Sure, the Gitmo Detainees were abused, but it's all perfectly legal.

[Philosoraptor]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/16/abuse.allegations.ap/index.html

WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. special operations forces fed some Iraqi detainees only bread and water for up to 17 days, used unapproved interrogation practices such as sleep deprivation and loud music, and stripped at least one prisoner, according to a Pentagon report on incidents dating to 2003 and 2004.

The report concludes that the detainees' treatment was wrong but not illegal and reflected inadequate resources and lack of oversight and proper guidance rather than deliberate abuse. No military personnel were punished as a result of the investigation.

The findings were included in more than 1,000 pages of documents the Pentagon released to the American Civil Liberties Union on Friday under a Freedom of Information request. They included two major reports -- one by Army Brig. Gen. Richard Formica on specials operations forces in Iraq and one by Brig. Gen. Charles Jacoby on Afghanistan detainees.

[greekspeak]

1. And if it ISN'T Legal we will just MAKE it legal

Next to "evil" in the dictionary should be a picture of Shrub.

[Philosoraptor]

2. "wrong but not illegal"

Besides, it isn't even happening here, but in the twilight zone of Gitmo. How can you break American law if you're not even in America?

Sometimes we just need things explained to us.

[greekspeak]

4. I find "its not IN america" disconcerting

By that "logic," all the genocide of Hitler that happened in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, the Ukraine, etc. would be excusable. But the blabbering blathering wingnut talking heads spread this poison to American minds, that torture and murder is jim dandy as long as it is in Sunny Cuba or Scorching Iraq and it is just brown people. These hatemongers are a guilty part of the cruel and twisted AmeriKKKan Neo-Colonial program, sponsored by KKKorporate AmeriKKKa.

[DistressedAmerican]

3. OOPS. Misposted entirely.

[DistressedAmerican]

5. Kicker And Recommendation.

War IS Peace!