We were careless once, and thousands of people died. Let us not make the same mistake again.
Thus ends Varifrank's post. (Erin, you're gonna like this one.)
Posted by Sarah at June 15, 2005 07:18 AMRequired reading! Thanks for the link.
Posted by: Mary at June 15, 2005 08:59 PMWhat if we win the war but wind up losing the moral principles that make us American:
"On a couple of occasions, I entered interview rooms to find a detainee chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor, with no chair, food or water. Most times they urinated or defecated on themselves, and had been left there for 18-24 hours or more. On one occasion, the air conditioning had been turned down so far and the temperature was so cold in the room, that the barefooted detainee was shaking with cold....On another occasion, the [air conditioner] had been turned off, making the temperature in the unventilated room well over 100 degrees. The detainee was almost unconscious on the floor, with a pile of hair next to him. He had apparently been literally pulling his hair out throughout the night. On another occasion, not only was the temperature unbearably hot, but extremely loud rap music was being played in the room, and had been since the day before, with the detainee chained hand and foot in the fetal position on the tile floor."
Posted by: Mr. Silly at June 16, 2005 05:20 AM