"War Crimes" At Guantanamo Bay
Great series of posts last night, guys. The Kinsley column equating our purportedly "illegal" treatment of detainees with Saddam's war crimes is vintage Kinsley--clever but fundamentally stupid. This ties in with the Michelle Malkin column I linked to yesterday, which quoted several detainees describing their own treatment:
"[N]early all of the former detainees enthusiastically praised the conditions at Guantanamo and expressed little bitterness about losing a year of their lives in captivity, saying they were treated better there than in three days in squalid cells in Kabul. None complained of torture during questioning or coerced confessions."
"The freed detainees said they were allowed to pray five times daily, exercise, and were given books written in Pashtu. Upon their release, as parting gifts, the Afghan men received new shirts, jeans, tennis shoes and gym bags (to carry their Korans)."
"Sirajuddin, 24, a Kandahar taxi driver, said: 'The conditions were even better than our homes. We were given three meals a day -- eggs in the morning and meat twice a day; facilities to wash, and if we didn't wash, they'd wash us; and there was even entertainment with video games.'"
"'There is no need to lie,' Sayed Abasin, 21, told the Chicago Tribune. 'I'm telling you the facts. They treated us very well.'"
If any Americans survive captivity in Iraq, we can contrast their accounts with these. In the meantime, Kinsley's cynical anti-Americanism shows once again how low the left has fallen.
