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Related: About this forum19 retired U.S. generals, admirals back Hillary Clinton on closing GITMO
msprissy ?@mzprissy1947 7h7 hours ago19 retired U.S. generals, admirals back Clinton's stance on Guantanamo http://reut.rs/1Q5s3aU via @Reuters
A group of 19 retired U.S. generals and admirals on Thursday backed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's position on the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo and torture and called for an end to the "dangerous rhetoric" from her Republican opponents.
"The Republican candidates have turned this into a game to see who can seem toughest. Yet, how we combat our enemies and defeat ISIS is not a game, and these proposals would only make us weaker," the retired officers said in a statement, using an acronym for Islamic State, the militant group active in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere...
The retired officers said expanding the use of Guantanamo "is dangerous and has real negative consequences for our national security."
Expanding the use of torture, they said, would compromise global U.S. leadership and put American troops and civilians at risk.
"We applaud Hillary Clinton's leadership on these issues and call on the immediate end to the dangerous rhetoric coming from the right," the retired officers said.
read: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-clinton-military-idUSMTZSAPEC2P4IWTTX
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19 retired U.S. generals, admirals back Hillary Clinton on closing GITMO (Original Post)
bigtree
Feb 2016
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OMG Hillary is such a leader! I am floored and almost speechless. Go away, warmonger. nt
thereismore
Feb 2016
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thereismore
(13,326 posts)1. OMG Hillary is such a leader! I am floored and almost speechless. Go away, warmonger. nt
think
(11,641 posts)2. Good for Clinton to push to close Gitmo. It's way past due...
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)6. Close it or move it?
Does she want to close it, or just move it as Obama is proposing?
think
(11,641 posts)7. Obama is now proposing to move it? That sucks. I thought the whole point was to
Close it so we would no longer be considered torturers. I don't see how just moving it changes any of the optics....
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)8. It doesn't
I'm particularly frustrated over this because he campaigned on closing it. I don't think you'd find ANYONE that understood that this meant keeping all the prisoners, just someplace else.
oasis
(49,410 posts)3. Ringing praise for Hillary from some of our best military minds.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)4. And what did they have to say about the President?
You know - that skinny black guy named Obama that is in office for another year.
malthaussen
(17,217 posts)5. And who also wants to close Gitmo.
For that matter, so does Mr Sanders, IIRC. I guess neither of these is a "leader."
-- Mal