Yes! Finally! I'm glad that Gitmo will be closed. It was truly a horror that shouldn't exist in America. We will not, at least, start to renew our standing in the world.

Pure fantasy – applied to most unfortunate reality.

Suggestion: Watch the video again – of the two planes hitting the towers.

Calm your initial emotion or anger, and then think with your common sense - to the fact to the Gitmo process with vast CIA, military, and UN resources used in searching out and catching Al Qaeda, and Taliban criminals, who kill without thought or care – all kinds of good people worldwide (NY-Bali-Turkey-London-Madrid+ ((edited)). Pretend for a moment that you were a part of the history, the reasons, the facts of why each person is truly there, and/or a family member of those murdered.

Now, with that sunk in a bit (hopefully), pretend to have any gratitude to the many thousands of good, smart, intelligent US people we asked and pleaded for us all in their working for 8 years to bring these people out of their harmful networks causing harm, to a safe place not in our own neighborhoods (once was enough ehh?).

So with that said, don't you have some doubts to the simple thought "Gitmo bad – must close and free them"?
Does it only take simple anti-Bush campaign marketing ploy by Democrats to help a good man be President. If yes, then a good man can also admit to us all (in his pronouncement of good honest transparency) that there is no plan, and may be no plan, on what to do with these people after his naive campaign team reviews the hard work and fact to the criminals there. We may not like bad things in this world, but simply wishing them away is tantamount to a child cracking the door for bed time to not be so dark, so he won't have to think of the boogie man.

So we know the facts; evil people do exist, we caught some of them , we don't want them within miles of our homes free. And today, Gitmo is the place they now reside. Please have a genuine solution of new locale for these people first (not last as a lame afterthought fantasyland), as otherwise it's all just words and campaign hoopla and unintelligent promises.
Or just leave your light on when you go to bed, and leave the boogie men to those fearless enough to face them, hunt them down, and keep them away from you.

All international American derived prisons should close and the International community needs to come together to create a NATO type prison to hold terrorists because terrorists are worldwide, in every country, and the whole world is fighting them. As Americans, we should have the rights to prosecute those involved in 9-11 right here. As for them operating from our soil; clearly they've demonstrated they do operate on our soil, they're here, they've been here, and especially now that the Bush admin has made the situation more dangerous I think we need to move quickly to clean up the whole mess. As for the issue of torture in general, I am sad that people ever thought they were correct in tossing out our honor, pride, dignity, and loyalty. The years of diplomacy so critical to our purpose seems to have been tossed out and replaced with hatred. But isn't hatred part of what we are fighting against?

Are you on drugs? What's wrong with you media types? of course torture occurred there

We already have some proof that a portion of the people being held at Gitmo were SOLD (for lack of a better word!) into confinement to collect money from the U.S. Some of those people were entirely innocent of any wrong-doing–they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time, and got caught-up in the dragnet. Some of them were almost babies at the time they were incarcerated.

How many of them will hold grudges and try to kill Americans if they are set free? I don't know. But two wrong don't make a Right.

If I'd been sold into incarceration without having committed a crime, sent to a foreign land, not allowed to talk to my family, tortured, not allowed to have an attorney... who knows what I would do if I were set free? But we have no right to jail them for the rest of our lives, just because we incarcerated them, abused them, and violated their civil and moral rights and now fear they might hate us.

If they hate us, and come after us, who's fault is that? It's OURS. So we have no one to blame for their future behavior but all of us, because WE LET IT HAPPEN AND LET IT GO ON, AND ON, AND ON!

Unless we can prove that they were guilty of something illegal or detrimental to Americans BEFORE they were snatched up, we have NO RIGHT to deprive them of their future liberties.

Think about how YOU would feel if this had happened to YOU.

I think closing Gitmo is going to comeback to bite Obama. My case in
point.

#1 What do you do with the prisoners ?

a) Release them so they come back & attack us again like 9/11 or
rejoin their terrorists buddies.
Obama would be really dumb to do that.

b) Send them to Europe or some friendly country that will take them.
That would cost us more tax paying money to transfer them & wouldn't
be any different than leaving them at Gitmo.

c) Transfer them to U.S. prisons
That would cost us more tax paying money & then they would all
have rights to fight it out in court & more than likely be beaten or
killed by U.S. convicts anyway. Which would cost us even more tax paying money to give them extra security so that doesn't happen.
Obama would be dumb to do that.

d) Leave them at Gitmo.
This seems to be the only wise choice.
Obama would be smart to do that.

I would like to know exactly why these people were brought all the way to Cuba to be held in that way. Who exactly are these people, where are they from, what did they do. It looks bad for the United States for all the reason's of torture and who know's what else. I believe other countries do not want them so what's the solution? It seem's to be our problem and with nobody out there to help us with it. If Gitmo is our only solution then let them stay there we sure don't want them here in the states do we? I think right now this is not a top priority for our country let's think about fixing our economy and getting people back to work let's think AMERICA first!

