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Headlines : Human RightsGuantanamo degradation revealed
The Pentagon officials said the methods, temporarily approved by the Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, but later banned, were “creative” and “aggressive” but did not amount to torture. Some Republican senators questioned the need for the investigation, the latest of half a dozen into alleged abuse of detainees. James Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican, said: “We’ve nothing to be ashamed of.”
It is this very same arrogance and ignorance that causes the rest of the world to hate the United States of America.
[Posted By alpinestar]Republished from The Independent
A Pentagon investigation has provided the clearest proof yet that the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib which shocked the world was in largely “road-tested” at the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The investigation report, delivered to the Senate Armed Services Committee, found that techniques used at Guantanamo which had drawn complaints from FBI agents at the centre, did not constitute torture. And Major-General Geoffrey Miller, the commander of the prison in 2002 and 2003, who later went to Iraq to oversee detainee operations, escaped reprimand because his superiors ruled that prisoner interrogations during his tenure at Guantanamo did not breach US laws and regulations.
But the similarities between the treatment of at least one prisoner at Guantanamo Bay and what happened more than a year later in Iraq, proved “these techniques were not invented in the backwoods of West Virginia”, said one human rights official here, referring to the low-ranking reservists who have borne the brunt of the punishment for Abu Ghraib.
The report said Mohamed al-Qahtani, a detainee accused of being the missing “20th hijacker” of 9/11, gave no information under standard interrogation, so his questioners forced him to stand naked in front of women, made him wear a…
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Abuse should not take place. Generally, the treatment of these terrorists is far better than they deserve. If abuse does takes place, it will be dealt with. It is rare and probably not worth spending much time thinking about. Violators will be repremanted. It however, has nothing to do with the war on terror.
Those who want to believe that the US war effort is bad will do so regardless of any trivial facts on the ground at Git’mo. Those of us who love our country and honor our heros who are whacking the terror filth in Iraq and Afghanistan will also think so regardless of any particular facts at Git’mo.
We know that the left reports this stuff as if they, the left, actually care. It only shows that the left is bitter about the US winning the war, a Republican President being so successful in spreading freedom and the left being wrong time after time.
Generally, the treatment of these terrorists is far better than they deserve.
There’s this thing… It’s called due process. If they cannot find a way to charge you, then you are not to be held. “You look like an Osama…” Is not near a good enough reason to hold someone indefinitely.
It is rare and probably not worth spending much time thinking about.
Why, does it create some sort of guilty itch in the back of your tiny head? ALL incidents of governmental abuse must be given the UTMOST attention. If you turn a blind eye to such activities, the people committing them consider that as complicity… Which it in fact is.
It only shows that the left is bitter about the US winning the war, a Republican President being so successful in spreading freedom and the left being wrong time after time.
I will admit that I am entirely pessimistic about the pending results of this war to “spread freedom”. As I recall, it wasn’t about that in the first place… I remember waking in cold sweats after having nightmares of Saddam dropping nukes down my chimney like an evil A-rab version of Santy Claus… shiver Anyway, it’s far too early to predict the outcome of this situation. These sorts of things will reverberate to some degree or another for the rest of Iraq’s future. I certainly do hope something good can be salvaged from the mess.
Hey, what’re you still doing here, anyway? Weren’t you going to show your patriotism and help out the Army when they most need you?
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The due process some commentators talk about is internal to the United States and applies to criminal law. The US applies a very high standard when treating unlawful war prisoners. It is an American statndard. The GC, nor the US Bill of Rights applies. This has been explained many times by the Administration and affirmed by the courts in the US.
Many of these people were abducted out from the US. Many of them face no criminal charges. Many of them have not been shown to be so-called “enemy combatants”. Why are they being held?
The US applies a very high standard when treating unlawful war prisoners.
Yeah, I know what you mean… It’s such a drag that the panty-waisted American populace gets squeamish when it’s time to get our hands dirty… Fortunately we can outsource for these kinds of things now-a-days.