President Obama says US prisons are tough enough for detainees

[ClarkUSA]

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama forcefully defended his decision to close the Guantanamo detention camp Thursday and said some of the terror suspects held there would be brought to top-security prisons in the United States despite fierce opposition in Congress.... "There are no neat or easy answers here," Obama said in a speech in which he pledged anew to clean up what he said was "quite simply a mess" at Guantanamo that he had inherited from the Bush administration... Obama noted that roughly 500 detainees already had been released by the Bush administration. There are 240 at Guantanamo now. The president said that 50 of those had been cleared... Obama conceded that some Guantanamo detainees would end up in U.S. prisons and said those facilities were tough enough to house even the most dangerous inmates.

Obama decried arguments used against his plans.

"We will be ill-served by the fear-mongering that emerges whenever we discuss this issue," he declared... He said opening and continuing the military prison "set back the moral authority that is America's strongest currency in the world."

"I can tell you that the wrong answer is to pretend like this problem will go away if we maintain an unsustainable status quo," Obama said. "As president, I refuse to allow this problem to fester. Our security interests won't permit it. Our courts won't allow it. And neither should our conscience."

[ShortnFiery]

1. I hope the "gutless wonders" in our Senate were listening to him today.

:(

[ClarkUSA]

2. They'd better have been and I hope they were taking notes on his words.

[Bankhead_ATL]

3. I think the people at then super-max prisons are much more worse then Gitmo folks

[HopeOverFear]

4. Damn right. Terrorist....meet Charles Manson

lol

[otohara]

5. Oh Nooooo - Senate Says Otherwise

Our big ass prisons are too wimpy to house creepy killers....no can't have that!

[ClarkUSA]

6. I have a feeling that Senate Democrats won't continue to do that.