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President Obama decides to close Guantanamo Bay Terrorist Detention Facility

Today, President Obama signed an Executive Order that will close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility within one year. Military Families United has been working with your U.S. Senators and Members of Congress to ensure that what follows this closure does not harm our national security or endanger the lives of our families here at home, our troops serving overseas, or the people of the countries where these terrorists may be returned.

The Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility currently holds 250 enemy combatants. These are terrorists who have tried to kill American troops or who pose a significant threat to American citizens. These are men who have made it their life’s mission to destroy America and all of our people. These are terrorists who have vowed to kill the innocent for the advancement of their radical ideologies and principles. These are the people who killed 2,977 innocent people by flying planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 9/11.

The Executive Order signed today also allows for a task force to make recommendations on what happens to the enemy combatants currently being held at the detention facility. We will be working with our legislative leaders, the task force, and the Administration to ensure that the interests of America’s military families are represented in this vital policy debate.

We want to make it very clear that we will work aggressively in the interests of America’s military families to ensure that these terrorists are brought to justice and that they will never again threaten the safety and security of America.

Military Families United believes the following:

• Guantanamo Bay should not be closed due to a public relations issue or to score political points. It should only be closed if it is no longer the most effective way of detaining enemy combatants.
• For every step of the process, from military trials to conviction to capital punishment or long-term incarceration, the procedures for dealing with all enemy combatants must be decided before any process of closing the detention facility is executed.
• Detainees should not be brought to communities within the United States.
• The assignment of due process rights to foreign enemy combatants, that they have neither earned nor deserve, will be debilitating to our troops’ ability to fight and win the War on Terror.
• Detainees cannot be tried in civilian court or held in a federal prison. This is a military issue and should be handled by military protocols and procedures.

Military Families United, the nation's premier grassroots military family advocacy organization, knows that our brave men and women - our sons, daughters, husbands or wives risk their lives every day to protect this country from terrorism and the radical ideologies that support terrorism. Many courageous Americans have made the ultimate sacrifice so our homeland would be safer, more secure, and free from fear. Our military does not fight to eradicate terrorism abroad only for our government to welcome suspected terrorists as their neighbors in America. We strongly believe that the closure of Guantanamo Bay must be a carefully considered and thought-out process. Our troops have fought these terrorists on the battlefield, captured them without lethal force, and secured them at the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay. We cannot reward these terrorist now by inviting them to live beside us in the land that they have vowed to destroy.