Wednesday, August 03, 2005

Rush Limbaugh facetiously calls it "Club Gitmo." Now some more congressmen have returned from a tour, and it sounds like our prison in Guantanamo might really be "your tropical retreat from the stress of jihad." Representative Jon Porter, quoted in the Las Vegas Review Journal:
Porter, R-Nev., said the military-run camp compares favorably to Nevada prisons, and that many of the captives "are happy to be there," where they can get medical and dental care.

"I would only wish that my loved ones or anyone's loved ones could be treated as well if they were captured by (Osama) bin Laden," Porter said.
Proving that there is no pleasing some people, Amnesty International isn't impressed, and they have adopted the Quantum Prison Observation Theory that the act of inspecting a prison alters its reality:
Mona Cadena, a field organizer for Amnesty International in San Francisco, said Tuesday she was not certain the congressional visitors got a complete picture of Guantanamo. The organization has called for the Bush administration to charge the prisoners under U.S. law or to release them.

"I think it is hard in one day to see the full story," Cadena said. "I think Amnesty knows that whenever anyone is invited to a prison, either on U.S. soil or around the world, that things are prettied up."
Sounds like Amnesty International needs to invest in an SR-71 Blackbird so they can conduct a proper prison inspection, since they obviously don't trust their own eyes.

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