Do you think "concentration camp" is more severe than "prison camp"? When the British invented the term during the Boer War they did it so that it wouldn't sound like they were putting women and children in prison.

When I saw your subject line I thought you'd be posting about the American internment (ie imprisonment) of American citizens of Japanese ancestry during WWII.

See, much as I'm opposed to a lot of what goes on at Guantanamo and much as I am opposed to the present U.S. administration and their foreign policy (I am a card-carrying member of the "I despise Bush" club), I take exception to Guantanamo being called a word that was used for the death camps that killed millions of people (men, women, children, elders) just because of what their ethnicity and/or religion was.

I am in favor of reforming the prisons at Guantanamo to a) make sure that the people incarcerated are indeed terrorists and b) following the laws of due process and humane treatment, but to compare Guantanamo to a concentration camp is an insult to the people who were killed by the Nazis in WW2, whatever the dictionary definition states.