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When is primary election day?
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Would you enjoy participating in politics that wasn't bitterly partisan but was civil/polite/ cordial? What can we do to effect that?
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The GOP attacks Obama over Rev. Wright's statements. Have the heard what the Mormon Prophet said? Does the GOP really want to go there?
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If you think Buffet should GIVE money to the government because he LOVES taxes, why do you go to movies, when you HATE Hollywood?
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WHAT IS THE G20 SUMMIT?
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The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a controversial[1] United States detention center operated by Joint Task Force Guantanamo since 2002 in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, which is on the shore of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.[2] The detainment areas consist of three camps in the base: Camp Delta (which includes Camp Echo), Camp Iguana, and Camp X-Ray (which has been closed). The facility is often referred to as Guantanamo, or Gitmo (derived from the abbreviation "GTMO").[3] [4] The detainees currently held as of June 2008 have been classified by the United States as "enemy combatants" After claims were made that these prisoners were not entitled to the protections of the Geneva Conventions, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against this interpretation on 29 June 2006.[5] Following this, on July 7, 2006, the Department of Defense issued an internal memo stating that prisoners will in the future be entitled to protection under the Geneva Conventions.[6][7][8]
by palmagma on July 2nd, 2008