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Guantanamo? Step one - close prison...

andrewsw16andrewsw16 Member Posts: 10,728 ✭✭✭
edited July 2015 in General Discussion
First, he'll close the prison. Then, with the reduced mission there, he'll justify closing the base.

http://news.yahoo.com/white-house-final-stages-drafting-plan-close-guantanamo-184314453.html
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  • shilowarshilowar Member Posts: 38,811 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yes Sir, he will try to give it back. Question is will he undermine Democrats and do it before the election? If he waits and a Republican wins then he won't be able to it closed before the next president takes office. I imagine there will be quite a few folks in the Pentagon and Marines that will drag there feet on pulling out.
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  • Don McManusDon McManus Member Posts: 23,690 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    With the prison removed, which is inevitable, why shouldn't we close the base, cancel the lease and bring our boys home?
    Freedom and a submissive populace cannot co-exist.

    Brad Steele
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  • andrewsw16andrewsw16 Member Posts: 10,728 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Don McManus
    With the prison removed, which is inevitable, why shouldn't we close the base, cancel the lease and bring our boys home?

    Any of you current or former Navy or Marine guys have an answer for that? Besides the prison, what is the mission of Guantanamo? Do we truly need it? Valid questions. I don't have the answers.
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  • e8gme8gm Member Posts: 1,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Once the prison is gone, there won't be a mission for Gitmo. In days past the mission of the naval base was for refresher training for ship's crews. I was there in the mid 90's. Not much to do but drink beer and watch the iguanas.
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  • shilowarshilowar Member Posts: 38,811 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I prefer we kept it to the Russians moving in and setting up shop.
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  • Don McManusDon McManus Member Posts: 23,690 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by andrewsw16
    quote:Originally posted by Don McManus
    With the prison removed, which is inevitable, why shouldn't we close the base, cancel the lease and bring our boys home?

    Any of you current or former Navy or Marine guys have an answer for that? Besides the prison, what is the mission of Guantanamo? Do we truly need it? Valid questions. I don't have the answers.


    Did not go there when I was in the Navy, but always thought the mission was to be a thorn in the side of Fidel Castro. That mission, apparently, is over.

    Not that I would dare question Jack Nicolson, but being stationed on Gitmo was not really being a big part of that blanket of protection the USMC provides.
    Freedom and a submissive populace cannot co-exist.

    Brad Steele
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  • catgunguycatgunguy Member Posts: 6,089
    edited November -1
    I would agree to close it and be done.
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  • wpagewpage Member Posts: 10,201 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If relations are normalized let the Cubans run it...
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  • 11b6r11b6r Member Posts: 16,584 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Gitmo is a 45 square mile Naval base. One very small area is the prison. Nobody let's me sit in on the strategy meetings, but I would guess that control over the Caribbean is high on the list.

    One of our crews just got back from there Sunday- we do engineering for the Navy there. Gitmo has the only Mickey D's in Cuba.
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