Debt Free

It's true! Atrocities perpetrated by the Bush Administration are a major contributor to the ballooning federal budget deficit. In particular, I'm referring to the unconscionable practices associated with the feeding of detainees at our Guantanamo Bay facility. By offering the detainees a huge variety of ethnic and traditional dishes, our government, and President Bush in particular, is causing the detainees to balloon to unhealthy proportions. The administration, with full knowledge that the amount of halal meat and other ethnic dietary contributions being set before the prisoners each day exceeds federal caloric guidelines, continues to sanction such practices.

When will the Bush administration learn that such barbaric practices can not be allowed to continue? We can not, as a nation, continue to sanction such unethical treatment of those that are incarcerated at the military base commonly referred to as “Gitmo”. Why do those in this regime fail to understand that such treatment will only engender hard feelings among our Muslim neighbors? The detainees, often held for years without trial, in many cases only because they happened to be herding goats in a region rife with conflict, carrying only a Kalashnikov for personal protection, have done little to deserve this obscene treatment.

Why must we continue to foist our morays on such innocents? Why must we, the United States of America, for God's sake, put these detainees in such an untenable position? How can we call ourselves a nation when we allow our government to set forth before the detainees such bounty as to cause them to consume, on average, 4,200 calories each and every day? Do we not realize the harm that may befall them if such temptations continue to be dangled before them? The detainees, to protest such inhumane treatment, are on hunger strikes.