06/16/05

'Absurd!' George Bush exclaimed. 'Reprehensible!' Donald Rumsfeld charged. 'Ridiculous!' stated Scott McClellan. 'I'm offended!' declared Dick Cheney. What are they all so upset about? Is it the stripping and shackling of Guantanámo prisoners low to the ground, the forcible squeezing of their genitals, the smearing of menstrual blood on Muslim detainees, the shooting of rubber bullets at inmates, the forcing of prisoners to stand cruciform in the sun until they collapse, the desecration of the Koran, or the psychological torture documented at Gitmo by Physicians for Human Rights? Are they concerned about the treatment of Mohammed al-Qahtani, who was force-fed liquids through an IV and then forbidden from urinating, and who evidenced 'behavior consistent with extreme psychological trauma,' according to Time Magazine? No, it's Team Bush engaging in damage control after Amnesty International labeled the United States prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, 'the gulag of our time'...

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/061605B.shtml

from TruthOut, by Marjorie Cohn


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp