Rep. Hunter’s Denial Diet
Rep. Hunter’s Denial Diet
Tales of abuse, torture and humiliation at the prison at Guantanamo Bay are well-known. Last year, internal FBI memos showed methods used at the camp included leaving prisoners “in their own feces,” chaining them “in ice-cold or super-hot cells” and exposing them to sensory deprivation, beatings and terrifying dogs.
In its recent issue, Time Magazine obtained a log kept at Guantanamo Bay detailing the treatment of Detainee 063, Mohammed al-Qahtani. One military official described it as the “kind of document that was never meant to leave Gitmo.” It describes various forms of humiliation and abuse:
“They strip-search him and briefly make him stand nude. They tell him to bark like a dog and growl at pictures of terrorists. They hang pictures of scantily clad women around his neck.” In another instance, “a dog was used ‘in an aggressive manner to intimidate Detainee #63.” By the end of his “interrogation” period, “al-Qahtani had been ’subjected to intense isolation for over three months’ and ‘was evidencing behavior consistent with extreme psychological trauma (talking to non existent people, reporting hearing voices, crouching in a cell covered with a sheet for hours on end).”
So how did Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) respond to the ongoing tales of serious abuse at Guantanamo Bay?
Now, how do we treat these people? I sent down yesterday for the menu from Guantanamo, so that the average American could understand how we’re brutalizing people in Guantanamo, and I’ve got it right here. For Sunday they’re going to be having — let me see — orange-glazed chicken, fresh fruit groupe, steamed peas and mushrooms, rice pilaf, another form of torture for the hijackers. We treat them very well.
Warning to Rep. Hunter: Denial leaves a bitter aftertaste.
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Don’t forget the music – Christina Aguilera. Apparently, the guards were not that serious or they would have played Ashley Simpson
June 12th, 2005 at 5:22 pmAre all Republicans sicko’s?
June 12th, 2005 at 9:01 pmI know dumb question..
Evidently Hunter is name of the WHine they’re serving too.
June 12th, 2005 at 9:43 pmThe Marines stripped prisoners?!! Better than torturing them like Saddam did. All you anti-american dipshits ought to be thrown in Abu Graib when Saddam was under control.
June 12th, 2005 at 10:14 pmWhy would Saddam imprison “anti-American” Americans? I don’t get it, Johnny American. Poor Sean Penn must have had a terrible time there. Maybe he wasn’t “anti-american” enough.
You do know that the marines seem to attract the most closeted gays, don’t you?
June 12th, 2005 at 10:24 pmHey Johnny,
June 12th, 2005 at 10:24 pmIf you have been up on things you’d understand that stripping detainees is not all that goes on in our military detention centers.
And maybe you have forgotten the law of OUR land, INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY BY A COURT OF LAW.
A REAL American does not stoop to Saddam’s level.
Remember, we are not third world barbarians.
But if you agree with it, join the military and have a good time.
But remember, when the Human Rights groups want justice, don’t expect your superiors to be there for you..
You get to go it alone like Lindy,
i think BUSH needs to help some of his own people right here in the states before helping others ,he needs to remember that they can’t vote for him ,but we can vote him out .we have people right in his same city without food and he feels the need to go over seas first . I want to now what he’s smoking ,because he needs to share with the rest of us .
June 13th, 2005 at 9:55 amhttp://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/06/12.html#a3409
June 13th, 2005 at 10:09 amhere’s the video clip of HUnter and the geat eatings at Gitmo
I viewed the video at C&L. I am disturbed that we are feeding the hijackers such excellent fare. It seems such a waste to feed dead people. Or did hunter let it slip that the “hijackers” are actually being held there?
June 13th, 2005 at 10:15 amHow stupid is Hunter? They’re not feeding hijackers at Gitmo. Last time I noticed, all the hijackers were dead.
June 13th, 2005 at 3:44 pmYeah wake up. The highjackers are dead. Who cares what they’re fed at Gitmo anyway. That wasn’t in any of the complaints about their treatment. But Bonehead Hunter’s even bringing up the menu while ignoring the real problem and refering to the prisoners as highjackers tells me that this administration is living in an alternate universe. They don’t and won’t get it because they are all rich white conservative elitists who haven’t got a clue.
June 14th, 2005 at 2:54 pmThe stuff about the menu was a cynical attempt to distract people from the facts. The point is that the people being held at Guantanamo are being denied their rights to a trial by a jury of their peers.
