republicans, morality,respect, torture,hypocrisy

The United States should shut down the prison for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay and either release all detainees being held there or bring them to trial, the United Nations said in a report released Thursday.

The report, summarizing an investigation by five U.N. experts, called on the U.S. government "to close down the Guantanamo Bay detention center and to refrain from any practice amounting to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment."

The United States is holding about 500 men at the U.S. naval base on the southeastern tip of Cuba. The detainees are accused of having links to Afghanistan's ousted Taliban regime or the al-Qaeda terror group, though only 10 have been charged since the detention camp opened in January 2001.

Hypocrisy abounds. We preach and push elections and democracy on other nations until the result is not to our liking. We preach human rights and fair trial theory but use turture and degrading treatment, and detention without trial.

We tout freedom of the press but these Reputlicans work to control it by secretly paying journalists and spending millions on covert propaganda to its own citizens. It's no wonder we are losing the respect of our friends around the world.