Bringing Enemy Combatants To U.S. Is Ridiculous

Posted by: Staff in Strong National Defense on Mar 13, 2009 Print 

Senator Hatch says bringing enemy combatants to the U.S. is ridiculous. From Desert News:

Hatch Says Gitmo Should Keep Detainees

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, says it is "ridiculous" that President Barack Obama has ordered closure within a year of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba, and it may attract terrorist attacks if he sends the enemy combatants now held there to the mainland United States.

"Bringing these detainees to the continental United States is tantamount to injecting a virus into a healthy body," Hatch told the Senate in a long speech Thursday.

"Removing these detainees from a secure military facility with an airport, a highly trained security force, a secure infrastructure and located on an island outside the continental United States is, in my opinion, reckless," he said.

Hatch said many of the combatants once held there and released have returned to fight against the United States, including a former detainee now identified as the No. 2 leader of al-Qaida in Yemen -- who is believed to have planned an attack on a U.S. embassy there last year that killed 10 people.

Hatch said 245 enemy combatants are still held at Guantanamo, and said U.S. prisons are full and have no room for them. Also, despite well-publicized early problems, Hatch said recent reports indicate that treatment there is now humane and conditions exceed those of typical U.S. prisons.

Read more of Senator Hatch's speech.

Do you think we should bring terrorists to the U.S.?

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written by Charles Ashley Anderson, March 13, 2009
That is a an irresponsible and innacurate analogy, Orrin. We have these things called maximum security prisons, and they are crawling with people every bit as sick and virus-like as terrorists. This is transparent politically motivated fear-mongering. Scaring people with false analogies is like injecting a virus into a healthy body.
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written by Anna L. Johnson, March 26, 2009
What is going on right now in the Obama Presidency, is so illogical, and unworkable, and unsuccessful, and bringing those Terrorist's to the US is unrealistic. How can they be controlled, they will just get the other inmates in whatever prison they are sent to, and recruit them for their cause, and wow, rebellion and killings in the prison. THe one's that have beeen let out have proven their plans did not change. I am scared.
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written by Ethan, April 15, 2009
Senator Hatch, I don't think you understand what the plan is for these detainees.

Personally, I would welcome the Chinese Uigar detainees on my street in Midvale Utah.

I would be proud to have them as neighbors.


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