They’d never dare to do that to US citizens, would they????
June 14th, 2005 at 8:02 pmHow hard can it be to get a conviction? Were you captured fighting for the Taliban? Yes? Then you’re guilty. Need a witness? Then bring the soldier who captured him. After all, Bush said we won the war in Iraq over two years ago, so those soldiers must have a lot of free time on their hands now.
How incompetent do you have to be to not be able to convict blatant terrorists? Oh, right.
June 15th, 2005 at 12:43 pmMenu’s don’t mean a thing. For 3 months on active duty our dining facility fed us ham 2 times a day until the food services officer and NCOIC were caught selling the food to locals, we were supposed to get.
June 15th, 2005 at 5:51 pmThe problem with “abuse” is not that it violates “rules of war” but that it doesn’t work.
June 16th, 2005 at 9:52 amBy definition, and almost as a job requirement, the soldiers manning Gitmo are thugs. What the commanders fail to realize is that the detainees are USED to rotten treatment, since that is how they treat their prisoners (or worse).
The only thing that will work is controlled reverse-psychology. Get them fat and comfortable and they will not want to fight.
(And I am serious.)
As If an Apple Made Up for Torture
June 16th, 2005 at 2:44 pmThe latest attempt by the right-wing apologists to justify torture has been to point out what the Guantanamo detainees get to eat. That’s what Congressman Duncan Hunter tried to do recently on Fox News when he tried to justify the…
This independant, moderate voter cannot beleive what Hunter did and said to justify the mistreatment of prisoners at Gitmo. As a constituent of his I have written him many times and his responses are often trite and condenscending. I am distessed by the fact that those who attacked us on 9-11 seem to have won by making us change our core philosophies. We now have less freedom and liberty since the attacks and argue against the principles of the various Geneva Conventions. Dick Durbin’s comment is now being taken totally out of context thanks to our media with ADD. If you read, or saw the speech iteself, about the specific prisoner mistreatment to which Durbin was referring you certainly would think it was that which took place under Hitler, Stalin or the Khmer Rouge if you didn’t know where or when the mistreatment took place. After all, we pride ourselves as being a nation of laws and better than the rest of the world for our rights of due process and equal protection.
June 17th, 2005 at 5:43 pmTorture is NOT American, nor is denial of such. Please be more truthful with your constuents.
June 18th, 2005 at 9:49 pmITs funny how Duncan Hunter talks about the Detainees to have such a delicious dinner after a grueling day of torture. I wonder if that is what wife beaters say after they beat their wife? ” I know i beat you but look at what i provide for you”. These so called Republicans have serious Pyscological problems to believe this behavior could ever be acceptable.
June 19th, 2005 at 12:07 amWhat I Saw at Gitmo
By Lt. Col. Gordon Cucullu
FrontPageMagazine.com | June 27, 2005
Last week, I was privileged to be part of a Department of Defense trip to the Joint Task Force – Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. I got to see the operations of this “controversialâ€? facility up-close – something particularly important after Sen. Richard Durbin’s comparison of its guard to Nazi stormtroopers and calls of leftists to shut the center down. Our group went to GITMO to check out tales that the military was being too tough on these terrorist detainees. We left convinced that America is being extraordinarily lenient – far too lenient.
After speaking with soldiers, sailors, and civilians who collectively staff Gitmo, I left convinced that abuse definitely exists at the detention facilities, and it typically fails to receive the press attention it deserves: it’s the relentless, merciless attacks on American servicemen and women by these terrorist thugs. Many of the orange jumpsuit-clad detainees fight their captors at every opportunity, openly bragging of their desire to kill Americans. One has promised that, if released, he would find MPs in their homes through the internet, break into their houses at night, and “cut the throats of them and their families like sheep.� Others claim authority and vindication to kill women, children, and other innocents who oppose their jihadist mission authorized by the Koran (the same one that hangs in every cell from a specially-designed holder intended to protect it from a touching the cell floor – all provided at U.S. taxpayer expense). One detainee was heard to tell another: “One day I will enjoy sucking American blood, although their blood is bitter, undrinkable….� These recalcitrant detainees are known euphemistically as being “non-compliant.� They attack guards whenever the soldiers enter their cells, trying to reach up under protective facemasks to gouge eyes and tear mouths. They make weapons and try to stab the guards or grab and break limbs as the guards pass them food.
