--- Mervyn Lobo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well said, Bosco! > Since we are on the topic of reconciling, I also > want > to ask the Americans here to do something about the > terrible situation in Guant�namo Bay. > Mario replies: Natan Sharanski, who was a prisoner at a Soviet Gulag, and knows a lot more about these things from personal experience than Mervyn and Santosh, has blasted Amnesty International for making such bogus comparisons. Of course, the anti-Americans, who don't know the difference between a Soviet Gulag and Gitmo, were delighted by Amnesty International, little knowing that the organization was admitting under questioning that it knew little or nothing about what is going on in Gitmo.
On Fox News Sunday on June 5, Amnesty International Exec. Director William Schulz admitted he had no idea what was going on in Gitmo, notwithstanding his organization's comparing it with a Soviet style gulag. Some excerpts: WALLACE: Now, Secretary Rumsfeld did, we believe, approve putting prisoners in stress positions for prolonged periods of time, stripping them naked and even using dogs to frighten them. Mr. Schulz, do you have any evidence whatsoever that he ever approved beating of prisoners, ever approved starving of prisoners, the kinds of things we normally think of as torture? SCHULZ: It would be fascinating to find out. I have no idea... The transcript of the interview can be read at: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,158542,00.html
