Torture update from Gitmo

[Solon]

Originally Posted by Tex

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,365482,00.html

Wow. That guy must have some really tough weather where he's from if he'd rather spend the summer in Cuba. I can imagine it's pretty hot and muggy.

It's not that the prisoners are treated well or poorly. It's that they shouldn't be there at all.

[Tex]

Originally Posted by Solon

It's that they shouldn't be there at all.

Why not?

[Tex]

Now that the Supreme Court has seen fit to affirm a variety of rights of terror suspects held at Guantanamo, a new book is out exposing the harsh realities of Gitmo — the diet on which detainees have gained weight — the soccer fields and basketball courts — the letters home about mild weather and beautiful sunsets — and the detainees who don't want to leave. All of this and more is in Honor Bound: Inside the Guantanamo Trials by Kyndra Rotunda, an Army Reserve Major and member of the Military Commissions Prosecution Team. Learn more about the place that has been compared to Auschwitz and the Gulag, which houses probably the healthiest, best fed, least inconvenienced prisoners of war (or whatever they are) in human history.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/pos...JjMWU5N2ZmYjY=

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...tionalreviewon

[UtahDan]

Originally Posted by Tex

http://corner.nationalreview.com/pos...JjMWU5N2ZmYjY=

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...tionalreviewon

Patty Hearst didn't want to go home either. Ditto Elizabeth Smart. Of the arguments to be made here, that particular one is not very persuasive IMO.

[Tex]

Originally Posted by UtahDan

Patty Hearst didn't want to go home either. Ditto Elizabeth Smart. Of the arguments to be made here, that particular one is not very persuasive IMO.

What argument is it that you think I'm making?

And are you seriously trying to argue our terrorist friends at Gitmo are suffering from Stockholm Syndrome?

[Indy Coug]

Originally Posted by UtahDan

Patty Hearst didn't want to go home either. Ditto Elizabeth Smart. Of the arguments to be made here, that particular one is not very persuasive IMO.

Did John McCain not want to leave his prison?

[UtahDan]

Originally Posted by Tex

What argument is it that you think I'm making?

And are you seriously trying to argue our terrorist friends at Gitmo are suffering from Stockholm Syndrome?

Are you seriously trying to argue that the good conditions at Gitmo bear on the question of what kind of due process they ought to be getting?

[UtahDan]

Originally Posted by Indy Coug

Did John McCain not want to leave his prison?

What does that have to do with anything?

[Indy Coug]

Originally Posted by UtahDan

What does that have to do with anything?

Trying to come up with a better analogy than yours.

[UtahDan]

Originally Posted by Indy Coug

Trying to come up with a better analogy than yours.

I understand the point that Gitmo is not the torture camp that people have said it is. I'm just saying that this is as far as that fact takes you. The fact that they are treated well is often trotted out and the intimation is, what do these guys really have to complain about. Perhaps I am responding more to that than what Tex was quoting, but I see that intimation in the quote.