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What the Bush administration has done is shocking. And that they have been able to do it openly, with the whole world knowing about it, is even more worrisome.
My fear is, in its bid to undo the wrongs of the Bush administration, freeing these detainees may release a bunch of people who normally would have been decent folks trying to earn a decent living in their respective countries. However, the Bush administration might have turned them into vengeance seeking terrorists. The irony of Guantanamo is that instead of keeping terrorists from the world, it is creating terrorists to be released into the world. It is a terrorist manufacturing machine...