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Reader Comments
Kudos to Ms Gorman! And, why isn’t she making a tour of the talk shpws a la Karl Rove to bring this issue to the attention of the greater public?
I guess it will be up to the next Dem. in the Oval Office to just open the gates and let them all go. There are no terrorists at Gitmo anymore, unless they have become so because of the treatment they have received there. It was a mistake at the start and it is well past time to just admit our mistake and correct it.
And hope that there are no Padillas there who have been irreparably harmed by their incarceration by our government. As Dan Quayle presciently said, “what a waste it is to lose your mind.”
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