We dined with the soldiers, toured several of the individual holding camps, observed interrogations, and inspected cells. We were impressed by the universally high quality of the cadre and the facilities. While it may not be exactly “Club GITMO,� as Rush Limbaugh uses to tweak the hard-Left critics who haven’t a clue about reality here, GITMO is a far cry from the harshness experienced even by maximum security prisoners in the U.S.
Meals for detainees are ample: we lunched on what several thought was an accumulated single day’s ration for detainees. “No,� the contract food service manager said with a laugh, “what you’re looking at there is today’s lunch. A single meal. They get three a day like that.� The vegetables, pita bread, and other well-prepared food filled two of the large Styrofoam take-home containers we see in restaurants. Several prisoners have special meal orders like “no tomatoes� or “no peanut products� depending on taste or allergies. “One prisoner,� General Hood said, “throws back his food tray if it contains things he has specifically said he doesn’t want.� How is he punished for this outrageous behavior? His tray is numbered, the food he requested is put on it, and the corrected “order� is delivered to his cell.
The detainees are similarly catered to medically. Almost every one arrived at GITMO with some sort of battlefield trauma. After all, the majority were captured in combat. Today they are healthy, immunized, and well cared for. At a visit to the modern hospital facility – dedicated solely to the detainees and comparable to a well-equipped and staffed small-town hospital with operating, dental, routine facilities – the doctor in charge confirmed that the caloric count for the detainees was so high that while “most detainees arrived undernourished,� medics now watch for issues stemming from high cholesterol and being overweight. Each of approximately 520 terrorists currently held in confinement averages about four medical visits monthly, something one would expect from only a dedicated American hypochondriac. Welcome to the rigors of detention under American supervision.
Of the estimated 70,000 battlefield captures that were made in Afghanistan, only a tiny percentage, something on the order of 800-plus, were eventually evacuated to GITMO. These were the worst of the worst. More than 200 have been released back to their home country – if the U.S. is assured that the detainees would not be tortured by local authorities upon return. These men were freed because they were deemed by ongoing official military review processes to no longer pose a threat, or to possess no useful intelligence. And this process has proven too generous at times: more than 10 released GITMO detainees have been killed or recaptured fighting Americans or have been identified as resuming terrorist activities. Still, the process is up and running for review of cases, and if a Washington DC circuit court approves a government appeal, the system for military tribunals will get started. All mechanisms are in place and ready to go as soon as DoD gets a green light.
There is a good reason these unlawful combatants are being confined. They are evil and dangerous individuals. Yet these thugs are treated with an amazing degree of compassion: They are given ice cream treats and recreational time. They live in clean facilities, and receive a full Muslim religious package of Koran, prayer rug, beads, and prayer oils. An arrow in every cell points to Mecca. The call to prayer is played five times daily. They are not abused, hanged, tortured, beheaded, raped, mutilated, or in any way treated the way that they once treated their own captives – or now treat their guards.
Some questioned whether it were wise to give these radical Islamic fundamentalists the religious supplies that ended up landing them in Gitmo in the first place. “Giving them the Koran is simply something that we think we ought to do as a humane gesture,� said second-in-command Brigadier General Gong. “We’re Americans. That’s how we operate.�
When we challenged military authorities about the seemingly plush environs these would-be murderers receive, the commanding officers stated this was the most productive course. JTF-GITMO commanding officer Brigadier General Jay Hood radiated confidence and determination when fielding challenges from our group about his overly lenient treatment. “It works,� he says simply. “We do not allow torture or mistreatment, period.� How to they guarantee this? By rigorous, on-going training and constant oversight up and down the supervisory chain. As proof that “establishing rapport� with the detainees is far more effective than coercive techniques, General Hood refers skeptics to the massive amount of usable intelligence information JTF-GITMO continues to produce even three years into the program.
You are right to worry about inhumane treatment taking place at GITMO. But your concern should be for the dedicated, well-trained, highly professional American men and women who are subjected to a daily barrage of feces, urine, semen, and spit hurled at them along with vile invective as they implement a humane, enlightened system of confinement on men who want nothing more than to kill Americans. These quiet professional Americans, who live under the motto “Honor Bound for Defense of Freedom,� deserve our utmost respect and concern. Shame on anyone who slanders or disrespects them for short-term and short-sighted political advantage.
June 28th, 2005 at 1:44 am——————————————————————————–
Lt. Col. Gordon Cucullu has been an Army Green Beret lieutenant colonel, as well as a writer, popular speaker, business executive and farmer. His most recent book is Separated at Birth, about North and South Korea.
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