Filed under: Guantanamo Bay — Michael van der Galien on March 24, 2007 @ 6:30 pm CET
As I wrote yesterday, I believe that Guantanamo Bay should be closed ASAP. Its very existence is doing great damage to America’s image abroad, and, of course, the way its prisoners are treated isn’t exactly in line with what the U.S. stands for or at least used to stand for.
U.S. secretary of defense Robert Gates shares my view, as does U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice. Sadly, however, it’s not going to happen under Bush’s Presidency.
Snow: “It’s highly unlikely that you can dispense with all those cases between now and the end of the administration.”
The real problem, it seems to me, is that Bush simply doesn’t truly want to close Gitmo down.
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