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Rice heading home after bumpy British visit
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was to head back from her trip to northwest England after a visit which shaped up as a public relations nightmare.
Anti-Iraq protests again dogged Rice and her host, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, throughout her two-day trip to his constituency of Blackburn, a dreary former mill town of 100,000 people best known as a footnote in a Beatles song.
Some 200 demonstrators posting banners proclaiming "War on terror, war on Islam" and "Bring the troops home" greeted the two as they arrived at the town hall Saturday to meet with local Muslim leaders.
At a joint news conference, Rice reacted to a statement by her host that the Guantanamo detention centre was "an anomaly," by saying the US would close the facility the day it was no longer needed.
"The United States does not desire to keep Guantanamo in being any longer than it is needed," she said.
"We don't want to be the world's jailer," she said. "That's not the United States, (or) the purpose of US policy."
Rice came to Lancashire on what was supposed to be a feel-good visit to Straw's constituency to repay his October trip to her home state of Alabama. But the journey was plagued by problems from the start.................
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I just had a friend visit from Scotland a few weeks ago. One of the many things we talked about are the people that are being held at Guantanamo. There are brothers who have no link whatsoever to the terrorist attacks, men who were in the wrong place at the wrong time. And yet, we hold them because we don't want to look like we have no leads. We don't want to look like the asshole.
We are the asshole. America: The Asshole of the Entire Planet. And we already look like it because of our leader. Let the people go!
there is not doubt in my mind there are terrorists in gitmo. there is also no doubt in my mind there are INNOCENTS there.
morally ALONE NO ONE should be tortured. NO ONE. when one of ours is tortured we call those that did it no more than savages.
WHAT THE HELL ARE WE? how can WE judge others?
we have laws and we MUST follow those laws. (some good and some bad)
there should be NO help from us to get india nuclear weapons. we should NOT be torturing ANYONE. one (and i don't give a flying yoo who WHO that one is) needs a warrant for wire tapping etc etc etc
i am shamed
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