Persuasive Essay On Guantanamo Bay

Located in Cuba Guantanamo Bay served for the U. S as a prison for illegal detention. The U. S by combating the war on terror at Guantanamo Bay is doing something unconstitutional. The main reason the U. S decided to use Guantanamo was after 9/11 in an attempt to fight the war on terror. The use of Guantanamo goes back to the Spanish civil war, and even when Cubans were sent to this prison by Castro. Guantanamo also is currently in debate on its closing.

Guantanamo Bay was first discovered in 1494, by Christopher Columbus. Christopher sailed here on an attempt to locate gold. Although no gold was found the discovering of the protected bay opened as a safe haven for pirates and British navy alike in the years that followed (Packard 1). On June 10, 1898, U. S marines landed on the bay during the Spanish- American war this gave U. S control over the bay (“ Notes On” 1). The first use of the bay was in November 1991, when the Naval Base started being used as a prison (“ Notes On” 1). When a terrorist attack occurred on September 11, 2001, President Bush, along with his attorney general sought to use Guantanamo as a place where they could send prisoners captured in
These first men were held a secret from the American people. “Prisoners of war were denied hearings of lawyers, and were tortured by American soldiers. Often when these soldiers were sent to the prisons no evidence was given to the soldiers explaining why the prisoners were detained or even sent to the prison( Leopold 1). The bush administration believed that many of the prisoners held there were potential sources of information for the capture of AlQaedaa, and Saddam Hussein (Leopold 2). One thing is for sure because of Guantanamo and their unconstitutional tactics of interrogation the 2003 invasion of Sudan, and the murder ofOsamaa Bin Laden would have probably taken longer to occur if the prison wouldn’t have existed( Leopold