European Tribune - Comments - Chancellor Merkel calls for closure of Guantanamo

Chancellor Merkel calls for closure of Guantanamo | 21 comments (21 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

I agree, one has to be careful with words and I am curious what exactly Merkel is going to say in DC.

However, I don't think the ommission of that one word is sooo important. I think Gitmo is more an icon than a specific place.
Therefore: Gitmo "in a different form" would not be Gitmo as we know it.

Do you know what I mean?

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by Atlantic Review (bl -at- atlanticreview dot org) on Mon Jan 9th, 2006 at 03:35:30 PM EST
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Re: just one word (none / 1)

You can have that both ways: continue with Gitmo after cosmetic changes.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Mon Jan 9th, 2006 at 03:51:52 PM EST
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Re: just one word (none / 0)

Yes, that's certainly how it reads to me.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Tue Jan 10th, 2006 at 03:06:18 AM EST
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Re: just one word (none / 0)

BTW, totally off-topic, that ät - I like your Germanised Anglicism :-)

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Jan 10th, 2006 at 06:50:40 AM EST
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:) n/t (none / 0)

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Tue Jan 10th, 2006 at 11:07:47 AM EST
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Re: just one word (none / 0)

Of course not. Cosmetic changes would not be enough.

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by Atlantic Review (bl -at- atlanticreview dot org) on Wed Jan 11th, 2006 at 05:48:33 PM EST
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Re: just one word (none / 0)

She could just be saying that she does not expect the US to give Guantanamo back to Castro, but that concentration camps are a no-no.

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jan 10th, 2006 at 11:14:35 AM EST
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