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A Pentagon review of conditions at the Guantanamo Bay military prison has concluded that the treatment of detainees meets the requirements of the Geneva Conventions

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The report, which President Obama ordered, was prepared by Adm. Patrick M. Walsh, the vice chief of naval operations, and has been delivered to the White House. Obama requested the review as part of an executive order on the planned closure of the prison at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, on the southeastern tip of Cuba.

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"We do think conditions are in violation of U.S. obligations to treat prisoners humanely, and prisoners are at a physical and mental breaking point," said Pardiss Kebriaei, a staff lawyer at the center. "These are not the conclusions we had hoped for under Obama. It's very disappointing."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/20/AR2009022002191.html

 

As before with Iraq Obama seems to realise slowly that problems cannot be solved with "hope". And I realise that some things are only evil when George Bush does them.

 

Incidentally:

"Walsh also found that prisoners should be allowed more communal recreation and prayer time."

What for? I keep hearing that the terrorists are not Muslims. What do they need "prayer time" for? And why can prayer not be done in "recreation time"?

If those people were so religious, why didn't they remember that "Islam" means "peace" years ago?

 

 


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on Feb 23, 2009

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on Feb 23, 2009

".....treatment of detainees meets the requirements of the Geneva Convention...."

What crap! Did anyone speak to the prisoners about this?

on Feb 23, 2009

What crap! Did anyone speak to the prisoners about this?

Because none of them would ever dream of lying.

on Feb 24, 2009

What crap! Did anyone speak to the prisoners about this?

Probably not.

And what would be the point? Most of the prisoners are very very devout Muslim fundamentalists (i.e. liars) and will tell you lots of things (for example that the Jews cause tsunamis).

 

on Feb 24, 2009

Not just tsunamis! But also cause hurricanes, ebola, bubonic plague, death camps, concentration camps, the Egyptian pyramids (we should get some type of reimburstment for that one. I know we took all of their gold, but still). 


Wait a minute! It sounds like we're talking about George W. Bush here too. Well except he caused those very very 'nice' men to 'accidently' fly someone else's planes in those two big 'eye sore' skyscapers.

Aren't prisons suppose to be a form (a very poor form) of punishment? I believe if you do a crime you should get punished for it the whole incarceration does not work.

on Feb 24, 2009

bubonic plague

That was a good one!

 

Aren't prisons suppose to be a form (a very poor form) of punishment?

I'm not sure. I don't care about punishing people. I just want them to be away from me so they cannot hurt me.

Problem is, about two thirds of those poor innocent people already released from Gitmo returned to terrorism within just a few months and now sit in prisons in Yemen and places like that where they will be tortured or executed. That's fine with me, but what about those who demanded their release from Gitmo? Who will they answer to regarding those people's victims AND the fact that they are now being tortured?

 

on Feb 24, 2009

Incidentally:

1. Those like me who don't care if terrorists are being tortured or executed but want to keep them in Gitmo: EVIL PEOPLE.

2. Those who care more about terrorists than hungry Africans and worked for terrorists' release from Gitmo resulting in them murdering more people and being captured again and then tortured or executed: GOOD PEOPLE.

I personally think the world would be a better place if there were fewer good people and more evil people. Fewer people would be murdered by terrorists and fewer terrorists would be tortured and executed. But that's just me.

 

 

on Feb 25, 2009

As before with Iraq Obama seems to realise slowly that problems cannot be solved with "hope". And I realise that some things are only evil when George Bush does them.

i must be missing something here.  after reading your title and the statement quoted, i went to the linked article where i was unable to locate any indication of obama's response to the report. 

seal of approval?  hell, not even a hint as to whether he'd read it. 

not that an investigation of the pentagon by the pentagon requires any sorta scrutiny or review by anyone other than the pentagon.

on Feb 25, 2009

seal of approval?  hell, not even a hint as to whether he'd read it.

Do you believe that the findings were published before the President who ordered the report read it?

Not even I think that President Obama would be that incompetent.

 

on Feb 25, 2009

Do you believe that the findings were published before the President who ordered the report read it?

what i believe isn't important.

what i know is there's no basis in the article you cited for your claim it bears his "seal of approval".

what i suspect is your intellectual ethic.

what i doubt is your ability to read obama's mind.

 

on Feb 25, 2009

what i know is there's no basis in the article you cited for your claim it bears his "seal of approval".

what i suspect is your intellectual ethic.

what i doubt is your ability to read obama's mind.

Oh boy, you read a lot into one headline.

 

on Feb 25, 2009

you read a lot into one headline.

 

i'm not the one who pulled Guantanamo gets the Messiah's Seal of Approval out of Review Finds Detainees' Treatment before leaping to:

As before with Iraq Obama seems to realise slowly that problems cannot be solved with "hope".

on Feb 26, 2009

Why do you assume that the "Messiah" is Obama?

If you want to play games with headlines, why not start there?

 

on Feb 26, 2009

If you want to play games with headlines, why not start there?

dammit now i gotta reconcile an obvious overestimation.