How are conditions at gitmo?

I heard the conditions at guantanimo bay are better then some of these terrorist are used to in there own countries. Also we give them full medical and dental. We gave a prisoner named omoud a prostetic leg, and then he helped cordinate attacks aimed at...

americans. He lost his leg while fighting along side the taliban, and we gave him a new leg, so he could turn around and become a freedom fighter for a terrorist group.

Unbelievable

Prison conditions = a non issue...it's the lack of fair trial that's an issue for the prisoners there.

When was the last time somebody from *your* family was imprisoned, anywhere, without due process? I'm curious.

Well, actually...I don't think you have to be "related" to know that foreigners are imprisioned all over the world without due process...course "due process" isn't necessarily a right in many countries...

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My family obviously had no connection with terrorism, or else they would probably be in jail too. Prisoners of WAR fall under different jurisdiction.

Nor do some of those held at gitmo if the news media is in any way accurate on the issue...there was a report released after 7 years, no due process, no reason for them to be held in jail.

Of course, our government = flawless, they never mess up, right? So...obviously, it was a foreigner who snuck the journalist into the jail so they could rot, and we just couldn't *find them* for that seven years.

thedude is absolutely right, the conditions are not the issue. The denial of habeus corpus is. It is outrageous that our government would deny the most fundamental of all civil rights to anyone.

And as far as conditions at gitmo compared to the prisoners native countries, what does that have to do with anything? Are we to measure how we treat human beings based on what the most brutal regimes in the world do to theirs? I would hope our standards would be among the highest in the world, not the lowest.

Yeah, and if the detainees are *really* lucky, they get to do this cool thing called waterboarding! Sounds like surfing, right?

A gallon of water may save hundreds of gallons of blood. I dont take to the "blame America first crowd." We make mistakes, but this country is made up of good people. And a handful of them are freely elected to run our country and to protect us. And for 7 years they have done just that.

SEN. JOHN McCAIN: If we inflict this cruel and inhumane treatment, the cruel actions of a few darken the reputation of our country in the eyes of millions. American values should win against all others in any war of ideas, and we can't let prisoner abuse tarnish our image.

***A gallon of water may save hundreds of gallons of blood.***

An example, please, of a single case where information obtained at Gitmo has saved human lives. Or for that matter, the name of all the detainees at Gitmo successfully found guilty of committing acts of terrorism against US assets.

rickd, this is something so basic, and so essential to a democracy, it can not be just dismissed away with something so benign as "We make mistakes". This was not a mistake, it was a crime. It did nothing to keep us safe. It has actually made us less safe, because our treatment of these prisoners has been a recruitment tool for terroror groups, and has grown their ranks. It is not blame america first. If these people are guilty, then give them due process. If they are not release them. It is that simple. Our laws allow for nothing else.

If you find this acceptable, I would suggest you read the bill of rights very closely.