Haley Price, 18, Appalachian State University, Boone: President Bush and other government officials refuse to allow U.N. inspectors into Cuba to assess the amount of illegal activity and claim to the people of this country that nothing is wrong. If that were the case, why would you not want to prove that to the rest of the world? We're not asking for some great tell-all expose on the practices in Guantanamo; however, I feel that the base should definitely be re-evaluated for effectiveness and the current leadership should be carefully scrutinized.

Will Stancil, 19, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem: Guantanamo isn't crucial; you can build a prison anywhere, albeit not one with the shadowy legal advantages afforded by being located off U.S. soil. If the administration has any hope of repairing our national reputation, it ought to spend less time finding loopholes in the Constitution, and worry about the rights that document is designed to protect. A good first step: Close Guantanamo, a facility that, to most of the world, represents nothing but abuse and torture.

Quinn Patrick Foster, 16, Sun Valley High, Monroe: How the prisoners detained at Guantanamo can be of any use to the investigation on terrorism escapes me. Many of these individuals have been incarcerated for several years. Whatever information they may have had is obviously outdated and irrelevant. I personally do not trust this administration's claim that there is no torture or abuse of the alleged terrorists. If there is no credible evidence that these prisoners are a threat to our security, they must be released. After all, in this country we are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

Kimberly Flanagan, 17, home-schooled, Charlotte: We cannot foolishly believe that we are above the laws we have set on other nations and people. Our downfall will be our pride in believing more in ourselves than in the power from above. Accusations from Guantanamo Bay prison, true or untrue, should open our eyes to the fact we are not a perfect nation. I believe that those in the prison should be fairly but firmly treated in order to stop terrorism.

I can't believe the incredible naivity I just read re "Close Guantanamo".

Those prisoners would kill you in an instant if they were free and given the opportunity.  Have you all forgotten where and when and why they were taken prisoner??  Those people (Terrorists!) have sworn to kill as many of you as they can.  I'm old enough to have spent time in a fox-hole with real bullets whizzing overhead and killing many of my friends.  Being humane to the enemy was often greeted by a grenade blast that took out the benefactor as well as the intended recepient of the good deed. These terrorists hated us long before we went to Iraq; Have you forgotten 9-11 and the prior attempt to destroy the twin towers?? Maybe the first attempt occurred before you were out of diapers? After having read parts of high school text-books re WW2 and the absolute nonsense that has been inserted into them by a bunch of draft-dodging professors I don't have much hope for the survival of our country.  Face one basic fact, we are hated by much of the world out of their jealousy of our rich way of life produced by just plain hard work and an abundance of basic resources.  Don't listen to the common drivel that we should feel guilty over what we have in this once-great country, feel proud, not guilty over what we have done.

Most of the world would like to see us fall so they could leap in and grab some of what we have!Don't be mis-lead, be proud enough to be ready to defend what we have and above all, make a real contribution to our fabulous economy. Remember, we financed and rebuilt most of the world after WW2 and our industries built most of the war materials that allowed most of the world to be freed of Hitler's, Tojo's and Mussolini's attempt to enslave the entire world - via killing, torture, enslavement and rape!  And, hundreds of thousands of my generation gave their lives to save our way of life from those rapacious leaders.

Are you ready to look through the blizzard of nonsense blowing out of the colleges and media that says we should be ashamed of ourselves??  Wake up and open your eyes, the truth is there is you will seek it out!

AND CONSIDER THIS: If you really want to stop killing, learn how to drive your car!  About 800 people are killed and several thousands severly injured EACH WEEK in this country ----- just driving in their automobiles. Have you ever considered why the media don't focus on that???!!!  Now that's one helluva bunch of body bags every week,isn't it!  So if you really want to stop the killing and torture (yes torture of the automobile-wounded)focus on that which goes on here at home.  My conclusion is that the media and many/most college profs simply want to brainwash you for their own political end!

Eugene Nordell

Editor response to above

Rapacious leaders. [Most who gave their lives were often teenagers who had no great moral imperative that we were saving the world for democracy and preserving America. BUT, there is a huge difference between what we fought for in WWII and Korea, and what we  fought for in both Gulf Wars.—ED]

Are you ready to look through the blizzard of nonsense blowing out of the colleges and media that says we should be ashamed of ourselves?? [You have evidence? Proof? We attack a country because of political lies, and then try to claim that we are spreading democracy when those first lies are exposed. We certainly had more of a reason to attack North Korea, but we didn’t. That’s probably because Bush had already said many times that he was going to avenge the first Gulf war in which his father wisely didn’t invade Iraq itself, and even stated in print why he didn’t invade Iraq. Iraq did become even weaker after that war. But, Saddam did threaten Bush 41, and so Bush Lite, who doesn’t have half of his father’s intelligence or guts decides vengeance was his. There are massive data files to support why Bush Lite did what he did.—ED]

Wake up and open your eyes, the truth is there is you will seek itout! [The truth IS out there, but it isn’t from someone who listens to the babblings of talk radio, and maybe his drinking buddies, and who has shown absolutely no ability to seek it on his own. Would you wish to debate this with Gen. Wesley Clark, or any of dozens of retired flag officers who OPPOSED the invasion of Iraq? Are THEY to be considered traitors and unpatriotic? And, is the whole world wrong, and only the U.S. right?-ED]

AND CONSIDER THIS: If you really want to stop killing, learn how to drive your car!  About 800 people are killed and several thousands severly injured EACH WEEK in this country ----- just driving in their
automobiles. Have you ever considered why the media don't focus on that???!!!  Now that's one helluva bunch of body bags every week, isn't it!  So if you really want to stop the killing and torture (yes torture of the automobile-wounded)focus on that which goes on here at home.  [Seems that every auto death IS reported in the local papers. Often in headlines on page 1. We are a country of 300 million, with extensive auto industry, run by oil. ANY auto death is tragic, but you can’t justify an immoral war on the basis that there are OTHER people who die in domestic auto crashes. Perhaps when 40,000 Americans a year die in Iraq, then you would be stating that there is comparability? More important, 50,000-100,000 deaths of non-Americans have already occurred in Iraq. While many are insurgents and guerilla fighters, many are innocent civilians caught by terrorist bombs and our military firepower. Whilke Saddam was evil, the terrorism we now see in Iraq was brought upon by the anarchy caused by American and British actions that were done not to protect America or England.—ED]

 My conclusion is that the media and many/most college profs simply want to brainwash you for their own political end! [And, our conclusion at MWCNEWS is that you have shown NO evidence to support your claims, that you have made sweeping generalities, that you have not even looked at extensive documentation that is readily available, and often authored by Bush administration figures and former military and diplomatic upper-echelon officials. Are we all traitors? Are we all brainwashed? Do you have absolute wisdom to make the outrageous claims of brainwashing? Or, as we suspect, have YOU been brainwashed?—ED]

Anonymous

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Some times we are not sure about the seriousness of a content we receive or for that matter intellectual faculty of the writer. This is one of those. MWC

Anonymous

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