Buffalo Boy's Blog

He's off to a great start. Closing Guantanamo Bay will do a few things: First it will save money. Second, it will eliminate that torture base that we have down there.

President Obama made a big statement today by signing the executive order to close Guantanamo. He essentially said there will be no more torture under this administration. No more water boarding or torture of any kind will be used to interrogate prisoners/terrorists in this country. That is because he knows that torture does not work.

I wonder if this is also a statement to George W. and Dick Cheney who have for all intensive purposes admitted to using torture, that we closed your play pen, now we are coming after you for ordering this kind of treatment.

By establishing a timeline for closure, Obama will insure that there is a plan in place to send prisoners to selected sites and what to do with whom. There are three kinds of prisoners, ones who they think are innocent, ones who are innocent but if they send them back to their home countries they will be killed or the ones they know are guilty and awaiting trial. Where do they put the guilty ones and what kind of trials will they put to? Will there have to be a special court?

Obama and his staff are well qualified to determine those things with Obama's law background so it will be interesting to see what takes place there.

Earlier on the radio I heard the jack ass Rush Limbaugh who was more concerned about his supposed business that he runs at some resort there at Gitmo. Apparently Rush has a line of apparel and collectables that he is now concerned about not being able to sell. Is he kidding? No mention of how good it is that it is closing because of all the torture has taken place there, its all about A#1 with Rushbo. He is so out of touch and so incapable of seeing reality.