What The Fuck Is The Matter With Our Country?!

I just read an article in the New York Times (Palin Supporters: BOOOOO! Kill them!) about a federal Judge who just ordered the Bush Administration to release 17 prisoners from Guantanamo Bay. The prisoners are Uighurs, who are Chinese/Muslim and persecuted in China. I was reading with interest rather than anger, until I read the following:

"The Uighurs, who were detained in Afghanistan in 2002, say they have never been enemies of the United States. They were cleared of suspicion in 2004, but they have remained in detention because of controversy over where they could go."

When people talk about what's wrong with America, this just about sums it up for me. When we know there are innocent men being detained in a prison that we control, and yet the Bush Administration is fighting the release of these innocent men, there is SOMETHING WRONG WITH AMERICA.

I'm seething right now.

Here is the article in its entirety. Of special note is Federal District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina, who has had enough of Bush's stall tactics and has demanded these men be bought into his courtroom on Friday to be released. Good for him. And shame on our government.

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