A federal judge appointed by President Bush has ordered that five Algerian enemy combatants be released from Guantanamo Bay prison saying that for seven years they waited for the legal system to give them an answer. It is about time. A sixth suspect was ordered held because the government said it had enough evidence to prove he had ties to Al Qaeda.

The idea that America has held people for seven years without a trial is something that Americans cannot be proud of. Many people have died for our freedoms and our system of justice.

Let these men have their lives back and let this be a lesson to the Bush administration that there is a real system in place for justice.

U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon asked that the government refrain from trying to appeal the decision. He is right. He has listened to the classified evidence and he has clearly seen enough of “trial by law enforcement” and not by the courts.

Judge Leon is not a liberal “activist” judge but a student of our system of laws who believes in the system. Let these men have their lives back and let this be a lesson to the Bush administration that there is a real system in place for justice. It prevailed today, albeit very late.