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Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:00 AM

Five detainees ordered released "forthwith" after seven years at Guantanamo

If the U.S. Congress had its way, these men would continue to be imprisoned despite there being no evidence of their guilt.

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  • Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:18 PM

    This is frightening...

    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...

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