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Bush says shutting Gitmo not easy
WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush said on Thursday that shutting down the US “war on terror’ prison camp at Guantanamo Bay was not easy, but US officials were working to make it happen. He said the task of closing the camp was complicated because inmates’ home nations did not necessarily want them back, and noted delays in setting up trials for those who were incarcerated.
Not want them back? But they're innocent, solid citizens, Dick Durbin sez so!
“I did say it should be a goal of the nation to shut down Guantanamo. I also made it clear that part of the delay was the reluctance of some nations to take back some of the people being held there,” Bush told reporters. “This is a fairly steep order. A lot of people don’t want killers in their midst, and a lot of these people are killers.”

The president, in a White House news conference before heading to his summer vacation, said the sooner that tribunals could start for inmates of the camp “the better it is.” “It’s not as easy a subject as some may think on the surface.”
Posted by: Steve White 2007-08-10
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