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Old 03-27-2009, 08:50 AM   #5 (permalink)
Baraka_Guru
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What a great idea: Release GITMO detainees in the US, and give them welfare?
Although it likely isn't your intent, I actually agree with you here.

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Feel free to volunteer your community to accept them if you support Obama.
I would if we had some international agreement. There are already a number of non-Gitmo Uighers living here in Toronto.

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Is anyone here willing to have new next-door neighbors?
I live in one of the most diverse cities in the world, and arguably one of the best. There are American cities poised in the same way that would do well to greet these people. The world is getting smaller. Now is not the time to shut people out on arbitrary grounds.
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