Today (11th January 2008) Guantanamo Bay turns six years old! The base in Cuba is well known (for all the wrong reasons) around the world as one of the symbols for the War On Terror. Guantanamo Bay started the ball rolling, It wasn't long before the rendition flights took off and torture, something that is illegal in most western nations reared its ugly head.
Guantanamo Bay has now processed 775 detainees have been brought to the US Navy base and around 420 have been released. Around 355 detainees remain at the base. A number have been released without charge and were not detain on return to there countries of residents. Terrorism is a pointless and barbaric crime, If history has taught us anything is that violence is not a solution. However I do not support Governments stooping to the level of these barbaric terrorists by torturing suspects to get information. This will only escalate problems, it does not take a genius to work that out.
However, in November America chooses a new president. Social news sites like Digg are already alive with talk of rigged votes even in in this early in the voting, So will America be making the choice of who leads there country in November or will someone else?
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