Former Guantanamo detainees recall despair (sniff...)

yahoo.com ^ | Sun Jun 11, 2006 | PAISLEY DODDS

[mtbopfuyn]

videotapes of prisoners who had allegedly been ordered to sodomize each other and were chained to a hook in the floor while strobe lights flashed and heavy metal music blared.

What's the problem? Some folks pay good money to participate in such activities (or so I've heard).

[presidio9]

Interestingly, if you Google Ms Dodds, you'll find that she primarily writes about either SUPERMODELS or the atrocities that George Bush is perpetuating in Guantanamo. It is specifically for crusaders like this that our forefathers saw the need to guarantee freedom of the press.

[Little Ray]

After we're finished interrogatin' 'em I think we should furnish each inmate with a length of stout rope. And every cell should have a nice sturdy pipe or ring in the ceiling to which it can be tied, and a chair that easy to kick over.

[mission9]

Would anybody have shed a tear if Adolf Eichman or Rudolph Hess had committed suicide in prison? Herman Goering swallowed a suicide cap, where was the protests from that injustice?

[reagan_fanatic]

A Saudi detainee in the cell in front of us had had enough," said Ahmed. "We could hear him rip up his sheets and tie it to the wire mesh roof of the cell. He jumped off his sink and tried to hang himself. We shouted to the military police and they came and saved him."

Damn...

[garyhope]

Does anybody here have a photo of the world's smallest violin to play for these poor Islamofascists?

[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

Trus, disgusting, but only tangently relevant to the story.

[New Perspective]

"It is the despair — not the thought of martyrdom — that consumes you there."

How about despair of the innocent.

whose trip to Pakistan for a wedding ends at the desolate military outpost at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

An innocent day at work ruined families forever.

[presidio9]

How is it tangential? It directly contrasts how they treat their prisoners vs. how we treat ours.

[The Sons of Liberty]

These SOBs better be thankful I'm not in charge!

[nonliberal]

There is no hope in Guantanamo.

Translation: We'll never be let out to try and kill Americans.

[Owl558]

"In the princple of Innocent until proen guilty, I am willing to suspend my capacity to reason and assume one or two of these freaks was just in the wrong place at the wrong time."

There is no such principle when dealing with the enemy in war. There is Geneva. And since these people are not signitories to the treaty, do not extend Geneva protections to the people that they capture as required, do not wear uniforms as required, & do not carry their arms openly as required, they are not subject to the provisions of the treaty. They are, under the rules of war, no better than SS troops dressing up in captured American uniforms as happened in the battle of the bulge - when this happened in WWII, all were summarily shot - and rightly so under the requirements of Geneva.

Your thinking is of someone who considers these people criminals, and they are not in the law enforcement sense. This is not like you speeding on the highway. They are non-uniformed soldiers committed to the destruction of the enemy without regard for any of the "rights" or Geneva protections that you want to lavish on them undeservedly.

[Anti-Bubba182]

"..The Road to Guantanamo," that traces their steps from a trip to Pakistan for a wedding to the desolate U.S. outpost in Cuba, where they were held for more than two years without charge..."

Does anyone believe this crap?