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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (45687)	3/6/2004 5:13:39 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 50167

Hi Iqbal, Thanks for the article about Asadullah the Afghan. It probably won't really surprise you that I don't get too much of a "good feeling" about how well this young boy was treated while in captivity. The mere fact that he was arrested without due process, was never guilty of anything and that his arrest, incarceration and education were all done at my expense as a taxpayer makes this episode one of extremely dubious merit. How dare George Bush waste the treasury of the United States on such trivial pursuits? This is spendthrift profligacy of the most ruinous sort for a nation that is bankrupt in all but name. I'm dismayed that the Guardian would portray the human interest side of this story rather than cover the fact that vast wealth transfer is occurring at Guantanemo Bay, where Halliburton (once again) is charging the U.S. government a king's ransom to feed, cloth and shelter hundreds of innocent men, and a handful of truly bad actors. No, I cannot abide by the notion that there ought to be a profit center for Halliburton that is a complete violation of the spirit of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Habeus corpus is completely violated by the illegal incarcerations at Guantanemo. And in a bout of stupendous hypocrisy, the few prisoners who held British passports have been granted the right to be sent to the UK to face real justice, while the hundreds of others with no passports or those of countries that the U.S. doesn't care to coddle simply rot in the prison without their human rights cared for. The Guantanemo prison is a travesty of justice. No matter how well fed and entertained Asadullah felt he might have been. After all, the citizens of Oceania in Orwell's 1984 largely felt that they were happy. Since they were constantly told that by their prison wardens. This is not a future we ought to embrace. Arbeit macht frei! War is peace. Slavery is freedom!