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In response to the above, I believe your thoughts are a bit selfish. You've got to think out of the box for a moment- think in a wider spectrum. Granted, a guard's life isn't easy; It involves long hours in the hot Caribbean sun and many days away from family- away from reality. So the guards are afforded the amenities of home and things are better for the moment, but what about the detainees who are held in limbo? It is a tough subject to broach because military commissions were supposed to take the place of civilian trials to speed up the process of litigation, but alas, a great number of detainees still find themselves held by the US. Who are the true terrorists? Who are the wrongfully accused? The answer is to stop spending energy accusing the government of torture (because I am certain that torture does NOT take place in Guantanamo), stop arguing that guards have it tough (when over 1,000 American military men and women not to mention allied forces, have died already in this war) and urge the government to make a more rapid finish of what was started with the military commissions.

In response to the article, I don't think it's fair to compare your visit to Guantanamo Bay to post-Vietnam War Cambodia in which around 7 million people were murdered. It is not that, nor is it the common image everyone seems to share- a trenchant lingering of Abu Ghraib or Camp X-ray.

I look forward to reading/hearing your next article/broadcast to see if your ideas of Guantanamo change.