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"You," said Dr. Yavitch, "are a middle-road liberal, and you haven't the slightest idea what you want. I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want - and what I want right now is a drink" ~~ Sinclair Lewis ~~
Time magazine has obtained the 84 page interrogation log book which detail the treatment of a prisoner at Guantanamo. The log details how the prisoner was subjected to 50 days of interrogation. During that time, he was refused "bathroom break and forcing him to urinate in his pants", wear degrading pictures hung around his neck, forced into 'stress positions', forced to dance with a MRE box strapped to his head, forced to act like a dog and given "lessons such as stay, come, and bark", another time, the detainee was "laid out on the floor", and "MPs were holding his legs down with their hands" while the interrogator "straddled him". The interrogator states that this was done to "engage closeness with the detainee" and "inform the detainee of the changes the Saudi government has been making in order to support the efforts of peace". During the period covered by the logbook, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved 16 additional interrogation techniques for use on certain detainees. The techniques approved by Rumsfeld included "standing for prolonged periods, isolation for as long as 30 days, removal of clothing, forced shaving of facial hair" and hanging "pictures of scantily clad women around his neck." Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, from Nebraska criticized the pentagon, and Guantanamo. Some quotes ... "It's not appropriate, it's not at all within the standards of who we are as a civilized people, what our laws are.
"If in fact we are treating prisoners this way, it's not only wrong, it's dangerous and very dumb and very shortsighted."
"This is not how you win the people of the world over to our side, especially the Muslim world."
Hagel said such treatment should offend the sensibilities of "any straight-thinking American, any straight-thinking citizen of the world."
Hagel raised questions about the quality of leadership that would allow such things to happen, drawing a comparison to his own experience fighting in Vietnam.
"We've been reassured for the last two years it's not happening when in fact it is happening," he said.
"There's either a culture of leadership or there's not," he said. "This kind of stuff will fill the vacuum, and it needs to stop."
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