The New York Times has published a scathing editorial attacking President George W. Bush over his attitude to Guantanamo Bay.
This is the editorial from the New York Times, March 25, 2007.
The President’s Prison
George Bush does not want to be rescued.
The president has been told countless times, by a secretary of state, by members of Congress, by heads of friendly governments — and by the American public — that the Guantánamo Bay detention camp has profoundly damaged this nation’s credibility as a champion of justice and human rights. But Mr. Bush ignored those voices — and now it seems he has done the same to his new defense secretary, Robert Gates, the man Mr. Bush brought in to clean up Donald Rumsfeld’s mess. [Read more…]