In my humble opinion, it was absolutely necessary to announce the closing of Gitmo on the first days of the new abministration. The closing had to be announced before Hillary Clinton or any of her staff could effectively use the powers of diplomacy or the management of international relations from a position of decency and morality. It is, indeed, very difficult to ask other countries and peoples to practice and enforce Human Rights when you are, yourself, torturing people. The problem of "what to do with the 245 inmates at Gitmo?" is minor compared to the effectiveness of international negotations and will certainly be resolved in the next twelve months. International negotations cannot wait twelve months.

Not being a party person but they, Republicans, had 8 years to fix things and all they did was make it worse. Instead of balking and not willing to make changes, we need some changes now. A Top Republican Leader should offer suggestions / compromises versus partisan statements. As an example, John A. Boehner, a Republican U.S. representative from Ohio, is the House minority leader in the 110th Congress. He is a strong free-market conservative, he has been criticized for his ties to lobbyists. In 1996, for example, there was an uproar after he handed out checks from a tobacco-affiliated PAC to colleagues on the House floor. He is now trying to make a name for himself. We don't need that now but instead we need cooperation and assistance. Oh by the way, why didn't the previous Congress challenge and ask for details on the bailout money before they gave it the financial sector? They had their chance and they mess it up so suck in pride and help and be positive or be quite.

Rick, I really enjoy your show. However, it is time to give "President Obama" the proper respect that he has earned. While I hope that this is just a error, please try hard to call him by his proper name. "President". He has worked to hard to earn this title. It's just like someone going to school for eight to ten years, to receive their PHD, and you not refer to them as Dr. It is an insult to there hard work . I hope that you understand the urgency in this matter. Thanks, Maurice

it deepens on where they are placed, not in the USA I hope!!

Citicorps new plane will have a range of 6000 miles without refueling. I pulled ouot all of the charts and have tried to determine exactly where they will be headed when they take off with the rest of our money.

citi just doubled my APR on a fixed rate credit card,can they get away with that? If so I guess I helped pay for that airplain twice!

what in the world is going on, ,just came back from costa rica and citi bank just bought out banks in costa rica

Rick, it is time to stop feeding this torture/war crimes thing. It only encourges the kooks out there. There is no proof that there was any torture committed by our troops at Gitmo.

Who cares about what people think of us in the world! If we are such a bad Country why do all these people want to come of America and the others who sneak in across our borders. The people that hate us now will always hate us!!

Suggesting charging Bush with war crimes for Gitmo interrogation techniques would be just as insane as someone suggesting charging each soldier with murder. Where does it stop? We are on a slippery and crazy slope.

I think the biggest threat to America was Bush himself...!!!

As a disabled autoworker I am appalled that congress raked the heads of the big three automakers when they asked for help[, but the banks and others that recieved TARP funds can do as the please.

Give the President the year they projected. Okay from a PR viewpoint they could have done better.

Richard Ackermann
http://www.realtimeshoppingmall.com

Bush was a one man wrecking crew who left this country far worse off than what he found when he first came in and was clearly not fit for the job. I am mad as hell until that megalomaniac is in handcuffs and carted off for war crimes, murder 1, and crimes against humanity and held to pay for no less than any one of us would be for what we do. For Republicans who beat the drum about taking responsibility for your actions, should be demanding accountability. We all should. That fact will forever be a festering cancer on the office of the Presidency and the American people, and why this open infected wound must be cleansed..

Otherwise all this stuff about us being a nation of laws and not men with no granting of titles of nobility is bunk and makes us look like the foolish hypocrites that we clearly are.

If that’s how you want it then fold your tent and take down the American flag because it no longer represents the honor and integrity that was once the yard stick upon which we measured out stature.

What is wrong with you? I am watching this interview with a UN special investigator making all of these claims without any specific evidence. You did not hold him to task. This is shoddy journalism and you should be ashamed of yourself.

Citigroup not only got money from citizens via the gov't, it started charging higher interest rates and higher monthly payments. Example: my APR more than doubled and the payment $65.00. Their resonse changed for reason of higher payments. They are receiving money from their customers in more than one direction.

I'm watching the interview with Manfred Nowak from the UN. This isn't an interview – this is Rick Sanchez and CNN pushing their agenda and trying to paint the picture that the Bush administration has undoubtedly tortured. Despicable. Where's the fairness?

I am not a fan of Pres. Bush, however if torture was used to get information to secure our country after 9/11 then that is the way it should be. It has been stopped now. Leave it alone. Bush nor Rumsfeld should be punished for protecting us. These people are criminals and whatever was done to get information from them to protect our country should have been done. It is what it is. These terrorist should be punished for war crimes.

Really?! Do we really want to go back and see who is responsible for torture? How far back? Let's try the Civil War and work our way up.

Manfred Noak, who appeared on your show, is a jackass.

You have far greater instances of torture taking place throughout the world in arab and african countries to keep Noak busy for the rest of his life.

