A National Shame

When I was young and learned about slavery or the Japanese interned during WWII I always wondered how the hell people living at the time could let that happen. I can guarantee that it when future generations read about Guantanamo they will think the same thing, from the front story on CNN.com:

"On several occasions witnesses saw detainees in interrogation rooms chained hand and foot in fetal position to floor with no chair/food/water; most urinated or defecated on selves and were left there 18, 24 hours or more," according to one FBI account made public. One FBI witness saw a detainee "shaking with cold," while another noted a detainee in a sweltering unventilated room was "almost unconscious on a floor with a pile of hair next to him (he had apparently been pulling it out through the night)."

Another witness saw a detainee "with a full beard whose head was wrapped in duct tape." One FBI statement said that an interrogator squatted over the Quran and that a German shepherd dog was ordered to "growl, bark and show his teeth to the prisoner." Another detainee was draped in an Israeli flag.

I am glad that more stories are coming out in the media. Guantanamo is our national shame. We need to close that place down.