Guantanamo row to cast shadow over EU-US summit

[AnOhioan]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - President George W. Bush meets EU leaders this week seeking to bolster cooperation in fighting terrorism, but he will also hear loud calls for closure of the Guantanamo prison camp and for easing U.S. visa requirements.

Johannes Laitenberger, a spokesman for European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, said Brussels agreed with Washington that terrorism was a global threat.

"But we must be sure that in combating terrorism we do not ourselves damage our democratic and legal systems. Nobody should be in a legal vacuum," he told reporters on Monday.

Last week, current EU president Austria said the deaths of three Arab detainees at Guantanamo further underlined the need to close the U.S. prison camp, which holds about 460 foreigners.

More at http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060619/pl_nm/eu_usa_dc

[The Stranger]

1. Whenever they "agree" about the "global threat," the rest of what they

say is lost upon the Maladministration, upon the people reading the statement in the press, and upon everyone else.

The Maladministration just points out that the "critics" agree about the threat, so -- gotcha.

Forget the platitudes about threats -- just tell them to shut the fucking concentration camp down. Simple as that.

[gratuitous]

2. Chimpy's gotta get sick of hearing about this soon

He's not real famous for his attention span, and I imagine that in his little world once he says he's done talking about something, it usually goes away. He keeps getting static on this from a lot of different quarters. I wonder if any of it is penetrating his pea brain?

[NYC]

3. He probably just shrugs it off.

There are no consequences to their words.

[rodeodance]

4. k