Amid a failing presidential campaign, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush has promised to keep open Guantanamo Bay if he can somehow win in 2016.

The Republican establishment favorite trails former neurosurgeon Ben Carson, real-estate tycoon Donald Trump and Florida Senator Marco Rubio in every national poll. During his trip to military college The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina on Wednesday, he outlined his national security platform in an attempt to reestablish any sort of prominence within the race.

In October, the Bush campaign announced major cuts slashing jobs, removing senior staff, downsizing the Miami headquarters and cutting the campaign's payroll by 40 percent, along with 45 percent of its entire budget.

George W Bush’s little brother will seek to politicize the Paris terror attacks that killed 129 people and injured more than 300 others by highlighting the dangers the US could face if the wrong person is elected as the leader of the free world.

“This brutal savagery is a reminder of what is at stake in this election. We are choosing the leader of the free world,” Mr Bush said, according to an exert published by Reuters.

Mr Bush plans to restore $1 trillion in cuts to the US military, add 40,000 troops to the US Army, 4,000 to the US Marines and boost relations with NATO nations as well as the Middle East and Asia.

He also plans to keep open Guantanamo Bay, established by his brother, despite President Obama’s promise to close the facility by the end of his second term in 2017. Only 107 detainees remain at the facility, including 48 prisoners cleared for resettlement in other countries, the Washington Post reports. He is expected to release the details of his plan by the end of this week.

Mr Bush largely blames President Obama, as well as his former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, for the rise of the Islamic State and terror attacks such as last Friday’s massacre in Paris.

However, Mr Bush was chided by President Obama on Wednesday after the Republican suggested that Syrian refugees should prove that they are Christians before immigrating to the United States.

“You’re a Christian, I mean, you can prove you’re a Christian,” Mr Bush told reporters during a campaign stop in Florence on Tuesday. “I think you can prove it. You can’t prove it, then you know, you err on the side of caution."


Bron: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...n-a6739466.html op 18-11-2015

Mening: Ik vind het persoonlijk schandalig dat Bush Guantanamo Bay wilt openhouden. Guantanamo Bay is een gevangenis voor terroristen die de Universele Verklaring van de Rechten van de Mens absoluut niet volgen. De mensen die hier gevangen zitten worden gefolterd, uitgebuit en onmenswaardig behandeld. Persoonlijk vind ik dat zelfs de ergste terrorist nog steeds een mens is met rechten en mijn mening is dat zelfs de rechten van deze mensen gerespecteerd moeten worden. Ik snap echter wel dat bepaalde rechten wegvallen of beperkt worden, maar deze mensen onmenswaardig behandelen gaat er een beetje over. Guantanamo Bay is erfgoed van Bush, dus natuurlijk wilt zijn jongere broer deze gevangenis openhouden. Ik vind het alleen jammer dat hij de aanslag in Parijs nu als excuus gebruikt, want iedereen weet dat Bush deze gevangenis sowieso wou openhouden. Het ergste van dit hele verhaal vind ik dat niet eens alle gevangenen in Guantanamo schuldig zijn. Er zijn vele mensen die onschuldig zijn en toch nog vastzitten omdat Amerika denkt dat ze betrokken waren in terroristische zaken. Bewijs of geen bewijs, ze zullen deze onschuldige blijven martelen tot ze het opbiechten (of ze er nu iets mee te maken hebben of niet). Mijn conclusie is dat Guatanamo Bay dicht moet, welk argument Bush ook geeft.