Evil Empire

The United Nations and the European Parliament have called on the U.S. to close down the torture camp at Guantanamo Bay or put the prisoners there on trial. White House spokesman Scott McClennan said the report released by the UN "appears to be a rehash of some of the allegations that have been made by lawyers for some of the detainees and we know that al Qaeda detainees are trained in trying to disseminate false allegations."

So Al Qaeda trained these men to make up lies about being captured and held by the U.S. when? Along with those camps where they jog and jump on monkey bars they have a course titled: "How to Disseminate False Allegations About Your Conditions In Case You Are Captured by the U.S." And somehow this is getting to the UN through attorneys for those Al Qaeda trained prisoners, because the UN didn't speak to anyone presently detained at Guantanamo - the U.S. didn't allow it. McClellan's response to the calls to close down the prison just don't make sense.

McClellan also said, "These are dangerous terrorists that we're talking about that are there and I think we've talked about that issue before and nothing's changed in terms of our views." But the UN did talk to former prisoners from Guantanamo who had been released - they must not have been dangerous terrorists, and after a year or so of being held without trial the U.S. finally figured that out. (And if those guys weren't ultimately dangerous terrorists, they were certainly not trained by Al Qaeda to disseminate false allegations.)

Scott, if these are dangerous terrorists, then put them on trial; if they aren't, then shut down the torture camp - you goofy fascist.

Speaking of torture camps, new photos of Abu Ghraib torture were released. Most of the media made much about how embarrassing this is for the U.S. military, not much about how absolutely horrific it is and whether Americans are going to be held accountable.