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Yes it should be closed. The current US administrations policy is similar to the Interment without trial the UK government used in Northern Ireland and was one of the biggest recruitment factors for, the and justification of, the donation of lots of US dollars in support for the IRA. The policy of also drew criticism of the UK from the USA administration and other governments worldwide.
We also see that despite the intense interrogations, (water boarding, and the use of sexual abuse, threats to family, beatings, force feeding, the use of drugs, psychological and physical stress techniques, the holding juveniles. Of being barked at by both dogs and the from the US military's Extreme Reaction Force," Comply, comply, comply. Do not resist. Do not resist."), U.S. authorities have largely failed to identify any senior Al Qaeda leaders among the terrorism suspects from around the world.
It was reported by Reuters (June 11, 2007) that the Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, the man who made the case for war against Iraq for none -existent Weapons of Mass Destruction said, the controversial prison in Cuba had become a "major problem" for the United States' image abroad and done more harm than good."
Gitmo stands for everything the founding fathers of America were trying to escape from when they made those perilous journeys across vast oceans in flimsy ships into a new world. They are currently spinning like pulsars in their graves at what has happened to that American Dream.
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