by Amber Lafoy

Created on: June 28, 2007   Last Updated: December 16, 2010

No, I don't believe that we should close the prison. The reason that I say this is some of the prisoners that are there I help put there. I was in Iraq from Feb 2003 till April of 2004 as Military Police. It would be a slap in my face if they were to let those people go. Also I think it would be slapping all of the soldiers and people who died in 9/11 in the face as well. The people who are complaining about how they are being treated have not been were I have. If they could have been in my shoes for a day they would be thinking something very different. The people that are locked up there are cold blooded killers. All they are thinking about is how to get their next kill. Anyone that uses women and children to do their dirty work deserves to get what is coming to them. While in Iraq I saw what evil could do to men and it is not pretty. The prisoners that are being held there are being treated better than what our soldiers that are captured are being treated. We are lucky to even get our men or women back alive and in one piece.

Let me tell you a short little story and maybe who is reading these will see the other side of the story that the news is not sharing.

When I was in Iraq I went to a little village outside of Baghdad. There was a lady there with a little girl and the both wore black. The lady came to me and she spoke some English and she asked me when were they going to get help. I told them that it would be very soon, but we were having trouble getting food and water to them because the insurgent's were attacking the convoys of food and water that was coming to them. The women then told me that her daughter and son had not eaten in a couple of days and that they were hungry. So I gave them a couple of MRE's ( Meals Ready to Eat) and she began to cry. I asked her what was wrong and why was she wearing black. She then told me that her husband and oldest son was taken by Saddam and his soldiers to fight the war against the Americans and they were both killed during our first wave through. Then she told me to wait a minute that she had a gift for me since I gave her children food. She came back and gave me two beautiful scarfs and told me to take them because she would forever wear black to mourn her husband and son.

I guess what I am trying to say is the people that are in Guantanamo Bay should have no rights. They are getting what they deserve. Why should that poor women and her kids go through life without a husband and father also a son and brother because of people like that?

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