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49% Say U.S. Should Keep Guantanamo Prison Open
Nearly half of U.S. voters (49%) say the United States should not close the terrorist prison camp at Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba, but the identical number (49%) also say Barack Obama is Very likely to close it in the first year of his presidency. Only 32% of voters say the Guantanamo prison ...
Closing Guantanamo prison may be the easy part for Obama
Closing Guantanamo prison may be the easy part for Obama
latimes.com — Much harder will be sorting out the legal complexities of holding, prosecuting, transferring or releasing the roughly... 250 prisoners. > President-elect ... (more) Closing Guantanamo prison may be the easy part for Obama
A Letter From Prison
echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com — By a woman who was initially sentenced to like four lifetimes for running errands and wiring money... for her cousin's crack cocaine business: Her cousin was dealing crack cocaine at the time. While she never sold drugs, Lomax wired money and ran errands for him. He was arrested, and Lomax was ... (more) A Letter From Prison
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Only 32% Of Americans Want Guantanamo Bay Closed
Say Anything — ... But now it looks like Obama has problems with this particular campaign promise that go beyond the quandary above.  As it turns out, only 32% of Ameicans think Gitmo should be closed down. ...

Close Gitmo?
Weekly Standard Blog — Rasmussen reports: Nearly half of U.S. voters (49%) say the United States should not close the terrorist prison camp at Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba.... Only 32% of voters say the Guantanamo prison camp should be closed, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. One-out-of-five (19%) are undecided. The new findings mark a drop in support for the special prison camp for terrorists where the United States detains about 250 inmates. In a survey in late July, 59% said Guantanamo should be kept open, while ...

Barcepundit (English edition) — ... ONLY 32% of voters say the Guantanamo prison camp should be closed, according to a new Rasmussen survey.

Poll Watch: 75 Per Cent Oppose Release of Guantanamo Bay Prisoners in the United States
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... Sixteen percent (16%) think taxpayers should provide money to the inmates. Just 36% now agree with the president’s decision to close the prison camp for suspected terrorists at the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba. Forty-six percent (46%) oppose closing the prison camp, and 18% are undecided. This marks an eight-point drop in support for Obama’s decision since he announced it in late January when voters were almost evenly divided on the issue. Last November, only 32% thought the prison should be closed. ...

The votes are in: No Gitmo terrorists in our backyards
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... Welfare Program proposed by National Intelligence (?) Director Dennis Blair. Just 36% now agree with the president’s decision to close the prison camp for suspected terrorists at the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba. Forty-six percent (46%) oppose closing the prison camp, and 18% are undecided. This marks an eight-point drop in support for Obama’s decision since he announced it in late January when voters were almost evenly divided on the issue. Last November, only 32% thought the prison should be closed. ...

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