Contributed by: filbert Sunday, October 01 2006 @ 09:27 AM CST
“Even they cannot dismiss the practices at Guantanamo as the actions ofa few bad people,” (Vermont Senator Pat Leahy) continued. “Before they just did it quietly, andagainst the law, on their own say-so, but now they are obtaininglicense to engage in additional harsh techniques that the rest of theworld 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 terroristdetention camp to offer homemade Ramadan pastries a byword for horrorand brutality. If I had to summon up Gitmo in a single image, it wouldbe the brand-new Qurans in each unoccupied cell.
A Quran in every cell. Abusive, cruel, degrading, indeed.