Durbin's Quiet Gitmo Storm

[Vyan]

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Last week, just prior to hearings on the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo, Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) spoke out on the many problems our detention policy at Gitmo, proving the age-old axiom that no truly good deed goes unpunished.

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Many lawmakers have recently suggested the shutdown of Guantanemo, but this also ignores the true issue - which is the unlawful policy which was put into place by the Bush Administration under the false cover of the Gonzales-Bybee memos. We have to change the policy and bring it back into compliance with the U.S. Constitution and Geneva Conventions, not simply play a shell-game with the detainees moving them from one unlawful facility to another.

Certainly, we can do better than this.

Vyan

[Southsideirish]

1. I love Dick Durbin and 'am so proud he is my Senator. Durbin '08!

[libodem]

2. they have 30 million for halliburton to build a bigger

better one....with a medical bay...isn't that somehow incongrent...half kill them then send them in to get fixed up...what to half kill them again? I thought i heard something about a death chamber as well? I'm sick over this....30 million more going in to Halliberton's hands.....to perpetuate this disgrace