Arguing that either President Bush or Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld should be prosecuted was used solely as a vehicle to get on your show.

The jackass even referred to the "so-called War against Terror". What a pompass idiot. It is people like Noak which are the reason why diplomacy will never succeed when dealing with lunatics.

I just listened to your phone guest about investigating criminal investigations of torture. How about the UN investigate those who cut people's heads off?

I think they should check Rushe's nite table for some missed drug's!!Talk about an extremist!!

REGARDING THE STIMULUS PACKAGE, IF THE POLITICIANS REALLY WANT TO HELP HOMEOWNERS, WHY NOT GIVE EVERY HOUSEHOLD IN AMERICA $100,000 TO PAY ON THEIR MORTGAGES? THE BANKS WOULD GET MONEY AND MANY HOMEOWNERS WOULD HAVE NO MORTGAGES, THEREBY ENABLING THEM TO PURCHASE AUTOS, TV'S ETC. THE $350 BILLION WOULD TAKE CARE OF THE PROBLEM.

I would close it today as a symbolic global gesture. It is clear we have much of the world on the side of humane treatment of the worst kind enemy combatants. I would simply ask our allies who are serious about keeping terror at a minimum in their country to take few. I don't know if you can stop a person from joining a group. I would re socialize them before I sent them back into the world. I would close that place now and destroy the buildings on CNN live. I feel the honorable global citizen would try to end terrorism and out these guys if we did this action.

They should go after Bush and then explain the War again to us?

i think the media has become a discusting place, mostly those on cnn who bash bush, and elevate obama to a god status. people think he is an african american, that is true his father was from africa. but they never were americans. his family never suffered through slavery, and he was very privledge growing up, going to private schools, and the best colleges in the country. why do blacks believe that he knows how they feel...obama is sneaking and distrustful...the dems better watch thier backs.

For the life of me, I cannot understand why you give Rush Limbaugh the TIME OF DAY! The man loves it when he is quoted! Surely CNN is above this quality of mankind!
Rick, I think you are smarter than to deal with his kind!

Mecia Crutcher

Rick – I have been listening to your coverage of the "torture" at Gitmo by the American authorities with interest.

I wonder why there is no discussion or "news analysis" on the enemy who sliced Americans throats and hung them from a bridge. Does the United Nations have no interest in this?

You work really hard to get the guests on your program to implicate Ex-President Bush – why not expend a little effort on the other players. I find it hard to believe that President Bush merits more coverage than Osama Bin Laden on these subjects.

Bobby Alford

If you would like to learn a complete explanation of Limbaugh's comments from Limbaugh himself you need to tune to Fox New's Hannity. I watched the segment with Limbaugh and Hannity and he explained his comments completely and thoroughly. Why don't you drive by that one

I honestly hope that both Bush and Rumsfeld are prosecuted for war crimes. The evidence that has already been made public through the media suggests Bush and Rumfeld knew that they were authorizing torture in direct violation of the Geneva Convention. US troops risk their lives every day and one of the few protections our soldiers have is the protection against torture as set forth by the Geneva Convention. When the Bush administration authorized torture they not only violated international humanitarian law but they put US troops at risk.

Rick, if you could tell me how Limbaugh escaped any prosecution himself about the Oxycontin addiction and his illegal alien help in his mansion? If it were me I would be looking at 20 years to life. For him to judge ANYONE is a travisty. Thank You

gitmo, why close it..i will tell you as a mother of a soldier, they torture. behead and kill our men and women...why sould we let them off easy if we can get information that will save thousands of lifes...get real..or lets just see how you feel when one of your children are beheaded in front of the world,, and it could have been prevented just by waterboarding someone...

Gitmo should be closed already due to Bush's horrible presidency. I think Obama's plan of closing down Gitmo is a great idea because those muslims are innocent people who did not do any thing that is related to 9/11.

Dear Rick: Yes, we absolutely must address the crimes of the Bush administration. Of course we can always side step the application of justice, but at a cost: we can never again say that "no one in America is above the law" with any real meaning again. And don't think the world won't notice, they always notice!

Wow, this to me is unbelievable, I never thought our government would get itself back together, but in all honestly, it looks like we are on our way. Gitmo closing. This is a huuuge deal, this means that the facility is closing for only a few reasons, one of which is the possibilty of it being an illegal camp. Yea, didnt hitler do things like this, or similar to this?? This is not right. Which leads me to belive of the other possibilty.... prosecuting bush for war rimes, or at the very least illegal detention of foreign civilians, and using excessive force/torture on said civilians. We are a country again, LIFE, LIBERTY, AND JUSTICE FOR ALL, YES MR. BUSH, WE'LL GIVE YOU A SMALL PIECE OF JUSTICE TOO, ITS THE ONLY THING YOU DESERVE.

