Guantánamo Closure Delayed

American Voices • Politics • terror • 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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