Guantanamo Bay Quotes

• Creo que lo que ocurre en Guantánamo y otros lugares es una vergüenza para EE.UU. No diría que es la causa del terrorismo, pero ha dado impulso y excusas a terroristas potenciales para arremeter contra nuestro país y justificar sus actos despreciables.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Thinking, Confusion

  "Carter: La guerra de Irak es 'injusta'". www.foxnews.com. 30 th Of July de 2005.

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• If people around the world knew how well people at Guantanamo Bay are treating prisoners, they would not fall prey to the accusations that some in our Chamber are making. They are all receiving judicial review.

  Robin Hayes

  Fall, People, Judicial Review

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• Many of the vicious criminals held there have been caught on the battlefield fighting against American troops and shutting down Guantanamo Bay would just require the military to move them elsewhere.

  Bill Shuster

  Military, Moving, Fighting

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• What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.

  Jimmy Carter

  Hurt, Mean, Thinking

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• Guantánamo alberga a combatientes enemigos que van desde entrenadores y reclutadores de terroristas hasta fabricantes de bombas, posibles terroristas suicidas y financiadores del terrorismo.

  Chris Chocola

  Suicidio, Casa, Enemigo

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• ...the facility at Guantanamo Bay is necessary to national security.

  Jeff Miller

  National Security, Facility, Guantanamo

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• Guantanamo Bay is the anti-Statue of Liberty.

  Thomas Friedman

  Liberty, Statues, Statue Of Liberty

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• With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.

  Justin Sane

  Men, President, Drones

  "Anti-flag's general strike is a soundtrack for occupied America" by Scott Thill, www.wired.com. March 29, 2012.

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• Remember when Obama was campaigning? Didn't he say he was going to close Guantanamo Bay? Didn't he say that? Apparently, he just meant for renovations.

  Jay Leno

  Remember, Renovation, Campaigning

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• Sources say the Obama administration is in the 'final stages' of planning the closing of Guantanamo Bay. The way it's gonna work is, they're going to put a Radio Shack sign out front and let nature take its course.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Finals, Radio, Way

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• Shouldn't the American leadership be addressing what is happening in America, with its domestic policies on racism, discrimination, illegal monitoring, solitary confinement, torture, Guantanamo Bay and any other social and political issues related to the American society not directly connected to Islam? American Muslims must speak out and be involved as well in international policies and, through their institutions, they should raise their voice. This is the way you serve the community.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Voice, America, Issues

  "Tariq Ramadan: My Absence Would Certainly Be The Most Powerful Speech I Have Ever Given At ISNA". Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 14, 2014.

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• When we remember presidents who didn't fulfill their promises - for instance George H.W. Bush saying no new taxes or Barack Obama saying he would close the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay - we remember those because they're the exceptions, not the rule.

  Evan Osnos

  Promise, President, Saying No

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• El cierre de Guantánamo no es una solución militar. El cierre de esa prisión, que apoyo, lo apoyé cuando estaba en el Senado, requiere algo más que una dimensión militar.

  Chuck Hagel

  Military, Support, Dimensions

  Fuente: www.wbur.org

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• From Iraq to Guantanamo Bay, international standards and the framework of international law are being given less when they should be given more importance. I am pleased that the courts in the United States are beginning to review what has happened to those detained in Guantanamo Bay. Similarly in Iraq we need to bring our strategies back within the framework of international norms and law.

  Mary Robinson

  Law, Iraq, Needs

  Fuente: www.opendemocracy.net

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• There had been a free and open election in Haiti in the early 1990s and president Jean-Bertrand Aristide won, a populist priest. A few months later came the expected military coup - a very vicious military junta took over, of which the United States was passively supportive. Not openly, of course, but Haitians started to flee from the terror and were sent back and on towards Guantanamo Bay. Of course, that is against International Law. But the United States pretended that they were "economic refugees."

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Law, President

  Fuente: thehumanist.com

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• Anyway, the [Barack] Obama administration took four years to say they weren't gonna do anything on George W. Bush. There were all kinds of people that wanted to prosecute him over the torture, quote, unquote, at Guantanamo Bay.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Years, People, Administration

  Fuente: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• To overcome extremism, we must also be vigilant in upholding the values our troops defend – because there is no force in the world more powerful than the example of America. That is why I have ordered the closing of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, and will seek swift and certain justice for captured terrorists – because living our values doesn't make us weaker, it makes us safer and it makes us stronger.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, America, Justice

  Primer discurso ante una sesión conjunta del Congreso, pronunciado el 24 de febrero de 2009

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• Closing the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is a promise President [Barack] Obama made it but has yet to fulfill.

  Audie Cornish

  Promise, President, Cuba

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• If we capture any of these ISIS killers alive, they are going to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and we're going to find out everything they know, because when I'm president, unlike Barack Obama, we will keep this country safe.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Isis, President

  Marco Rubio's speech at the main Republican Presidential debate hosted by Fox News and Google the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, www.nytimes.com. January 28, 2016.

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• Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay.

  Tom Lantos

  Europe, Auschwitz, Outraged

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• I performed for the U.S. troops in Guantanamo Bay. And signed autographs for people who've been gone from America for so long they didn't realize that I'm not famous.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Divertido, Humor, América

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• Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on terror, critics have complained of human rights abuses.

  Linda Chávez

  War, Iraq, Rights

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• I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.

  Hari Kunzru

  Rights, Trials, Records

  "Why I quoted from The Satanic Verses" by Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2012.

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• Creo que los Estados Unidos de América deben seguir siendo un abanderado en la conducción de la guerra. Eso es lo que nos diferencia de aquellos a quienes combatimos. Esa es la fuente de nuestra fuerza. Por eso prohibí la tortura. Por eso ordené el cierre de la prisión de Guantánamo. Y por eso he reafirmado el compromiso de Estados Unidos de cumplir las convenciones de Ginebra. Nos perdemos cuando comprometemos los mismos ideales que luchamos por defender.

  Barack Obama

  War, Believe, Commitment

  Discurso de aceptación del Premio Nobel de la Paz, pronunciado el 10 de diciembre de 2009 en el Ayuntamiento de Oslo (Noruega).

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• Ya no utilizamos Guantánamo para capturar a más terroristas. Era la instalación perfecta para extraer información de la gente y mantener a salvo al pueblo estadounidense.

  Michele Bachmann

  Perfect, People, Safe

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