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	Gitmo Turns Five

invictus

1-13-2007 10:19 AM

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guantanamo, iraq war, bush administration

invictus says:

Guantánamo is not just a prison. It is an entirely new kind of penal institution that perfectly embodies the Administration's new paradigm for a never-ending, ubiquitous "war on terror."

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