Guantanamo Quotes

• ...the facility at Guantanamo Bay is necessary to national security.

  Jeff Miller

  National Security, Guantanamo Bay, Facility

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• Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers, would-be suicide bombers, and terrorist financiers.

  Chris Chocola

  Suicide, House, Enemy

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• I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Thinking, Confusion

  "Carter: Iraq War is 'Unjust'". www.foxnews.com. July 30, 2005.

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• What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.

  Jimmy Carter

  Hurt, Mean, Thinking

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• Many of the vicious criminals held there have been caught on the battlefield fighting against American troops and shutting down Guantanamo Bay would just require the military to move them elsewhere.

  Bill Shuster

  Military, Moving, Fighting

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• If people around the world knew how well people at Guantanamo Bay are treating prisoners, they would not fall prey to the accusations that some in our Chamber are making. They are all receiving judicial review.

  Robin Hayes

  Fall, People, Judicial Review

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• 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.

  Justin Sane

  Men, President, Drones

  "Anti-flag's general strike is a soundtrack for occupied America" by Scott Thill, www.wired.com. March 29, 2012.

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• 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.

  Linda Chavez

  War, Iraq, Rights

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• It's true that I have not been able to completely close Guantanamo, but we've drastically reduced the population from 700 or so to around 60 now.

  Barack Obama

  Population, Able

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I met Muslim immigrants in Brooklyn who were swept up in 9-11 raids, held in abusive conditions, beaten, denied rights. That's how things started in Germany. Guantanamo was modeled after what Stalin developed for the Gulag.

  Naomi Wolf

  Rights, Germany, Brooklyn

  "Naomi Wolf Thinks the Tea Parties Help Fight Fascism -- Is She Onto Something or in Fantasy Land?". Interview with Justine Sharrock, www.alternet.org. March 29, 2010.

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• Guantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape, while at the same time providing us with valuable intelligence information on how best to proceed in the war against terror and prevent future attacks.

  Jim Ryun

  War, Risk, Information

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• The Democrats in the Senate adopted a resolution, an amendment, saying that there should be no Guantanamo detainees brought into this country. So, more and more, we're finding the American people on one side, the ACLU and the troglodytes from the New York Times on the other, where they belong.

  Peter King

  Country, New York, Finding The One

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• Liberals believe in burning the American flag, urinating on crucifixes, and passing out birth control pills to 11-year-olds without telling their parents -- but God forbid an infidel touch a Quran at Guantanamo.

  Ann Coulter

  Believe, Years, Parent

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• Guantanamo Bay is the anti-Statue of Liberty.

  Thomas Friedman

  Liberty, Guantanamo Bay, Statues

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• I performed for the U.S. troops in Guantanamo Bay. And signed autographs for people who've been gone from America for so long they didn't realize that I'm not famous.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Humor, America

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• The only subject fewer authentic Americans cared about than the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo was World Cup Soccer. America is an epic global battle with ruthless savages who seek our destruction, and liberals are feeling sorry for the terrorists.

  Ann Coulter

  Soccer, Sorry, Epic

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• We're going to be really ashamed of ourselves when this whole story about Guantanamo comes out. Guantanamo is a really depraved place.

  Seymour Hersh

  Stories, Ashamed, Depraved

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• Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets.

  Judith Butler

  Rights, Links, Way

  "Weapon of the Strong: Conversations on US State Terrorism". Book by Jon Bailes and Cihan Aksan, November 27, 2012.

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• I think you have to repudiate torture and I think you have to end what's going on at Guantanamo and you have to live up to American values. Basically you restore - what the American dream brought to the world stage was respect for the individual and the idea that people aren't pawns that rulers can push around but they have rights.

  Wesley Clark

  Dream, Thinking, Rights

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• The important thing here to understand is that the people that are at Guantanamo are bad people. I mean, these are terrorists for the most part. These are people that were captured in the battlefield of Afghanistan or rounded up as part of the Al Qaeda network. We've already screened the detainees there and released a number, sent them back to their home countries. But what's left is hard core.

  Dick Cheney

  Country, Mean, Home

  "Guantánamo Detainees Are 'Bad People', Says Cheney". www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2005.

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• My legislation would cut off all funding for trials of anyone from Guantanamo in any court in the United States of America. This bill would help stop the misguided plan to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 terrorists on trial in Downtown Manhattan.

  Peter King

  Cutting, America, United States

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• An institution like Guantanamo in its present form cannot and must not exist in the long term. We must find different ways of dealing with prisoners. As far as I'm concerned there's no question about that.

  Angela Merkel

  Long, Way, Different

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Sources say the Obama administration is in the 'final stages' of planning the closing of Guantanamo Bay. The way it's gonna work is, they're going to put a Radio Shack sign out front and let nature take its course.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Finals, Radio, Way

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• Even if you are a liberal in the Muslim world, when you see Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and you see all the other reports of abuses by American forces, it's very hard to get up and say, "We should simulate the American ways," because this is the face of America now in the Muslim world, for many Muslims.

  Yaroslav Trofimov

  America, Abuse, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Here's the bigger problem with all this, we're not interrogating anybody right now. Guantanamo's being emptied by this president. We should be putting people into Guantanamo, not emptying it out, and we shouldn't be releasing these killers who are rejoining the battlefield against the United States.

  Marco Rubio

  People, President, United States

  Marco Rubio's speech at the eighth Republican presidential primary debate hosted by ABC News at the St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, www.cbsnews.com. February 6, 2016.

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