Regarding Rush;
Your are right on in my opinion about your reporting. I have seen you put all sides on notice, fairly and impartially.
Rush is exibiting the exact character that we "liberals" see in "conservatives" with ranting and blaming the "media" for getting them misrepresented. He, in my opinion, is doing some of the antics that I feel have helped to aggravate the conservatives into behaving as lunatics when they feel their statis in life is threatened.
How immature!!

Rick, I am CEO of the social media company in DC. We have a call with the head of your site discussing our technology and how it will increase user interaction on cnn.com. The purpose of my email, I just wanted to let you know I have been watching your program everyday. I doubt I have been missing any of them. YOU ARE THE MAN! As for Joe the moron or Rush, just ignore him. He is no body anymore. You are much greater than wasting your time on them. Keep up the good work. Regards Elias

IT WILL BE THE WRONG THING FOR OBAMA TO CLOSE GUARANAMO BAY, YES THOSE PRISONERS SHOULD BE TORTURED WHEN THEY HARM AMERICANS. MR BUSH DID THE RIGHT THING. WE DONT WONT THOSE PRISONERS IN OUR BACKYARD TO HARM OUR PEOPLE AND CHILDERN.

President Obama would be a fool to investigate Bush on war crimes. These animals behead people for fun, then put it on the net!!

Bush did what he needed to do to keep us safe!!

Dear Mr. Sanchez,

I listened to your program today. Here you are wishing for our country to prosecute Mr. Bush for allegations of torture.

Let me remind you that someone that you are familiar with, Mr. Fidel Castro, has not only tortured prisoners and citizens of Cuba, but also had them killed (Murdered).
Murder requires certain elements including malice aforethougth.

I'll leave you with one question, what do you think one of the prisoners
at the GITMO prison would do to you given that opportunity?

Edwin Cruz MD

It's a sad time for the U.S.,when democrats hate republicans so much that they want to bring war crime charges against the Bush administration. The far left thinks waterboarding is cruel(which doesn't kill anyone},but they are all for aboration at anytime{which does kill] at least the unborn are inocent of trying to kill us. More than I can say for the terrorists at Gitmo

Did I always agree with Bush/Cheney... absolutely not. However I
am tired of hearing about mistreatment by the liberal, humanist,
democratic establishment. I do know that someday the will be
grudgingly exhonorated. Wait until all those above mentioned
are faced with some of the issues of the last eight years.,how things
look then. As for GITMO, although there were mishaps in that arrangement, I sometimes wonder if these bleeding hearts comprehend who we are dealing with or are they unable to grasp??? OR has hatred for Bush rendered them
so stupid they cannot see the danger? Let's just wait and see how
the new administration will be able to stand in the coming storm,

hey jerry what the heck, are soldiers are tortured, and killed. i would guess you are a non military family...the torture to our troops are real, and no one seams to want to hold the other side accountable..just you bush haters.

The more I hear about Libaugh the angrier I become. That fat assed bastard. I would love to find him alone for 5 minutes on his way back from the drug store. There would be nothing but air on his microphone for many months to come. It's hard to talk with no teeth!!

Regarding the economy. First time homebuyers from April 08 to July 09 can receive a $7500 intrest free loan when they file their taxes. The loan is to be paid back $500 per year for the next 15 years. Each year when they file taxes they pay back $500.
Why can the government give that to every tax payer. That would stimulate the economy!

By accident scanning through the TV channels I heard you tell a female on your show about Rush Limbaugh's comment on "Obama Failing" . As a newsman you should report full news not just your opinion. You quoted Mr. Limbaugh out of context. In order to disagree with another you have an obligation to report his full statement. Which was concerned with Obama's policies not the man.

Rick,

I've watched you for most of the last year. You seem to have progressed from a relatively objective journalist to an extremely subjective commentator with very visible personal bias'. You no longer report facts...you sensationalize and slant. Your current story on torture is a perfect example. As I write this you seem to be trying to put words in the mouth of the UN official you are interviewing to sensationalize the story and demonize the Bush administration. When did you become a "spin doctor" for the far left?

William C. Turpin

we wont get through 09 before obama decides to raise taxes, so you all better hold on...

rick why is it that cnn is so pro-obama, you guys make him out to be the messiah, you guys will even justify him appointing a tax evader to run the irs, you all seem like smart people, whats up with that? i think cnn needs to stop drinking the obama kool aid and get back to equal reporting

Rick, I love your stuff, but why on earth are you giving that fat louffe RL any credence? By now you should know the ass is a scratched record! He's always had only one agenda, himself. His reason for saying that the liberal agenda needs to fail is because he's trying to survive. The majority of the people in this country finally realized they were lied to and hoodwinked by his type and those staunch ultra right conservatives. His is a dying breed. He doesn't give one iota about this country or the problems facing it. He's never provided any concrete solutions and that is un-patriotic. As far as I'm concerned he is the true persona of a hypocrite a racist and a bigot. I consider him to be a terrorist!

mr. sanchez , you are a handsome young man with a steady job and a successful position in our society. you need to get over your hatred for pres. bush and/or his policies. if you feel ashamed asan american of so called torture incidents at gitmo. don"t. we as americans have much more to be ashamed of. consider madonna, the rap crap, the millions of gang members thru out all america, the drug problem, the millions on medicad, the filth in our media and on our streets. i could and so could you go on. i do not think waterboarding, unless it caused repeated brain damage or fatality, is causing america to lose respect with the rest of the world. if we no longer hold our place of supremecy it is not because of gitmo. our nation has lost it's place as a moral beacon on many fronts. thank you.

