Durbin was wrong for what he said and I support the troops, but that does not mean we should be in the business of suffering or celebrating and making light of questionable practices.
These are not questionable practices. These are legal interrogation methods and used world over by various countries, the difference is we don't us actual torture to augment the DISCOMFORT of minor temperature changes and loud music. We use these same tactics on criminals in this country and they have been ruled legal. Sleep derivation is common in interrogation techniques.
I would rather see some terrorist lose sleep and have his room at certainly less than freezing temps. I don't recall hearing of any frostbite cases from Gitmo. Also temps without the air-conditioner are also acceptable. People here in the US go without air-conditioning everyday of the summer, do you complain to anyone about that?
These people are treated very well and this satire is right on the money. I suggest you actually find out what is going on in Gitmo before you get up on your high horse about questionable tactics.
Fly an airplane into a crowd of 3 thousand in Saudi Arabia and see what happens to you, I guarantee you, you will not be eating orange glazed chicken, dry or moist!
Give us a break.
Well, let's see. We aren't allowed to beat these people, or draw blood, or (my personal favorite) attach a Sears Diehard to any of their favorite body parts. We can't use drugs, explicitly threaten them with death, deny them the observation of their religion, or deprive them of food and water. How, then, do you propose that our interrogators should persuade them to give us information that might save the lives of our sons and brothers? Sweet-talk them? Offer them money and book deals?
Depriving them of sleep and making them listen to bad popular music is, as Victor Davis Hanson remarked in a column today, hardly comparable to the true agony they have inflicted upon others--others who were truly innocent. They merit nothing, but they are being coddled so that we don't incur the sneers of the world. Meanwhile, our men die. And you think it is unreasonable for them to be subjected to temperatures that are not as warm as Baghdad in the summertime, temperatures our boys must endure in body armor because of the predations of animals like these.