Building a prison and preaching democracy

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On the one small piece of Cuban territory occupied by U.S. military forces--the Naval Base at Guantanamo, the Bush Administration has created a prison that has become notorious around the world. Yet President Bush insists that he will bring democracy and freedom to the rest of Cuba

More and more evidence of torture by U.S. forces of prisoners held at Guantanamo is emerging, including reports from five Britons who have been released. Secretary of War Donald Rumsfeld himself okayed Major General Geoffrey Miller's list of "nondoctrinal" interrogation methods for use on prisoners at Guantanamo, who are held with no legal rights at all. Then General Miller sent interrogation teams from Guantanamo to train teams at Abu Ghraib in Iraq.

Meanwhile, back at the White House, President Bush has received a lengthy report from his Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba, chaired by Secretary of State Colin Powell. According to this new plan for control of Cuba, the Bush Administration would spend $59 million on trying to implement regime change.

Of this, the largest amount, $36 million, would go for paying so-called dissidents to foment opposition that the White House hopes would lead to the overthrow of the Cuban Government.

http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=5664§ionID=54

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1. You can bet the Cubans have noticed this hypocrisy. eom