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Steyn on Gitmo

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Mark Steyn, writing in the Chicago Sun-Times:
"Even they cannot dismiss the practices at Guantanamo as the actions of a few bad people," (Vermont Senator Pat Leahy) continued. "Before they just did it quietly, and against the law, on their own say-so, but now they are obtaining license to engage in additional harsh techniques that the rest of the world will see as abusive, as cruel, as degrading and even as torture."
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it surely requires a perverse genius to have made the first terrorist detention camp to offer homemade Ramadan pastries a byword for horror and brutality. If I had to summon up Gitmo in a single image, it would be the brand-new Qurans in each unoccupied cell.
A Quran in every cell.  Abusive, cruel, degrading, indeed.