Thursday, November 03, 2005

The bastard recommends a diet

"There are a number of people who go on a diet where they don’t eat for a period and then go off of it at some point. And then they rotate and other people do that.

”Julia Tarver, a lawyer for the detainees, had told the court she learned during a visit to the base several weeks ago of force-feedings that caused prisoners to vomit blood. Tarver wrote, “When they vomited up blood, the soldiers mocked and cursed at them, and taunted them with statements like ‘look what your religion has brought you.’”

Rumsfeld: "To be in an 8-by-8 cell in beautiful, sunny Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is not inhumane treatment."
Frontline's "The Torture Question" provides the context for understanding how the rules were confused, how lines of authority were blurred, and what happens when the authorization of "coercive interrogation" makes it way into the battle zone.

You can watch Frontline's American Torture show online.


2 comments:

My Daily Struggles said...
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Gary said...

The above was very long and very irrelevant and self-labeled as blog spam.