So do it, already. Bush's words come on the heels of Former President Jimmy Carter's criticisms of Gitmo and other US concentration camps around the world.
The U.S. continues to suffer terrible embarrassment and a blow to our reputation ... because of reports concerning abuses of prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo.
Some of the roughly 540 prisoners at the camp have been held for three years without ever having had charges filed against them. White House spokesman Scott McClellan defended the camp, calling the prisoners "dangerous."
They are enemy combatants for a reason — because they seek to do harm to the American people. And these are individuals that were picked up at the battlefield in the war on terrorism. This is part of winning the war on terrorism, going after and capturing or bringing to justice those who seek to do us harm.
Well, how about charging them, prosecuting them, and then imprisoning them if they're found guilty? It's a little thing we Americans call "due process of law."
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