Carter: Close down Guantanamo

[sabra]

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Carter: Close down Guantanamo

Associated Press
Published on: 06/07/05

Former President Jimmy Carter on Tuesday called for the United States to shut down its Guantanamo Bay prison to demonstrate the country's commitment to protecting human rights.

"Despite President George W. Bush's bold reminder that America is determined to promote freedom and democracy around the world, the U.S. continues to suffer terrible embarrassment and a blow to our reputation as a champion of human rights because of reports concerning abuses of prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo," Carter said in a news conference following a two-day human rights conference at his Atlanta center.

In addition to closing Guantanamo Bay and two dozen other secret detention facilities, the former president said the United States needs to make sure no detainees are held incommunicado and that they all be told the charges against them.

His other recommendations included that the United States stop transferring detainees to foreign countries where torture has been reported and that an independent commission be created to investigate where terrorism suspects are held in U.S. custody.

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[proud patriot]

1. Right on Jimmy Carter

:D

[merwin]

16. Carter must hate America. How dare he question the authority of

Commander Cuckoo Bananas!

[DemoTex]

2. The country's commitment to protecting human rights?

The Bu$h regime's only commitment is to protecting corporate profits and wealth. Careful Jimmy, you might offend Mr. Cheney.

[Lerkfish]

3. you go, big guy!

dang I wish we had a president like him right now

[Horse with no Name]

4. God bless former President Carter

A man who doesn't have to bloviate his image of being a Christian.
His deeds say it much louder than words ever could.

I wonder if Iran ever wishes they could "do over" the hostage situation and how it gave us Reagan?
Then Reagan beget Bush, et al.
Now look at us today.

[pookieblue]

5. Take that George.

this is coming from some who has won the Nobel Peace Prize. something that YOU will never see.

[joeljkp]

15. He was nominated

Bush was nominated for the NPP last year, actually.

[indepat]

6. Human rights, schuman rights: Rummy et al want their pounds of flesh and

they ain't gonna listen to some freaking pantie-waisted bleeding-heart liberal like Jimmy Carter.

[jobycom]

7. Proving again why Carter is the voice of America's better half. nt.

[ckramer]

8. Now that's credibility

Carter has it!

[Pacifist Patriot]

9. Now there is a good man.

[Zorbuddha]

10. A voice of reason. A legitimate leader

with genuine vision and integrity.

Shows how far we've slipped down the slope of Neocon madness.

Stark illumination of our modern Dark Age.

Give 'em hell, Jimma.

[Solly Mack]

11. Closing it is only a start...prosecution must be a part of it

Prosecuting the government is the ONLY thing that will "demonstrate the country's commitment to protecting human rights."

[tsuki]

12. Go, Jimmy!

[tom_paine]

13. Poor Jimmy thinks he's still in the Old USA

It would be laughable if it wasn't so tragic.

Carter would be correct...if the country in question was the Old United States of America.

But it isn't. And Imperial Amerika is all about torture and corruption and about kicking anyone's ass who gets in the way.

Considering that, Carter's comments are anachronistic and speak to a country now gone into the pages of history,

[saltpoint]

14. If a recipient of the Nobel Peace prize told me to close something

I would by god CLOSE it.

Hurray for President Carter.

[donheld]

17. Carter's right

Bush will never listen, but he's destroying our reputation.

[Karenina]

18. Shut down the gulag

and vacate the island.

[Supersedeas]

19. the Nobel Prize Winner takes a stand against the Corporate Man of the Year

[David Zephyr]

20. KICK! BIGGEST STORY OF THE DAY!

PRESIDENT CARTER SHOWS DEMOCRATS HOW TO LEAD.

:toast:

[Greyskye]

21. Go Jimmy Go!

This is what a truly "Christian" President is like! :yourock:

[olddad56]

22. But Jimmy, they have no commitment to human rights....

Eventually they will have to make Gitmo larger, and build the ovens. It will take a lot of room to temporarily house the remaining democrats when 'the time' comes. Buy stock in 'Soy-lent Green'.

[hootinholler]

23. This is HUGE!

A former President speaking against a currently sitting administrations policy. When has that happened before?

-Hoot

[Pachamama]

24. Wonder what Bill Clinton has to say about Gitmo?

:shrug:

Think he has the cajones to speak out and stand up against Bush on this and agree and side with Carter?

Oh yeah...what about Babs now calling Clinton "son"? :eyes:

[Lochloosa]

25. Kick for the last truely Christian President we have had...

met him at a book signing. Impressive man and that twinkle in his eyes made you want to sit on a front porch with a cold glass of ice tea and talk away the sunset....

[Supersedeas]

30. a white male Christian takes a stand against Authority!!!

[doxieone]

26. President Carter Urges Closure of Gitmo

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0506080245jun08,1,2506428.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed

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"The U.S. continues to suffer terrible embarrassment and a blow to our reputation . . . because of reports concerning abuses of prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo," Carter said after a two-day human-rights conference at his Atlanta center.

Carter mentioned President Bush's "bold reminder that America is determined to promote freedom and democracy around the world," but also suggested that U.S. officials' comments had set the tone for mistreatment of detainees.

"I'm convinced that these abuses have been caused by public statements and secret statements now made public in which U.S. officials denied the applicability of the Geneva Conventions," Carter said.

"Every guard should know that the Geneva Conventions will apply," he said.

[Inland]

27. Time to end the Bush imperial domain, since he won't surrender any control

where his word is the only law. Enough of this legal fiction of something that Bush has legal control over but no laws apply. It's going to take just ending it since Bush won't allow any other authority outside the chain of command to even know what's going on.

[CottonBear]

28. Jimmy Carter is a great American. We need more men and women like him.

He has been treated with absolutely no respect by Bu$h (RE: Pope funeral).

I am proud that Jimmy Carter is a fellow Georgian. He is a true Christian who lives his beliefs. Just look at his work for Habitat for Humanity and the work of the Carter Center: programs for worls peace, election reform and control of diseases like river blindness.

[kentuck]

29. That would be a good start....

but only a start.