Gitmo is 7 years old today -- let this be its last anniversary

You've been kidnapped by foreigners and taken to a strange and frightening prison, where you're treated very roughly on the good days -- worse on the bad days.

You don't know why you are there. You haven't done anything wrong. But your captives call you a terrorist as they spit on you and desecrate your holy book. You are not charged with any specific crime. You are just stuck there in legal limbo, with no recourse.

All this is allowed to happen even despite a study by Seton Hall University which found that 55 percent of Gitmo detainees are not determined to have committed any hostile acts against the United States or its coalition allies, and only eight percent were characterized as al-Qaeda fighters. You and many of your fellow prisoners may have been arrested as a result of a translation error, or arbitrarily sold to coalition forces for a bounty.

After 5 or 6 years of this, you've had enough. You can't take it anymore. So you decide to just let yourself waste away and die. You go on a hunger strike.

But your captors strap you to a chair, shove a tube into your stomach, and force-feed you. There is no relief -- not now and nowhere in sight.

This is what life is like for many of the prisoners at Guantanamo. And right now, our tax dollars are force-feeding some 25 detainees.

Today marks the 7th anniversary of the arrival of the first prisoners at Gitmo. 7 years of this is 7 years too many.

Hopefully Obama will turn things around. Fingers crossed, but with both eyes wide open.