The brutality of the place is truely disgusting. Are these people going to be detained without legal recourse for ever?
Belgium prime minister just visited the guatanamo bay facilities. And according to them the prison was a hell of alot better then alot of european prisons. So were's your anger and spite about those prisons?

Originally posted by Kanamori
Only in that their body isn't really being cut up to get the terrible fear and stress that leads to depression. They're clever, they can make someone's psyche like the pysches of those people with joints undone. It's that feeling of total isolation and dissolution that makes torture so awful, they just used to only be able to affect that state of mind by harming people's bodies; now they can do it w/o most of the unsightliness.
Depression my @$$, just about anything you do these days can lead to depression. Driving in traffic, drinking to much coffee, having children, all these and many more (I once heard a psychiatrist say with apsolute certanty sex between minors leads to depression) lead to depression. Apparently everything leads to depression these days so using depression as a reason not to interogate someone is rather a weak statement. Giving them a popsicle and asking them very nicely, were are your terrorist friends, wont work. I'm sure in your infinate wisdom of criminology you can tell me how to get the information out of them?

Originally posted by Taffy_is_a_Taff
I thought you had to be a signatory of the various Geneva conventions to have them apply to your soldiers. And soldiers is the operative word as I believe they also have to be part of a proper uniformed state army too.
I believe you are correct there. I highly doubt that the taliban would have bothered to sign such a piece of western culture as that also. The geneva charter does go into what is a spy and what you can do to them also. I'm pretty sure alot of those guys in guantanamo would fall into that catagory also. As for wether you could or could not sue the U.S.A. government you'd have a hefty case to argue, one that you werent a spy secondly that you werent doing something illegal.