Obama may close Gitmo soon

Yes, it needs to be closed. There is no reason why we should have a permanent prison in any other country unless it is to avoid giving people their constitutional rights - which is unacceptable.

Gitmo needs to be closed for many reasons, the facility is outdated and serves no real purpose. Many of these prisoners were actually innocent tokens of war, but I guarantee you this - President Obama will not let the guilty prisoners go free. The guilty prisoners will serve their sentence upon the supreme court ruling.

I say it's about time! I don't think any decision has been made as to where the prisoners will go from there but since many of those at Gitmo are likely innocent I'd guess we have much more dangerous criminals already in our country. We can't have any credibility when we call for other countries to become democracies or when we preach about human rights as long as we still maintain a prison outside of the country where prisoners are detained indefinitely with no rights. Annie

The decision to close Gitmo is much more than the media and Mr. Obama would have us believe. Gitmo is a strategic military base. It's value is debatable, but that is not really what is being talked about here or in the media. It is not solely a prison camp. It has been portrayed that way but it has been a military base for us since 1898. It is the oldest naval military base we have. It must have a significant strategic value since it has weathered the base closing that we experience every time there are cuts in military spending. So the question is really two-fold. 1. Should we stop using the base as a military prison? And 2. Should we close the naval base? It seems that he is willing to sacrifice the strategic value of a military base to quell the negative public opinion of its use as a prison. That I think is wrong. If he must do something, remove the prisoners but keep the base.