Comments on: Is $100M Guantanamo Courthouse Necessary?

Pentagon's Plans For Another Facility To Try 60 People Are Questioned

[hvac1000]

Just pitch a tent. That is all they need.

[oleander8]

For 60 detainees??? What's wrong with a tent??

[talkingham]

Well, that's only $1.4-million per prisoner but of course that doesn't include court costs and the costs of prosecution. Heck, this was only exceeded on a per prisoner basis by what the repubs spent to track down Clinton's sexcapades. These repubs really have their act in gear and their priorities organizized.

Why not build a $200-million courthouse we don't want to be outdone by Iran or the Saudis.

[bluestardad]

Is haliburton in on this? it sounds too good to be true.

[rharrin1]

The answer is NO, we need to build a reservoir to stop this MONEY WATERFALL.

[randalds]

Good point grumpas. You know the people who should be the most angry at this administration are the true republicans. They got had even worse then the democrats who opposed them. This administration has dragged the conservative republican name through the filth by running up huge deficits. Real republican values are supposed to be about small government, low taxes (for everyone, not just the rich), no foreign entanglements, a balanced budget and staying out of peoples private business. True Barry Goldwater republican conservatives have been screwed by Bush and Cheney the past 6 years and Barry is no doubt spinning in his grave that they dare call themselves "conservatives" of any kind.

[randalds]

The only possible use I could see for this would be as a secure place to hold the war crimes trials of George W. Bush and his Nazi-want-to-be cronies.

[grumpas]

No doubt Bush has Halliburton in mind to build it! It will probably wind up being another rape of the American taxpayer by the time Bush's cronies get through f......it completely up! I hope I never hear another Republican say they are fiscally conservative! I am sick to death of the squander! These people should be in jail!

[meboard]

Yet another perfect example of how this terrorism business has snowballed into a self serving means to keep and use unchecked power.

[nadeau4201]

EVERYONE PLEASE LOOK UP
www.newswithview.com/Craig/roberts10.htm
It is were America is headed.

[blondmadison]

"I am confused why would a concentration camp need a courthouse??"
Posted by jerryomara at 03:54 AM : Dec 19, 2006

You are sooooooooooo right! Good blogs today!

[blondmadison]

"The fact that someone tried to rush this through in the dead of night shows that our %u201Cconservatives%u201D are not conservative at all when it comes to spending our money. This $100 million is a nice fat backdoor payback for someone. We need to find out who the benefactor is and who the beneficiary is and run them all out of town."
Posted by ObservantX at 09:08 AM : Dec 19, 2006

Brilliant deduction Watson and well said.

[blondmadison]

There are plenty of places to hold trials. $100 million? Soooo Not necessary and it doesn't take a brain surgeon to know this!

I am sick of these people taking the taxpayers money, lying and duping the tax payer---sick of it. This is beyond not having a conscience--to blatant, in the face B.S.

Will it really cost 100 Million or is some of that going in their pockets? It's hard to know due to constant continous lies.

[observantx]

The courthouse would sleep up to 1,200 people, there would be a dining facility for 800, and a garage big enough for 100 vehicles.

What IS this? A courthouse or a spa?

They have a courthouse now. It should be sufficient to handle 60 prisoners. End of story. The court house needs to be big enough top handle the judges, the lawyers, the prisoner, a couple of file clerks, translators, a maintenance man, security and a couple of gofers. We are talking about 20 people or less.

The fact that someone tried to rush this through in the dead of night shows that our %u201Cconservatives%u201D are not conservative at all when it comes to spending our money. This $100 million is a nice fat backdoor payback for someone. We need to find out who the benefactor is and who the beneficiary is and run them all out of town.

[houser123]

Can anyone spell special interest payback? How can someone in our government who has any conscious try to push through such an ill conceived and wasteful "Emergency Appropriation" bill in the middle of the night when no one is supposedly watching. I don't care if these guys are supposed to be the worst of the worst, that's even more reason to not give them the type of accomodations that someone is saying is needed. Geez, these people never cease to astonish me, the next thing they will ask for is to build a
$1,000,000,000 apparatus to execute these guys. Has this administration totally sold out to special interest?

[tnichlsn]

They might want to use that money building a new 'high-end' prison in the Hague, because that's where the real criminals of this war (Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld) will be tried and sentenced.

[msdawhip]

Why not come to Oklahoma City instead? We have an empty GM plant right next to a large Air Force base and we have already experienced terrorism first-hand from a U.S. citizen. The building also survived minimal damage from a killer tornado. Surely the Feds could learn something from a few episodes of a house-flip show and put walls up at the plant for less than a million bucks...

We recently read the military needed equipment in Iraq, but there was not enough money to buy what they needed. Now, we have money to build a courthouse? We have a perfectly good courthouse here in Kansas, they can try 2 criminals at a time, and it won't cost money that the middle class American can't afford to lose. How about it?

[gramto7]

ncolsens,
Please ask him to try to keep Haliburton's hands off the deal!
I just do not believe that this 'courthouse' will ever be used as such. Most likely, these detainees will never see a court of any sort. They will simply be held indefinitely, or possibly they will be sent to another country who will look into the matter and find there was no reason to hold them to start with.

I have a friend that works in the Pentagon, his job is purchasing, procurement, and contracting, I'll have to call him on this one to see who is trying to line their pockets with these contracts