Amnesty International report on Guantanamo is criticized

[Judi Lynn]

May 27, 2005, 10:11PM

Amnesty International report on Guantanamo is criticized
U.S. general says characterization is 'exaggerated'
By CAROL ROSENBERG
Knight Ridder Tribune News

NEW YORK - Calling it "a shrill assessment," Army Gen. Bantz Craddock on Friday rejected Amnesty International's characterization of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp as a "gulag."

Craddock lamented criticism of the Pentagon's premier prison for terror suspects in his first on-the-record U.S. news conference since taking charge of U.S. military activities in Latin America and the Caribbean six months ago.

He bristled at the language the human rights group used in its third annual and harshest rebuke of the U.S. detention camp, which holds about 520 terror suspects.

"That's unfortunate. I don't think that's the case," he said. "I think that's a shrill assessment; they probably exaggerated for emphasis. ... I think that's an uninformed view."
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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/world/3201645



General Bantz Craddock

[Englander]

1. "Bantz Craddock?!?!?"

Wasn't Colonel "Bat" Guano available?

Or General Jack D. Ripper?

:silly:

http://www.cinema.com/films/3781/dr_strangelove/cast.phtml

[wickerwoman]

2. Typical...

He can't refute the evidence so he attacks the supposed tone that it is delivered in. "I don't think that's the case... they probably exaggerated." Either he knows squat about the situation in Guatanemo or he didn't bother to read the report. Probably both. Get back to us when you can make definitive statements Crads.

[zanne]

10. Amnesty International asked to see Guantanamo for themselves....

but were denied several times. Now, they can be called "uninformed" because they've never been there!

[pacifictiger]

3. Amnesty International

is turning up the heat on bushie so you can expect many more attempts to discredit the organization - thats how they work - a la newsweek, Dan Rather, etc.

[izzie]

5. Hard to think when your sitting under the Cross.

----

[sweettater]

4. well, excuse me, sir

you don't THINK that is the case? Why in the hell don't you KNOW that is the case. I sit here in awe at the stupidity of supposedly the most powerful military on the planet. There has got to be a disconnect somewhere.

[DrDebug]

6. How about conforming to Human Rights and the Geneve Convention

Isn't Guantanamo a scandal, because those basic rights are being ignored? Aren't they POWs? Isn't torture forbidden?

The uninformed view is that general does not want to admit that he is violating the US Constitution which the general swore to uphold against any enemy foreign and DOMESTIC.

[etherealtruth]

14. Didn't Cuckoobananas ...

...and cabal, decide the prisoners at GITMO were not POW's and therefore the "quaint" Geneva Convention did NOT apply? Made me ill at the time and I've grown sicker with each revelation ...

[thebigidea]

7. ah, he's that little guy always crammed up Rummy's ass, eh?

his pet general, always in the background...

As if anyone gave a shit what he thought about anything. As if he'd criticize his boss.

[jimshoes]

8. His real name

was Renfield :evilgrin:

[LeighAnn]

9. I think...probably...I think

Here's a guy who's really sure of himself.

[mbperrin]

11. Shrill? Oh, my, we'll watch our tone...you just

get back to your torture, k?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

12. Craddock lamented criticism of the Pentagon's premier prison for terror...

The Pentagon's premier prison for terror suspects????

What is this? Fucking advertising copy?

Day-um! I gots to book me and Mable a room down thar in the Caribbean!

[LibDemAlways]

13. Since you can expect anyone speaking on

behalf of the BFEE to say the exact opposite of what they are really thinking, here's a rough translation of Craddock's actual thoughts with what he left out in parentheses.

"That's unfortunate, (that Amnesty International has the goods on us.) I don't think that's the case. (In fact I know that's the case.)
I think that's a shrill assessment (Gee, I hope somebody's buying this bs. That was a flat out lie.) They probably exaggerated for emphasis. (If anything, they don't know the half of it.) I think that's an uninformed view. (The reality is worse than anything they could imagine...How'd I do Rummy?)"

[bobthedrummer]

15. Revolution in Political and Military Affairs/RPMA ("fictional" doctrine)

Our officer corps became increasingly politicized during the late 20th century and militarism is part of PNAC.

In the fall of 1996 this USAF/INSS Occasional Paper, a study of the efficacy of US military coup written as a futuristic address, came out.

Read this slowly and think about the Rumsfeld/Myers DoD. Think about the Douglas Feith special Offices in the Pentagon. Note the barely contained hatred for President Clinton in the opening paragraphs of the RPMA/Revolution in Political and Military Affairs from the USAF/INSS.

I'd bet General Craddock read it. It won awards from the Pentagon after publication.

RPMA
http://www.guerrillacampaign.com/coup.htm

[Coastie for Truth]

16. Bantz Craddock - Commander of the "Southern Command"

That is the command that is going into Venezuela to "protect our oil fields."

[libodem]

17. they'd better be running scared

they have violated so many of the moral and ethical values of all cross-cultural norms that they can never redeem themselves. Their only avenue of escape is to the face the music and take their punishment. The world knows, America knows, how can they, think lies will change reality. They are delusional. Their personal assets should be seized and they should be imprisoned or thrown out of the country.