The US military readilly admits that it is struggling to provide therapies and rehabilitative support for soldiers traumatised in Iraq as Defense Secretary Robert Gates claims that the Army cannot afford to close costly Guantanamo down as it wants to.

Human rights groups and many governments including members of the coalition in Iraq  have called upon the Bush administration to close the prison, saying it violates international legal standards and harms America's standing in the world.

Gates told a Senate hearing  ' "The brutally frank answer is that we're stuck and we're stuck in several ways,"  describing how there is a hardcore of detainees  the Army doesnt  want to try but still considers to dangerous to release , the reluctance of detainees countries of orgin to take them back and how US states have almost unanimously adopted a 'Not in our backyard ' approach to housing the prisoners on their patch.

Critics say the US Government just lacks the political will to do the right thing.  

The US went to war - at the very best way of looking at it -  on the wrongful assumption of Iraq being in possession of WMD  and 6 years on the war is placing incredible strains on an already ailing  US economy and now failing those who , whatever their personal opinions about going to war were, made great  sacrifices in carrying out their duty to wage it and keep a peace that is no longer there to be kept. Many of them  are coming home to poverty and despair to a people that no longer sees anything heroic in the quagmire that is in Iraq.

The Bush administration has brutalised and economically and spiritually impoverished the American people. Isnt it time to stop this happening in the backyard?

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