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To: Road Walker who wrote (238280)	6/21/2005 9:01:52 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572633

The idea that a president can legalize the unlawful evidently came from a series of memorandums written by Justice Department officials. They argued, among other things, that President Bush's authority as commander in chief to set interrogation methods could trump treaties and federal law. Although President Bush decided to deny detainees at Guantánamo the protection of the Geneva Conventions, he did order that they must be treated "humanely." The Pentagon, responding to the Time magazine article on the treatment of Mr. Kahtani, said, "The Department of Defense remains committed to the unequivocal standard of humane treatment for all detainees, and Kahtani's interrogation plan was guided by that strict standard." In the view of the administration, then, it is "humane" to give a detainee 3½ bags of I.V. fluid and then make him urinate on himself, force him to bark like a dog, or chain him to the floor for 18 hours. After four years, what could they possibly be learning from these people that's worth degrading our democratic principles to this extent? Mind boggling. Al

To: Road Walker who wrote (238280)	6/21/2005 1:40:14 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572633

WHEN Vice President Dick Cheney said last week that detainees at the American prison camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, were treated better than they would be "by virtually any other government on the face of the earth," he was carrying on what has become a campaign to whitewash the record of abuses at Guantánamo. Right-wing commentators have been sounding the theme. Columnist Charles Krauthammer said the treatment of the Guantánamo prisoners had been "remarkably humane and tolerant." Yes, and there is no elephant in the room. Gitmo is what makes Cheney and his crowd very dangerous. They don't seen people as humans but rather as pawns. Whether innocent or guilty of any wrongdoing, all Afghans and Iraqis are the enemy and must be diminished. ted