A Pentagon report requested by President Obama on the conditions at the Guantanamo Bay detention center concluded that the prison complies with the humane-treatment requirements of the Geneva Convention. But it makes recommendations for improvements including increasing human contact for the prisoners, according to two government officials who have read parts of it.
Full New York Times-article here.
So, 2 (in words: two) government officials - unnamed, and thus inofficial - on 'reading parts of it', already know enough to state that Geneva Rules are being met at Guantánamo.
Interesting.
The gentlemen Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al. - altogether (war-) criminals who, under different conditions, perhaps would enjoy the pleasures of life in a Russian gulag or a Chinese re-education camp - never said anything different.
Now I am looking forward to Mr. Obama's reaction.
In case Mr. Obama shares the opinion of the mentioned criminals by agreeing to the Pentagon Report and therefore deciding to not close Guantánamo as declared during his election campaign, we get following analogy:
Here - due to my exquisite rudimental English - on 22 February at 23:54 this became a draft and - has been one since.
Today, 61 years after Germany got attacked by Poland - ahem: got it, dear reader? - I think is a fine date to let the draft become a post.
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ReplyDeleteAll I needed to say was that politicians seldom do what they promise to do. They criticise one another in elections time. And then, protect one another when in power.
ReplyDeleteClaude
ReplyDeleteThis is part of the multilemma.
#guantobama
ReplyDeleteQuite, Anon. And in Novovoronezh respectively Нововоро́неж you call them Putinamo?
DeleteGood luck with your nuclear power plants, anyway.