Who Cares?

In recent talks with Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Secretary Gates stated that it would be difficult for the military to close Guantanamo Bay on the time table given by President Obama. After taking office in January Obama signed an executive order calling for the closing of Guantanamo Bay in January 2010. Even Senator McCain said it would be very difficult for the closing of Guantanamo on time, but McCain said there is progress being just that it will take Little longer then planned. Most Republicans are against closing the prison, many don't want to have terrorists on American soil and have fought to keep it open.
In my opinion Guantanamo Bay should not be closing at all. I don't understand why its such an issue closing it to me it is a great place to house prisoners. It gives America a place to keep terrorists and keeps them off American soil. No one wants a terrorist anywhere near them even if they are going to be placed in maximum security prison. I also see how Guantanamo Bay prison affects the worlds image of the United States government. Other people see Guantanamo Bay as a place away from the rest of the world where we mistreat the prisoners and torture prisoners for information. When I look at the options I truly that Guantanamo Bay is the best choice when it comes to holding terrorists. I don't understand what the government plans to do with the 220 detainees at Guantanamo Bay where will they go? By putting them into a U.S. prison like the government says I feel that this is a recipe for disaster. What would happen to the detainees where placed with American inmates I'm positive that they wouldn't be very popular. I only see this as way to increase violence in U.S. prison and that is not what we need, caught terrorists should not put such a strain on American resources.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/09/27/cuba.guantanamo.closure/index.html?eref=rss_politics

The Rift Widens

As Obama tries to push through his "A Good Health care Bill" the Democrats and Republican parties grow farther apart on the issue. The president is doing everything he can to pass an overhaul of the health care system in American. The president recently came to Minneapolis to try and increase the support for the bill. Obama is trying to counter act the republican efforts to stop the bill from being passed. Even with all the opposition for the health care overhaul, the president is expect to be able to pass the bill without republican support because of vote majority.

I really feel that a universal health care system would help America and is needed but right now not at the financial cost or the political cost. The two parties need to come to more common views on the issue before the president pushes everything through without any republican support. As of right now only one republican has voted with the the democrats, this is not the way to go. We need to be united on such a huge world changing issue, I really worry about what would happen if we can't agree on this. If they don't start to agree on this issue everything only to get more drawn out and more divided between party's. I've see alot of it in recent weeks, there has been things that have never happened before. We've seen congressmen burst out loud at house meeting over this issue. Tension have never been higher and the worry is real. Even though this issue is causing so much debate and problem i think this is something that needs to be done. The United States is the only developed country that doesnt have a universal healthcare system and all of its citizen arent't covered by healthcare. I hope that this happens and I hope that the two party's can come to more common ground on the issue of healthcare.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32825593/ns/politics-health_care_reform/