Rick,
Personally I don't care what happens to these monsters. I sat in my classroom and watched the planes hit, I watched the towers fall. On that day I watched nearly 3000 people get murdered. Anyone that associates themselves with these activities or supports the furthing of these and other terror plots deserves alot more than what they are getting at Gitmo. As for the waterboarding (not really torture), it doesn't matter to me if KSM had to endure this simulated drowning for a few minutes if it saved lives. We want future generations to be able to have world without terrorism, not have to just 'put up with it' because we were unwilling to take the steps neccesary to destroy the ideology that promotes terrorism. To accomplish this me must get rid of those that preddle this ideology. If they are not dealt with now we set this curse upon future generations and when you have the ability to stop this it is unacceptable to do nothing.

i saw the entire interview with rush limbaugh and agree with not wanting our nation to change from what the founding fathers and other americans fought and died to preserve to a nation that depends totally on government for it's every need. he (rush) was quick to use the word "if" when speckulating on the obama agenda. meaning –if obama's plan means making government the controlling center of americans lives or socialism then it is not what america has stood for and was founded for. i too hope this type of plan fails. every true american hopes for a plan to get us out of this present day crisis but not at the expense of all we as a nation have achieved and not have more money used to satisfy corp. greed and on the other end of the spectrum given out to medicad whose recepiants do not pay taxes.

Soldiersmom, you are absolutely incorrect when you said I come from "a non military family." In fact, my uncle was a POW in Viet Nam and he even wrote a book about his horrible experience being tortured. Just because some of our enemies use torture that doesn't mean that we should do the same. If we don't hold ourselves accountable we can't hold others accountable either.

If we want other countries to honor the Geneva Convention against torture we have to take steps to prevent torture ourselves. If you are indeed the mother of a soldier, as your screen name suggests, then you shouldn't be supporting the use of torture.

Ask your kid if they think it's a good idea to have international laws preventing torture. And after you ask them, look in a mirror and ask yourself.

God bless you and your family ... and the families of anyone who is tortured.

Spelling Correction: BUSH and CHENEY will be grudgingly
"EXONERATED" not " EXHONERATED"
SORRY, CAN'T SPELL WHEN I AM MAD
SEE ABOVE

Gitmo is a “No Brainer” when it comes to closing,but the desicion as to where to send the suspected Terrorists is a tough decision. During the 2009 Election, they were Polls and more Polls. I think the Obama Adminstration should try doing polls on these very tough decisions he has to make, just to get a “Broad Survey from the People”. Statistics show that there is better chance to get it right, when more people are involved. Do not get me wrong, the people will not be voting, they will just Aid in the Decision Process.

Try the terrorist on Amercan soil.Do a poll to see where the American People would like to send them to.

On "Gitmo" ask the People of the United States where to put them. Again, the Obama Administration should conduct polls on this decision, along with the other very tough decisions the administration needs to make. Utilizing the Internet would be the best avenue to conduct these polls on the many many tough decisions that need to made, and they need to be done as fast as possible.

Rick,
I am NOT a TWIT ter, facebook, myspace,yourspace, or outerspace. I am a INYERFACE,wannabe, so I hope your staff will stop and read a [ what is NOW old fashioned ] E-mail. From a 65 year old part blind [see typing errors], geezer.

Comments on 2 subjects today,

WAR CRIMES,, would we NOT proiscute ANY criminal, Dahmer, Gagy, Hinkley, [ that name is REALLY TOO close], Capone, Libby, Nixons men, Simpson,Bryant,,,,, JUST BECAUSE ???

"RUSH",,, some others who wanted Liberalism to FAIL,,, Hitler, Stalin, Castro, McCarthy, Pilot, Harrod.

Thanks for making your site easy for a ' COMPUTER DUMMY' to use. Maybe others are just as easy, I just don't know how.
" I'LL BE BACK". Please slow down your program, you cover stuff MUCH to quickly. MMEBBE a longer time, but do NOT take Kyra's time. Take it from Wlof, he does NOT need to say the same thing 16 times.
Here's a program idea,, Everyone talks about the illeagal immegrant [ THAT'S ILEAGALS ONLY]. but none have a full solution.
Not just a "some kind of" solution. Do they want to be in America,,, OR BE,, an American??

