U.S. Says It Fears Detainee Abuse in Repatriation
A long-running effort by the Bush administration to send home many of the terror suspects held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has been stymied in part because of concern among United States officials that the prisoners may not be treated humanely by their own governments, officials said.
I'm sorry, but I just find that too funny.
Having abused and shackled these men - keeping them in a legal black hole for, in some cases up to three years, without access to lawyers or legal redress - the US is now continuing to hold them because it worries about their human rights?
That's simply Kafkaesque.
You do wonder sometimes how people can make these inane, hypocritical, statements and manage to keep their faces straight as they spew this hyperbole.
Guantanamo is a dark stain on America's worldwide reputation, and pointing out that some other country's also implement torture, hardly diminishes the US's original crime.
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