the outcome of the election

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Nice.  You choose to re emphasize an emotionally charged word, one with Hitlerist connotations, and wonder why people get their backs up.

As I stated, I was surprised that as of November 2004, people who seem to be politically interested as I take from their participating in this thread, obviously have never heard about an ongoing discussion "Guantanamo - concentration camp, yes or no", that has not just been a subject of "liberal European media" as you put it in another post. I've seen this discussed by Australians, Asians, yes, Europeans, and Americans. New York Times discussed it, so I've read. And I've seen it discussed in conservative media as well.

USA wanting to be the beacon of freedom and democracy? Fine with me, more power to them. But (yet another analogy), if you claim to smell like a rose garden, at least use soap and water on your armpits. And Guantanamo is one stinky armpit.

Unlike many people, I haven't lost my trust in the US at all. Actually I'm hoping for the Ronald-Reagan-effect for GWB, that he too has the same kind of switch somewhere on his back that someone seemed to have found and flipped during RR's second term.
But US leadership is setting their own standards pretty high, by "beacon" talk etc, so they have to face being judged by these. Nothing wrong with that, I believe.