A host of Americans, from Jimmy Carter to Sen. Joe Biden to Sen. Mel Martinez, have called for shutting down Guantanamo.A host of Americans, from Jimmy Carter to Sen. Joe Biden This article is about the United States Senator from Delaware, for other uses of the name, see Biden. Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, Delaware. to Sen. Mel Martinez, have called for shutting down Guantanamo. While they do not agree with Amnesty International Amnesty International (AI,) human-rights organization founded in 1961 by Englishman Peter Benenson; it campaigns internationally against the detention of prisoners of conscience, for the fair trial of political prisoners, to abolish the death penalty and torture of that the facility is the modern Gulag Gulag, system of forced-labor prison camps in the USSR, from the Russian acronym [GULag] for the Main Directorate of Corrective Labor Camps, a department of the Soviet secret police (originally the Cheka; subsequently the GPU, OGPU, NKVD, MVD, and finally the KGB). , they consider it a national embarrassment. Carter, who is not embarrassed to be the despots' toilet brush, is a hopeless case. The other gentlemen must get a grip. Guantanamo is the focus of critical reports, in part because it is Qaeda strategy to claim mistreatment mis·treat tr.v. mis·treat·ed, mis·treat·ing, mis·treats To treat roughly or wrongly. See Synonyms at abuse. mis·treat . The Koran is better treated there than the Ten Commandments in American schoolrooms. We must keep prisoners somewhere; shall we let all the terror suspects go? The American assault on Guantanamo is a species of selfhating insanity. Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney have been defending our record, but this case has to be made, and closed, by the president. |
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