Guantanamo Bay Closing

President Barack Obama signed an executive order to have Guantanamo bay closed by January 2010. Guantanamo isn't going to be able to make this deadline many people say. The problem is were to put the detainees. They want to send them to a maximum security prison in the us. But people don't think this is a good idea to bring terrorist in to the us when the whole point was to keep them out.

I think they should keep Guantanamo open and keep the terrorist there. We don't need them in the us. Something crazy might happen like in the movies and some terrorist will get out. Guantanamo might give America a bad name but it keeps the people we are in war over out of our country.

Jobs wont produce until 2010

At the state of the union Barack Obama said "revising job losses will come at the end of the period, not the start." He hopes that by 2010 jobs will start turning around. Right now it takes 150,000 new jobs a month to deal with the growing population. If we could get 50,000 more a month we could slowly bring that 700,000 job losses at the beginning of the year down.

Its sad that 700,000 people lost their jobs this year. If Barack could start to bring the jobs up with his reform on health care and just keep trying to boost the economy. Obama is considering making health care for illegal immigrants. This isn't right, that's taking money away that could be going toward hard working Americans. I don't see why they are worried about the immigrants when us citizens could be using that help from the government. Once people start to get jobs i think allot of things are going to be better. People wont have to be losing their houses, cars, everything they have worked for their whole life. Hopefully Barack is right about 2010 bringing more jobs because that's just what we need.

CIA Interogation

Seven former CIA Directors sent a letter to Barack Obama asking him to quite pursuing the harsh interrogations used after 9/11/01. The bush administration only took one of the cases to court and tried it. Barack Obama now wants to reopen the cases and bring them back to trial. The CIA spokesmen Paul Gimigliano says that they are still cooperating with their review and they would like the reopened cases to be dropped.

This has been going on for a long time. The cases of harsh interrogation happened in 2001 and only one case was tried and that was in 2007. They dropped the cases after that and now they want to reopen them. I think they should reopen them because one man was sent to prison for eight years after he beat an afghan man that later died. There are more cases of people being beaten and then dieing but this is the only one that was tried. Its really not fair to the guy in prison that hes the only one that gets in trouble out of all the brutal interrogations. The CIA's excuse for the cases to be dropped is they are dealing with their review. That shouldn't matter and these cases should be tried to the full just like the one mans was. Its wrong that they take Afghan prisoners and beat them until they die.