Posted on 05/30/2005 5:52:37 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney says he's offended by a human rights group's report criticizing conditions at the prison camp for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay.
The report Amnesty International released last week said prisoners at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba had been mistreated and called for the prison to be shut down. Cheney derided the London-based group in an interview set to be broadcast Monday night on CNN's "Larry King Live."
"Frankly, I was offended by it," Cheney said in the videotaped interview. "For Amnesty International to suggest that somehow the United States is a violator of human rights, I frankly just don't take them seriously."
Cheney is the latest Bush administration official to object to the report. On Sunday, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Richard Myers called the Amnesty International report "absolutely irresponsible."
Washington's defense of its detention and interrogation practices comes after weeks of international criticism and violent protests by Muslims outraged at reports — which the Pentagon says are false — that an interrogator at Guantanamo had flushed pages of the Quran down a toilet.
Cheney said detainees at Guantanamo "have been well treated, treated humanely and decently."
"Occasionally there are allegations of mistreatment," Cheney said. "But if you trace those back, in nearly every case, it turns out to come from somebody who had been inside and released to their home country and now are peddling lies about how they were treated."
Some of the scores of prisoners who have been released from Guantanamo have said they were mistreated, while others have said they were not. Other allegations have surfaced in FBI reports and transcripts of review hearings the military held for the prisoners.
Pentagon officials say they have substantiated five cases where copies of the Quran, the Muslim holy book, were mistreated, although the military has refused to offer details other than to say none was ever flushed down a toilet.
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I agree with what you're saying. I hope you don't let me down. I hate being wrong. LOL
oh and I forgot to mention, Gitmo isn't even a gulag by any stretch of the imagination, it's a detention camp...
when I see photos of Ahmed cracking rocks with a mallet for 12 hours a day and he's emaciated, call me.......
I clicked on the AI link you provided and found this:
"The so-called 'war on terror' appeared more effective in eroding the international framework of human rights principles than in countering the threat of international 'terrorism'."
Terrorism, quote-unquote? "Eroding the international framework of human rights principles"?
The AI has been overrun by proIslamists and Leftwing loons.
Just for fun here is an official dictionary definition of a gulag
gulag
noun
A network of political prisons or labour camps that formerly existed in the Soviet Union;
1b. One of these prisons or camps;
1c. The government department responsible for their administration.
Etymology: 1940s: Russian acronym, from glavnoe upravlenie ispravitelno-trudovykh lagerei main administration for corrective labour camps, made familiar by the writer A Solzhenitsyn (born 1918) in The Gulag Archipelago.
http://www.allwords.com/word-gulag.html
thank you for telling it like it is.....
you've done a great job expressing yourself, I said it, that comparing Gitmo to these Gulags is an insult to those who are truly suffering in real gulags......
I read on one thread here that the guards at Gitmo also have to be on watch for Cubans trying to break in!
I call 'em like I see 'em. And why are you talking to me like the Big Lebowski?
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