im glad he's personally involved, if that's an accurate statement. i dont trust any of these damn generals anymore. they all hate him because he's not cowed by them.
This is such a crock of $hit. Last year, Gitmo prisoners gained an average of 10 pounds. They have 3 squares and a warm place to sleep and $hit. Yup, torture alright.
These-called abuses in this cae don't amount to torture to me. As for the Generals who have lined up against Rumsfeld...Aren't they the same kiss a$$es who sucked up to Clinton when he was ignoring the military and didn't want to hear from the real warriors?
I was there. Me and old rummy beat the poop outa them irish fellas. Had a heck of a laugh after.
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"For six weeks, he was intentionally deprived of sleep, forced into painful physical positions (known as stress positions) and subjected to forced exercises, forced standing, and sexual and other physical humiliation."
Sounds like Basic Training.
The sexual humiliation was being called a homosexual. Which is an interesting take from the left - now calling someone a homosexual is akin to torture.
How about challenging REAL human rights violators, like China, Russia, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, and Belarus for a change???
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Torture??
These idiots don't what torture is.
But I would personally rather pull each finger nail and toe nail out of these rats and progressively break every bone in their collective bodies one at a time before I would have to watch the spectacle of what we saw on 9-1-1:
American men and women, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, blacks, whites and Asians, sons and daughters being roasted alive or jumping to their deaths from scores of stories above ground because some lunatic with a death wish following a cult called "Islam" decides to take out his hatred for the west on innocent civlians.
Torture??
Baloney.
All groups send this stuff out to keep their troops interested, motivated, and above all, sending cash.
They couldn't touch Kissinger for VietNam (and a few other things). They gave it a good shot to convinct Pinochet, but as I recall, he died before anything happened (and he was responsible for thousands of real tortures and real deaths).
Rumsfeld will be bothered by these idiots for a while, but they won't be able to do more than harass him.
"The interrogation log reveals that al-Qahtani was subjected to a regime of physical and mental mistreatment from mid-November 2002 to early January 2003. For six weeks, he was intentionally deprived of sleep, forced into painful physical positions (known as stress positions) and subjected to forced exercises, forced standing, and sexual and other physical humiliation."
"After refusing water, al-Qahtani was forced to accept an intravenous drip for hydration and, on several occasions, was refused trips to a latrine, so that he urinated on himself at least twice. He was also threatened with forced enemas, and on one occasion was forced to undergo an enema."
"A six-week regime of sleep deprivation, forced exercises, stress positions, white noise, and sexual humiliation amounts to acts that were specifically intended to cause severe physical pain and suffering and severe mental pain and suffering," said Mariner. "That’s the legal definition of torture."
"Al-Qahtani, who is alleged to have been a "20th hijacker," was denied entry to the United States in August 2001. Pentagon spokesman Gordon told Salon.com on Thursday that al-Qahtani was an "al-Qaida terrorist" who provided a "treasure trove" of information during his interrogation. (The information al-Qahtani is said to have provided, however, is still classified.)" The last paragraph justifies whatever sleep deprivation that Al-Qahtani received. Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld should be exonerated. Instead it proves that any noble organization in the hands of leftist, becomes a waste.
Saddams in custody right now and I bet they haven't made any attempt to hold him liable........