Via Gerry Daly and Ankle Biting Pundits, here are the latest poll numbers on how Americans view the Bush administration’s operation of Guantanamo Bay:

- As you may know, since 2001, the United States has held people from other countries who are suspected of being terrorists at a detention facility in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Based on what you have heard or read, do you think the US should continue to operate this facility or do you think the US should close this facility and transfer the prisoners to other facilities?

Continue to operate: 58
Close facility: 36
No opinion: 6

- In general, do you approve or disapprove of the way the US is treating the prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba?

Approve: 52
Disapprove: 37
No opinion: 11

- Do you approve/disapprove strongly, or not strongly?

Approve, strongly: 33
Approve, not strongly: 19
Disapprove, not strongly: 14
Disapprove, strongly: 23
No opinion: 11

Keep doing what you’re doing, Gitmo-bashers. It’s working wonders.

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Reader feedback…

Robert C. writes: “The missing question is the one in which they determine if disapproval comes from feeling the treatment is too kind.”

Yes.

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Update: The White House has rejected the idea of a commission to investigate alleged detainee abuse.

The White House on Tuesday rejected the proposed creation of an independent commission to investigate abuses of detainees held at the U.S. military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and elsewhere.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the Pentagon has launched 10 major investigations into allegations of abuse, and that system was working well. “People are being held to account,” he said. “And we think that’s the way to go about this.”

Agreed.

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