Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Gen. Myers: No torture at Guantanamo Bay
What exactly does he think he's talking about? Didn't we all decide a while ago that what happened at Abu Ghraib amounted exactly to abuse? And aren't many of the same protocols in use at Guantanamo? Even the Supreme Court has ruled that holding the prisoners without trial is illegal, and I'm still not sure who gets to draw the line between violating Geneva conventions and terrorism. This really strikes me as hubris, maybe a product of winning the war on Democrats. I'm not sure why this is coming up now though... ¶
- david | 7:12 PM
"Dismissing charges that tactics used at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, amount to torture, Gen. Richard Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, defended the military's coercion policies today in Indianapolis.
'We certainly don't think it's torture,' Myers said this morning before delivering a speech to the Economic Club of Indianapolis at the Indiana Convention Center.
The U.S. Department of Justice had written guidelines for interrogations of detainees from the war on terrorism, Myers said, and the military followed them.
'Let's not forget the kind of people we have down there,' he said. 'These are the people that don't know any moral values.'"
What exactly does he think he's talking about? Didn't we all decide a while ago that what happened at Abu Ghraib amounted exactly to abuse? And aren't many of the same protocols in use at Guantanamo? Even the Supreme Court has ruled that holding the prisoners without trial is illegal, and I'm still not sure who gets to draw the line between violating Geneva conventions and terrorism. This really strikes me as hubris, maybe a product of winning the war on Democrats. I'm not sure why this is coming up now though... ¶
- david | 7:12 PM
