[Arnold Zephel]

"tantamount to torture"

[sarcasm]Could someone explain "tantamount to torture" to me? God forbid are we depriving these men of being told bedtime stories and being tucked in before they go nite nite.

Is being beheaded by masked Islamofascists in front of a video camera for your family to see "tantamount to torture", or are they just expressing their religious beliefs?[/sarcasm]

[Semper Paratus]

When they finish there would ya think the Red Cross might want to check on the 40,000 or so held in Castro's Gulag?

[RetiredArmy]

To hell with the prisoners at Gitmo. They are murderers and killers. Release them and they will do it again. Put em up against a wall and shoot them. They cut off the heads of their prisoners. An eye for an eye is good enough for me.

[USF]

Could someone explain "tantamount to torture" to me?

Try this:

(from coxandforkum.com)

[frogjerk]

He declined to comment further, adding: "We feel bilateral talks are the best way generally to obtain results."

Is this Kim Jong speaking or the International Red Cross?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

GENEVA (Reuters) - Jakob Kellenberger, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, has raised concerns with President Bush about detainees at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere, an ICRC spokesman said on Tuesday. I trust that President Bush raised concerns with Mr. Kellenberger about his inserting himself into a situation - the conditions under which spies and pirates are being detained - which does not concern the International Red Cross.

[The Great RJ]

Why I think the Gitmo boys should be given weekly pork barbeques, all the beer they can drink, non-stop MTV and have all female guards wear hotpants and skimpy tanktops. Wait that's tantamount to torture for these guys.

[sgtbono2002]

Find out Mr. Kellenbergers home address and we will place them in his custody at his home.