WOODY
in
WEST BY GOD

I can't wait for Obama's policies and politics to start having their effects on our country. He seems to be charging right ahead in these uncharted and unprecedented circumstances.
Very soon the people will see how their lives are effected by his changes to our national energy policies, to our homeland security policies that deal with the threat of terrorism and, most recently, the new policy toward our troubled auto industry to raise the mileage and emission standards to name a few (didn't the UAW endorse Obama?).
I cannot help but think President Obama's behavior and policies will have the same effect on the 2010 mid-term elections that then First Lady Hillary Clinton's behavior regarding health-care policies had on the 1994 mid-term elections.

Gitmo was a good idea at first, but torture was started and the conditions for prisoners became worse and worse. If only we had a better jail system that tried to rehabilitate criminals rather than punish them. Obviously there is something wrong with these people psychologically so maybe they need rehab and not a time-out!

Rick,
This is the blind guy so ignor errors.

Gitmo isn't the problem. The problem WAS the people who ran it. We will NOT be able to prosicute , and maybe release some really BAD people just because they were NOT treated according to OUR LAWS.

A subject you have not covered yet.
[ BOY,,,am I on top of things or what ]
Military info on an MP3. MP3's are about 8 years old. OH,,, YA,,, LIVE Nucs on a plane, BOMB trigers sent to Singapor,,,.
I UNDERSTAND PERFECTLY?

WOODY
in
WEST BY GOD

I hope I can do 2 comments, I read some others and BOY,, is my dander up.
On History channel, there is a program about what the Military, Fbi,cIa, was allowed to do during the 'COLD WAR'. The Tuskegee air men, A man named Olsen, – the GOV. paid his family 750,000$]
and others that were KILLED in the name of, ?????. The killing for research, was stopped in the Pres, Carter years, REM#MBER we did NOT threaten OR invade, when Pres. Reagan said
' TEAR DOWN THIS WALL"
The INTEGRITY of nearly everything OUR country has stood for,for over200 yrs. has been DESTROYED by a few in the past 8 years.
Now it is time for US, the people of OUR United States, to STAND UP and set things RIGHT.
Don't get me wrong,, their are people at Gitmo that should be stood up and SHOT, and buried at sea. No cameras, no fanfare, no bodies to family. We can NOT do that now because of rhe actions of the Bush administration.

again
WOODY
in
WEST BY GOD

WE CAN TELL THEM NO ABOUT THAT DUMB JET BECAUSE YES WE DO OWN THEM SO THEY NEED TO WATCH IT THERE IS A NEW PIT PULL ON THE BLOCK AND I DONT MEAN PALIN.

Rick:
You had it right the first time. Narcisstic personalities have an exaggerated sense of self-importance, extreme sensitivity to criticism,
constant need for attention, and a tendency to arrogantly overestimate
personal abilities and achievements.
This seem to fit most of the characters that you mentioned.
L.Brackin

Having been a victim of media manipulation in a local protest against a business that assaulted someone that I cared about, I understand the power of the media to report on a matter and immediately turn the general public against who they deem to be the guilty party. I think Blogojevich realizes that the court of public opinion outweights the court of law at times, and that is both unfortunate and extremely scary. However, it is a sign of the times. With the rise of the paparazzi, news reporting has taken on a different face. Unfortunately that involves cloaking the news in the commentators personal opinion, and perhaps personal agenda. Although I think he should disappear from the public, I also think that he is using the media to reach the public because of the influence of public opinion in the practice of law.

Mr. Sanchez!
I follow your program daily, and I enjoy it! Keep up the good work!!!!

Renate Bernsen
Victoria , Texas

i always wanted gitmo to be closed. this was the reason why so many muslims hated america. i do support obama on that issue but taking more troops to afganistan is a bad idea. the taliban already took over the south of afganistan and north of pakistan. what's the piont . more troops won't help at all.

I WANT TO SEE BUSH CHENNY ALL OF THEM TALKING TO OJ SIMPSON IN OTHER WORDS SHARE A CELL TOGETHER

I have never heard anyone say the main reason we are at our lowest (Employment) is 90% because our great politicians made China a favored nation.
Why not explain favored nation Rick?

When Bla go jevich tapes I heard on CNN,I was Shocked

Why He Talks on the Name of Mahatma Gandhi ( Indian Leader and

Influenced World),So far as Corruption is concerned for USA its a

Great News for us,"KAGDA BADHE J KALA" All crow's are black but in USA

Crow named Blagojevich is free to move & always on channels..

SHAME

This is not a war, so all Army requirements are not realy to be followed.
This is "Limited Warfare" as was Vietnam

leave GItmo open to put all the CEO's that had leave us with nothing and had walked with millions, starting with the CEO that spet 45,000 on a toilet.

