Degrading Treatment At Guantanamo Called "Humane"

An official report released to the the Senate Armed Services Committee says that interrogators "degraded and abused" a prisoner but did not torture him. According to the report by AP A military report presented before the Senate Armed Services Committee stated a Saudi man, described as the "20th hijacker" slated to have participated in the September 11, 2001, attacks on America, was forced by interrogators in late 2002 to wear a bra and had women's thong underwear placed on his head. U.S. interrogators also told him he was a homosexual, forced him to dance with a male interrogator, told him his mother and sister were whores, forced him to wear a leash and perform dog tricks, menaced him with a dog and regularly subjected him to interrogations up to 20 hours a day for about two months, the report said. The general who presented this report apparently stated "As the bottom line, though, we found no torture. Detention and interrogation operations were safe, secure and humane." Humane? How the hell can they call this kind of treatment humane? At the risk of being told I am aiding or feeling sorry for terrorists or called a whining liberal let me say this. Prove the person guilty, lock 'em up and throw away the key if their guilt is proven. But damn it this is not the way a civilized country treats its' detainees no matter how evil they are. I don't feel sorry for the detainee at all, but what I do feel sorry for is the reputation of a nation that was once the most respected and admired country in the world for its' civility and humaneness. Thanks to King George and the rest of the neocons in that illegal administration, not to mention their right-wing extremist enablers in Congress, the US is fast becoming one of the most despised countries in the world. What's worse, is that the honest and decent peoples that make up most of the population are painted with the same brush.