Tuesday, April 30, 2013
“I don’t want these individuals to die”
Naturally President Obama doesn't want any of the Guantanamo hunger strikers to die, half of them have been cleared of any wrong doing and are still waiting, after years of political cowardice in Washington, to be released. So now he has sent reinforcements to Guantanamo to insure that they will be force fed in a procedure akin to torture.
As “medical reinforcements” of nearly 40 Navy nurses, corpsmen and specialists arrived at the Guantánamo Bay prison amid a mass hunger strike by inmates being held without trial, President Obama on Tuesday recommitted to his years-old vow to close the facility.The Guantanamo Concentration Camp was always a trap that George W Cheney deliberately walked this country into and their Republican/Teabagger allies in Congress have kept us in. Like the Cuban Embargo it serves no good and can't be removed because of Republican/Teabagger obstruction.
“It’s not sustainable,” Mr. Obama said at a White House news conference. “The notion that we’re going to keep 100 individuals in no man’s land in perpetuity,” he added, made no sense. “All of us should reflect on why exactly are we doing this? Why are we doing this?”...
Yet at another point in the news conference, Mr. Obama appeared to question the policy of indefinite wartime detention at a time when the war in Iraq has ended, the one in Afghanistan is winding down and the original makeup of Al Qaeda has been decimated. “The idea that we would still maintain forever a group of individuals who have not been tried,” he said, “that is contrary to who we are, contrary to our interests, and it needs to stop.”
But in the short term, Mr. Obama indicated his support for the force-feeding of detainees who refused to eat.
“I don’t want these individuals to die,” he said.
As of Tuesday morning, 100 of the 166 prisoners at Guantánamo were officially deemed by the military to be participating in the hunger strike, with 21 “approved” to be fed the nutritional supplement Ensure through tubes inserted through their noses.
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let them go or let them die---please do NOT keep them alive so they can remain in "enemy-combatant" limbo...
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