Hi ..Rick it's my first one!nice show by the way and ur porfessionalisme as well
regarding Gitmo and torture,check the movie ,"Taxi to the Dark Side"
there is the link!http://www.taxitothedarkside.com/taxi_trailer.htm
a very good movie about torture,rendition program ....it's scary what a governement can do!whithout been batherd...after you understand why the UN wants Rumsfeld and Co

I wish Congress namely Republicans where so concerned about the bank bailout as they are about this stimulus package. The banks got 350 billon dollars and we don't know where one red cent is.
Bill, East Hampton, Ct

One forgets that most these guys would saw the heads off your children while you watched that given the chance they would slit your throat. I cannot comprehind the idea they deserve acess to our courts and legal system or just turned free. I also would think or hope that if we had a fellow in custody that knew of a bomb that would kill thousands or hundreds of thousands in one of our cities,that someone would make that person talk, not just offer them respect or tea! okiewan

President Obama said it best: The U.S will NOT torture.
How can we fight a war on terror when we use terror as a method to get information?

Rick
Why can't we just put someone in charge that is reliable, honest and has a heart and clean up Git-mo. Then we would not have to wonder what to do with the prisoners or wonder where they would be sent and how they would be treated. I certainly trust Obama more than any body else that fair justice will be served.
Karen

Y la mas dura de todas es la de W. Bush

If we continue to keep the doors opened on gitmo..and continue to hold these prisoners for the rest of their lives, are any better than vietnam with the POWS there? The POWs in vietnam were tortured, humiliated, and a lot of them remain there today. Sound familiar?
Gitmo prisoners of war, tortured, humiliated, and yes if we remain to keep them in custody they will also become the POWs of the iraq, and afghanistan war. America has proved to the world that the Bush administration was just as ruthless as Tôn Đức Thắng (the leader of North Vietnam during the Vietnam conflict we had with them).
I wonder how many pow/mia members would agree that these people in gitmo need to be set free and forced never to return to this country again.
Think about what your saying when you think that gitmo needs to remain open and these POWs need to remain in custody. If you feel that these people need to remain POWs then you are no better than the North Vietnamese when they thought it was best to keep the American POWs.
You hear of McCain saying it is a mistake to let these people go. Yet what if he was still a POW of Vietnam, Would he feel the same? What if your relatives, that used to be a vietnam POW was still in custody by the Vietnam, Would you still feel the same about gitmo?

I find it amazing... no beyond amazing that you can take the treacherous murderous scum at Gitmo ... scum who they found by any means possible (and thats ok with me) were planning to blow up bridges in California and had more plans on their agenda for the coming years... how you could take these death row bozos who would slit your throat, and then saw your head off as well, as every member of your household... and take the media and manipulate it to try to make the American people... feel sorry for them!... You are a truly amazing media show... and i mean that... because you are not a journalist... where's the story? you parade the opinion out there and then you throw a few ... sketchy facts... as if that was enough... you do us no justice to reporting with your show...

Just think, Rick if these murderers go free, and do more harm, as a few who already have gone free have done... you and your show will have the blood of innocent Americans on its hands...

You make me sad for the truth in reporting... where is it???

This is the same problem people have with any prison....not in my backyard, my city, my state. Unfortunately, as long as you have people that have no tolerance for anything but their own way of thinking and then act on that intolerance with violence....you will have to have places like Gitmo that are not in any of our back yards.

Closing Gitmo means giving half victory to terrorist..

Hell yes, close Gitmo. I have a great solution on what to do with the detainees. Simple...Let them relieve the Secret Service that guard Bushes new home in Dallas! It would not bother me one bit and, I might add, I actually live less than 2 miles from his new residency.
If this great option can't come to fruition, then there's always option
#2, which is.....SET THEM FREE!!!!!

Over the past 20 or so years many of the higher paying manufacturing jobs as well as some service sector jobs, i.e., software, computer service assistance etc. were transferred to foreign countries. This was beneficial to manufactures because it reduced labor costs and consumers also gained because of the availability of cheaper goods and services. In spite of this, we were able to sustain the “good times” with the unrealistic availability of credit, i.e., multiple credit cards, no down payment mortgages, etc. even though we had lost many of the higher paying jobs. What caused our current financial dilemma is the sudden limitation of credit funds coupled with an increase in the cost of borrowing.

We Unfortunately are now faced with dilemmas:

If we limit the governments stimulus package to US made goods we risk alienating the countries that purchase the few goods and services that we produce.

We can not bring back the jobs that we lost and creating replacements such as new “green” jobs, will require experimentation and of course time.

The strategy of easy and cheap consumer credit to keep our economy moving in spite of the lost jobs has failed. Our thinking that we should use government borrowing (the stimulus package) to solve this problem and get our economy moving again may also have serious unintended consequences.

There is more to the story than just closing Gitmo. People complain about the war in Afghanistan and Iraq and the fact we have been fighting for years. However, Geo. Bush even said it would not be easy pr short. In fact the war on terror is unlike any war we have ever been involved in. Maybe that ws the mistake: to call it a war? We are doing battler against ruthless ideologically driven people who, in case we have forgotten, killed over 3000 innocents in NYC. We are in a battle that could last for dozens of years quite possibly, but if we don't make efforts to address these fanatics now they will be on our doorstep again. We have to be committed to the very long haul. That has always been the problem with the USA. Our memories are to short.

