June 21, 2005

They're All Terrorists Anyway

from - smijer

... Except the ones who aren't. Besides those who are completely innocent, or are guilty only of taking up arms against an invading army, there has been at least one incident where a U.S. soldier was abused at Guantanamo. And it's ugly.

He suffered a brain injury, and sometimes had as many as a dozen seizures a day.
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No one has ever been punished for the assault. An internal investigation in 2003 concluded that no one was liable because the injuries were a "foreseeable consequence" of the drill.
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Baker didn't have to do anything other than be labeled uncooperative to be beaten up. The Army saw no need for an inquiry because the MPs were simply doing what they were trained to do.

Even some of the red-staters are starting to ask some serious questions, like what would an adult do?

We know that dozens of prisoners have died in American custody, with a shameful proportion being probable homicides. We also know that many prisoners have been released from Camp X-Ray, apparently not terrorists after all.
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These are mitigating facts if you fixate on rhetoric in a vacuum, studiously ignore the constellation of American prisons other than Guantanamo, and pretend that rap music, shackles and uncomfortable air temperature is the extent of the problem.

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Posted by smijer at June 21, 2005 07:30 AM
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