Top military officer says Gitmo creates 'psychological scar'

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Top military officer says Gitmo creates 'psychological scar'
| January 11, 2015 | Updated: January 11, 2015 2:09pm


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Count the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman among those who believe it's in the national interest to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center.

Gen. Martin Dempsey says the facility at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba "does create a psychological scar on our national values. Whether it should or not, it does."

The U.S. has transferred of a number of detainees recently as President Barack Obama tries to make progress toward his goal of closing Guantanamo.

The prison population now is 127.

Dempsey says there are "dozens" who still must be detained.


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[Trillo]

1. The psychological scar the prisoners would get?

Nope. Silly me.

[Jefferson23]

2. Talk about an understatement.K&R

[jwirr]

3. That should come as no surprise - ignore our values and then try to tell the nation that we are

still the good guys. I would assume that there are a few psychological scars on the prisoners as well.

[Skittles]

4. being held without charges is bad for your psyche?

WHO WOULDA THUNK IT???

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

5. Yeah, but he isn't thinking about the prisoners.

He's worried about our fragile psyches.

[Lionel Mandrake]

6. The scar is more than psychological.

Gitmo diminishes us all. It's a disgrace. Like the internment of US citizens and others of Japanese descent in ww2, like the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, it's something we should all be ashamed of. The sooner Gitmo is closed and the sooner we apologize to its victims, the better.