The prision by the bay

I can't understand why, if Cheney continues to proclaim that we treat Guantanamo detainees with "respect and dignity" anyway, why not just agree that all people deserve the protections of the Geneva Conventions, work to clean up the mess the current policy has created, and give yourself a huge PR victory? After all, for the most part that's all the Geneva Conventions ask, isn't it? That you treat folks with "respect and dignity"?

Instead, Cheney's "correct" policy is forcing inmates to urinate themselves and making them listen to Christina Aguilera music. That sounds about as far away from "respect and dignity" to me. And I guess you can torture all you want as long as you provide detainees with a nice meal when you are finished. No hard feeling about those repeated blows to the legs or the sleep deprivation, huh? Have a fresh chalupa and a medium coke. See how nice we are?

That said, I'm not for closing the place down, but simply cleaning the place up a little bit.