In remarks to be broadcast today on Fox News, Cheney said the administration was reviewing its options at the prison "on a continuous basis." But he defended its track record, saying, "The important thing here to understand is that the people that are at Guantanamo are bad people."I didn't know that. Keep on keepin' on, then.
Of course, a good portion of Guantanamo detainees are referred to as detainees and not prisoners because they haven't actually been charged with any crime.
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But wait, there's more:
Cheney Calls Guantánamo Prison Essential
Vice President Dick Cheney strongly defended the American prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on Monday, saying that it was essential to the administration's efforts to combat terrorism and that detainees there had been treated better by the United States than they could expect to be treated "by virtually any other government on the face of the earth."
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Mr. Cheney dismissed those who say the prison should be shut down. "My own personal view of it is that those who are most urgently advocating that we shut down Guantánamo probably don't agree with our policies anyway," Mr. Cheney said.
The thing that's so mind-blowing about this is that Cheney really thinks things are OK. That, even if we're not sentencing prisoners to gang-rapes or anything like (of course we couldn't, since they're not prisoners - they're detainees), we still shouldn't hold ourselves to a higher standard.
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