Guantánamo Closure Delayed

American VoicesPoliticsterror ISSUE 45•21 May 22, 2009

By a margin of 90-6, the Senate voted down funding to relocate the 240 inmates being held at Guantánamo Bay to facilities on American soil. What do you think?

  • “Maybe if we leave it open just one more week, we'll find out if they did it."”

    Martha DePrima –
    Systems Analyst

  • “You don't close a detention camp. You make it bigger and spikier."”

    Ulrich Schuknecht –
    Unemployed

  • “What a relief. Next to death and divorce, moving is the most painful thing in the world."”

    Dan Everson –
    Saddle Stitcher

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