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[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

If Congress says, very clearly, that federal money cannot be used to incarcerate or try these people in the United States, then the federal government cannot spend money on those things. That is what has happened. I happen to think that Congress is very, very wrong in its judgment, but we are stuck with the Congress we have, not the one we want.



Obama is stuck with a mess that President Bush created.* If you assume that the only people left at Guantanamo are those whom Obama would move to the US and try there, then I doubt that there's any international law that says he must free them.

Instead of kidnapping people, Obama is killing them with drones. I've already said that I think this is bad policy, but if you accept that he is killing people who are at war with the United States and who are otherwise outside our reach, I'm not sure it's illegal. Some big caveats there, though.

Wait, they are at war still? Then we can keep the others at Gitmo. Fuck sakes, sometimes I think I don't pay enough attention here, but the fact is the arguments are vapid.