Vice-President Cheney says that there are no plans to get rid of the prisoner camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, amid allegations that prisoners are being abused by guards and interrogators.
That's too bad.
Cheney said that those prisoners who remain there are “hardcore” and “bad people.”
Those prisoners should be transferred to the mainland, put into the criminal justice system, put on trial and put away with other hardened criminals IF they’re found guilty by a jury. This entire concept of the U.S. military holding onto foreign nationals for questioning indefinitely without trial in communist Cuba ought to be done away with.
Does anyone think that our civilian maximum-security prison systems AREN’T full of “hardcore” or “bad people" and cannot handle terrorists as well as murderers?
Gitmo has become a huge distraction and a major publicity problem for an Administration that is trying to rally international support for the war on terror.
America’s human rights image has suffered severe damage from the Administration’s handling of the war, the setting up of these special prison camps and the sex and interrogation scandals coming from those camps. Cheney is dead wrong when he says America's image isn't being damaged.
Enough, already!
Transfer the prisoners over to the American justice system; it’s much better equipped and trained than part-time reserve forces and National Guardsmen (who have been involuntarily called up and sent over there) to handle prisoners properly. Let the military police deal with their own and the civilian courts handle everything else.
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