Guantanamo Bay hunger strike grows; over half of prisoners refusing to eat (illegal, soldiers)
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All these alleged criminals want is to be charged or put on trial. What we are doing in Gitmo is unconstitutional, and in breach of international law. Its even more appalling in light of the recent study that outed the Bush admin as encouraging and allowing torture, on prisoners whom some were known FOR A FACT to be innocent.
Yet you all mindlessly applaud. Way to go.
These are not citizens......they dont have our rights.......
Gee Ken- That is an interesting statement toward a nation that ejected the Japanese from your country. Now how do you think you would be doing today, had the US simply allowed the Japanese to continue thier occupation of the Phillipines? Did Battan and Manilla show you nothing?
Gee Hawkeye, did you not notice that I wrote 'Location: Not the Philippines'?
I did this entirely for your benefit as you have (for some inexplicable reason) decided that I am from and live in the Philippines.
In that regard you are wrong and wrong.
But even so, the fact that the US army kicked out the Japs from there in WW2 does not let them off the hook for maintaining an illegal base in a foreign country (Cuba).
Let them die, kill them all, it's good they're starving themselves to death... How are we any better than them wishing the same death upon them they do us? What if some of them are innocent? They haven't had a trial...
Some of these detainees have been in jail for 11 years with no charges, when does it end?
Many are 'state-less.' We don't want them. Other countries, including the ones of their birth don't want them either. So, the answer to your question is "Not to long from now, if they continue not to eat ... and the government removes their life support."
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