Ok, the press is still all over the Cheney shooting accident. But could they possibly tear themselves away from that for a second, and consider the implications of the recent National Journal story that revealed that a large portion of the 500 prisoners held at Guantanamo are being held there in error and that the government knows this. (Recall that Erik Saar suggested exactly this in Inside the Wire.)
Why is this not one of, if not the, biggest stories of the hour? Gitmo is where our leaders decided that the Geneva Convention prohibitions against torture did not apply. It is where Donald Rumsfield first approved his "enhanced interrogation techniques," techniques that have resulted in death at Bagram and Abu Ghraib. How many innocent people has the United States government violated the basic human rights of in our name?
A U.N. Human Rights team just concluded after 18 months of investigation that Gitmo should be shut down for violations that amount to torture.
This is a shame. A horrible shame that has been committed in the name of the American people. How can we tell the world we stand for human rights and then show such this sort of antipathy for what is going on in Guantanamo?
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Ummmm....funny.It's your MSM that is blowing the Cheney thing out of all proportion.And BTW...terrorists DO NOT fall undrer the Geneva Concention.Get a brain,asshat
Ummmm....funny.It's your MSM that is blowing the Cheney thing out of all proportion.
Not sure what you mean by "your." Regardless, what does that matter? How is it relevant to the point I raise?
And BTW...terrorists DO NOT fall undrer the Geneva Concention.
In one ear and out the other, I suppose. What about the 92% of the people held at Gitmo that are not al Qaeda fighters? Do they qualify?
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