The sanctimonious, self-serving jerks who serve in the U.S. Senate like Daniel Inhofe are too much for NewMexiKen. Today Inhofe said,
The idea that these prisoners, they’re not there for traffic violations. If they’re in cell block 1A or 1B, these prisoners, they’re murderers, they’re terrorists, they’re insurgents, and many of them probably have American blood probably on their hands and here we’re so concerned about the treatment of those individuals.
The Red Cross tells us however, that “military intelligence officers told the ICRC that in their estimate between 70% and 90% of the persons deprived of their liberty in Iraq had been arrested by mistake.”
Furthermore, the purpose of the Geneva Convention is to protect our servicemen should they be captured. It’s a reciprocal agreement among civilized nations, of which we presume to be one.
Pointer via Kos.
Update: CNN implied McCain walked out on Inhofe’s remarks. They all should have!
I read in the current Newsweek that we have 50,000 prisoners locked up there, and in horrendous conditions. I simply can’t don’t beleive that they are all guilty of terrorism.