Guantánamo hunger strikers subject to harsh new method of force feeding

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24. Remember these are NOT convicted felons NOR Prisoners of War

These people are being held as "Unlawful Combatants" a term invented under George W. Bush to classify people they wanted to jail, but not give them the rights of POWs OR Felons (Felons have rights, the main right is that they get a trial).

These prisoners are now trying to force the US Government to either release them OR give them a trial. At Trial they can confront the evidence that keeps them in prison (The problem is the case of most of the prisoners there is NO evidence to confront, and thus at a trial all charges would be dismissed and they would be released, something this administration do not want).

Furthermore the Courts of the US have refused to intervene, when forced to make a ruling the courts have ruled holding the prisoners is illegal, but then refused to order they release, deferring to the President. Now the President has to do SOMETHING or he will have mass deaths on his hands. One or tow deaths he could ignore, but mass deaths, given the situation in the Middle East would be a disaster for US foreign policy.

Release them OR try them, either would satisfy these prisoners, ten years in jail without a trial is uncalled for, yet that is what these prisoners have endured.