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May 26, 2005
Flushed

Well, what do you know... It turns out that the Newsweek Qu'ran flushing story may very well have been true, and it was in fact the administration and other clamoring Republicans who were lying and exploiting the situation for political advantage.

That's weird, huh?

Newly released documents show that detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, complained repeatedly to F.B.I. agents about disrespectful handling of the Koran by military personnel and, in one case in 2002, said they had flushed a Koran down a toilet.

The prisoners' accounts are described by the agents in detailed summaries of interrogations at Guantánamo in 2002 and 2003. The documents were among more than 300 pages turned over by the F.B.I. to the American Civil Liberties Union in recent days and publicly disclosed Wednesday.

NY Times

In related news, Amnesty International released a report citing the Bush administration for condoning and authorizing "attrocious" human rights violations and operating the "gulag of our times" at Guantanamo Bay.

By way of response, Scott McClellan issued this Orwellian nonsense..

"I think the allegations are ridiculous, and unsupported by the facts. The United States is leading the way when it comes to protecting human rights and promoting human dignity. We have liberated 50 million people in Iraq and Afghanistan. We have worked to advance freedom and democracy in the world so that people are governed under a rule of law, that there are protections in place for minority rights, that women's rights are advanced so that women can fully participate in societies where now they cannot."

The rule of law? These guys break, change, and make up laws like it's a bodily function.

Human dignity? I wonder which "stress position" makes our un-indicted prisoners feel the most dignified... Is it the waterboarding? I think it's probably the waterboarding.

Might want to keep a lightning rod handy, McClellan..

Posted by ahecht at May 26, 2005 1:21 AM
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