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- Nov 07, 2020
Guantanamo Bay Quotes
A facility that split opinion.
Guantanamo Bay quotes here present both sides of a long-running argument: some voices call the facility essential to national security, others tie its continued operation to broader foreign policy failures. See the same tension explored in our Debate quotes.
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We will never win this war until we understand the effect that Guantanamo Bay has had on the overall war effort. And we'll never get the support of the American people if we can't prove to them that these folks that we're dealing with are not common criminals. We're going to keep them - keep you safe from them.
- Fronts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on terror, critics have complained of human rights abuses.
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I detail in my new book: 'Hard Measures, How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives,' there are many myths surrounding the detention of a relatively small number of top terrorists at CIA-run 'black sites' from 2002 until they were sent to Guantanamo Bay in 2006.
- National Security
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- Nov 07, 2020
Second, the facility at Guantanamo Bay is necessary to national security.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It troubled me that we had these reports of torture of detainees, we had people jailed at Guantanamo Bay who couldn't even talk to their lawyers and couldn't see the evidence against them - sort of fundamental bedrock civil liberties things.
- Majority
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- Nov 07, 2020
The overwhelming majority of Coloradans don't want Guantanamo Bay detainees in the United States or Colorado.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020