Chairman of the Joint Cheifs says "Close Guantanamo"

[annabanana]

Is he off message?
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-guantanamo-joint-chiefs,0,4975542.story

"I'd like to see it shut down," Adm. Mike Mullen said Sunday in an interview with three reporters who toured the detention center with him on his first visit since becoming chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff last October.
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Asked why he thinks Guantanamo Bay, commonly dubbed Gitmo, should be closed, and the prisoners perhaps moved to U.S. soil, Mullen said, "More than anything else it's been the image -- how Gitmo has become around the world, in terms of representing the United States."

Critics have charged that detainees have been mistreated in some cases and that the legal conditions of their detentions are not consistent with the rule of law.

"I believe that from the standpoint of how it reflects on us that it's been pretty damaging," Mullen said, speaking in a small boat that ferried him to and from the detention facilities across a glistening bay.

[formerrepuke]

1. Of course, he's referring to the prison -not the entire base itself, which would also be nice...

Hanging onto this remote, expensive-to-maintain scrap of land just to spite Castro is ridiculous.