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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (804097)8/28/2014 3:21:58 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) of 1582941
 
Apples and pineapples, i-node. Many are campaign promises. Those tend to crumble when faced with reality. For example, closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay seemed a no-brainer. There was no predicting the number of Republicans and Democrats who would go apeshit over any attempt to do that. Funding was removed to relocate them to the US and the fact that many of their home countries didn't want them back made it very difficult to close it. For some, like the Chinese Uyghurs, we had reason to believe they had nothing to do with terrorism and if returned would be tortured or worse. So we wound up paying other countries to take them. It would have made sense to bring them to the US and try them in criminal courts. Just like we used to and other countries still do.
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