Guantanamo Bay Life after Bush

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Guantanamo Bay Life after Bush

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1DugsBooks
Editado: Nov 24, 2008, 11:13 am

I hope Obama empties GITMO quickly so he will have room for the executives from the banking, real estate and auto industry. Lets expropriate the possessions of those crooks, except for a used house trailer next to a dump, and let them be interrogated for five years to learn the true extent of their malfeasance.

Hundreds of billions of dollars to prop up the lifestyle of jerks who spent millions on lobbying against higher gas mileage standards, "accidentally" packaging bad loans into financial instruments to fawn off on banks whose execs. "had no way of knowing" the extent of "toxic" loans.

Ummmmm lest see, a decade or more experience in that specific area of the banking industry and salaries well in excess of $150k a year - how could they be to blame! How could they have had any idea that a wacko in California would start a hedge fund {betting against the obviously bad loans} that made $800 million off knowing what they were supposed to know?

I think a few years of making big rocks into little rocks in GITMO would create the atmosphere needed to suss out what happened.

2Lunar
Nov 17, 2008, 2:34 am

Don't become what you hate. Just close Guantanamo Bay.

3Jesse_wiedinmyer
Nov 17, 2008, 12:04 pm

Excellent advice.

4krolik
Nov 17, 2008, 1:25 pm

I'm eager for it to close down and have argued for years now in favor of closing. But it has to be said that it will not be a simple proposition. Who will be released, who will remain incarcerated, who will be tried, and how to view the evidence or testimony obtained in certain conditions, likely including torture, etc.--all these remain vexed questions.

I hope Obama will find a way for smooth symbolism. God knows we need it on this issue. But the particulars will be messy. No getting around it. One of the more toxic legacies of the Bush administration.

5DugsBooks
Editado: Nov 17, 2008, 4:31 pm

I forgot this is LT, One thing that set me off was seeing the author of The Shock Doctrine Naomi Klein rant on the cable TV show author's channel.

She explained that there were no oversights for the moneys use yet - that banks do not have to be transparent in the use of the money so far. She compared this to England where the guvment loaned out money with an expected return on investment and the industries who took the money had to accept several government appointees to their boards.

I lost a great deal of money { to me!!, a pittance to most folks I am sure} to ego tripping bank executives who drove down their banks stock price with self aggrandizing purchases & business deals. I am now so cross eyed mad I could spit.

This is a site for Ms Klein's opinion I do not know enough about her to say if she is liberal or conservative:

http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine

If you google her name you can find utube listings of many of her speeches. I have not read any of her books or seen any speeches other than the blurb that prompted this original post.

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