Please don't post this message. I have been trying to contact various persons on CNN and HLN for help. I once caught three men (two naked) taking pictures of a small boy. They were in an overgrown lot with trees. After I caught and detained them, a police officer who lived on the scene neither arrested them nor called the local police (which I had asked him to, and which I thought he had done). I want to bring this out in the open (I have been trying for some time) without sucess. I have a personal connection to this officer and he could potentially harm (the above act is not his first malfeasance I know of) my family or me. I am serious about the harm he could do. I believe he should be confronted with this act, but NO ONE will help, to me apparently because HE IS a police officer. I am willing to take a polygraph exam anytime asked to do so.

Rick, I enjoy your program. Before closing Gitmo to appease the world, let's decide what the U.S. will do with the prisoners. Releasing the small jihadi fish that were just caught up by circumstance are not a problem to release. Is any resident of any State in the U.S. willing to keep in their neighborhood the big terrorist fish who planned the World Trade Center attack or beheaded Americans? Will they ever receive justice from a court system that excludes relevant evidence in a trial. Where is the concern for justice for those murdered by Gitmo prisoners?

As seen on DW-TV today- a bank exec ordered 68k Euros worth of embroidered drapery for his Palm Beach Fl. mansion.Did he escape Madoff?
This tidbit was mentioned in a show discussing fashion trends to very expensive emroidery and showed it in that studio.
Wonder if that exec was looking for a bailout as well?
Love your show Rick
Evelyn

your show is most interesting, however, I just heard you talking about transparency and the Bush gang. I agree that transparency at all levels of govrnment is what Americans deserve. BUT. what about transparency of the life of Mr. Obama? I understand that all of his records of college, how he traveled to Africa and Indonesia, and above all, a real bona fide record of just where he was born, not just a record from Hawaii where the birth records are from just what a parent told the authorities of birth records.

When he wanted to be president, his records should have been made public; instead Obama and his party chose to just ignore the
Constitution, and the American people just allowed it to go on.

As for the cabinet appointees who evaded taxes as an homest mistake, we don;t need those kind of people running the government. What decisions of government will they make that are very wrong, and say it was an honest mistake?????

RICK:

I RESPECT YOUR DISCRETION FOR NOT SHOWING THE PORN ON YOUR SHOW. YOU REFERRED TO YOUR WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET ONLY TO SEE A SICKLY LOOKING WOMAN WITH HAIRS FALLING APART. WHERE IS THE PORN? MAYBE YOU THINK WE WERE BORN YESTERDAY.

WHERE IS THE TRANSPARENCY ABOU OBAMAS PRE POLITICS LIFE. HE WILL NOT ALLOW ANY OF HIS PERSONAL RECORDS TO BE RELEASED FROM COLLEGE, HOW HE TRAVELED OVERSEAS WITHOUT AN AMERICAN PASSPORT IN EARLIER LIFE, AND ABOVE ALL, WHERE WAS HE ACTUALLY BORN? None of these things can be released to the public and why not/????? If he is not qualified to be president, how can the CONSTITUTION be disregarded. AND HOW CAN HE TALK ABOUT TRANSPARENCY IN GOVERNMENT?

As for the cabinet posts, WHY CAN SOMEONE JUST SAY A UNLAWFUL DEED THEY COMITTED WAS JUST AN HONEST MISTAKE, We have had two of them now. If they make such dishonest mistakes, how can they be trusted to help run the government. They should not be confirmed for these jobs.

hey rick , hope your kee turns out all right , i would like to know if the USA was to suddenly come into posession of a new technology for the production of 100% clean energy at an unlimited source , would that boost the economy ? because if so mabey we can help .
i have designed a 100% clean electrical energy system that is 100% fuel free and 100% pollution free . this system use absolutely no fuel at all and has no dependants . it is an unlimited supply of power fro the grid . my system can replace the output of a nuclear plant and remove the excuses for using nuclear materials all together . it is sav and can be built in very populated areas . do you think it can boost the world economy ? or at least the USA ?

follow the rule of law

sean

Send them to the Bushes! Give the Secret Service a break!!!

Rick I was curious why Our excommander and chief President Bush isn't being brought up on chargers over the tortures. when we 've got our troups who serve us. Being but on trial for murder due to Mental stress/PSTD. He new about the tortures and should be held accountable like any one else who breaks the Laws.

You people have absolutely no concept of torture. Remember the burned bodies of Americans hanging from a bridge, before the networks came up with the idea that we poor suffering American would have nightmares from seeing the reality of combat. One of the problems with our media today, they are afraid, for whatever reason, to show reality of events, so as not to offend the pampered and shielded citizenry.
John McCain aside, the treatment at Gitmo is not torture. Only those that hate George Bush, or have their head in the sand consider cold/hot rooms torture. Waterboarding, as freighting as it may be, is not torture.
For you that have not worn the uniform of the nation need to get a life.