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Originally posted by tw

Maybe god hates us. He has given us the president we deserve. Just another reason for the world to so suddenly go from admiring Americans to disliking Americans. (don't tell right wing extremist Americans who never understood why the world hates them). Clearly god is punishing us. He gave us George Jr. Those American prison guards were only doing what the president advocated - Camp Delta.

I'm not quite ready to build a conspiracy theory around this. Basically we under-supported the prison in order to supply manpower to a badly overstretched occupation force. Conspiracy theories imply competence. This was just another cluster fuck caused by bad planning and lack of support, not to mention politicizing the war in not allowing the generals fighting it to ask for the forces they really need and getting rid of the ones who actually do give reasonable estimates.

It will be interesting if this news will affect the Supreme Courts hearing of the two cases before it about Camp Delta. I am especially interested in how the US intends to justify taking a US citizen in custody inside the US and specifically shipping him outside the US to deny him his legal rights, then pretending that a US military base is not US soil. If a suspect fled the country he would be charged with Interstate flight to avoid prosecution. So is the governments action 'International flight to avoid defense?".

With these pictures coming out, any country with citizens in Camp Delta will be under pressure to demand oversight.

BTW, Joe Scarborough's spin on this is so bizarre that he must be doing it for ratings. He really can't possibly believe what he is saying, can he?