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Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Hotel Guantanamo Better than Belgium

According to Alain Grignard, head of Brussels' police anti-terrorism unit, Guantanamo is a model prison, and prisoners are better treated than they are in Belgium. While I'm not surprised (can anyone name three things that Belgium does better than the US?) this is one thing that I'm not very proud of. Navy Rear Admiral Harry Harris explains:

These are enemy combatants. Yet here's what they get:
- food which is 3x as expensive as food eaten by US servicemen
- $30MM facility to make detainees' lives better, including exercising equipment
- koran from 40 different countries
- thousands of books and magazines written in native languages
- $2.4MM hospital where 300 surgeries and 5000 dental procedures performed
- 200 pairs of eyeglasses
- time and space to pray 5x daily

What US servicemen get in return:
- feces, blood, and semen concoctions thrown at them daily

These people are treated 10x better than they are treated in their home countries with one exception - they don't get to kill Americans.

For once, maybe we should follow Belgium's lead on this one (first time this has been said in the history of the world). Let's treat these prisoners like crap. Anyone think they deserve better?