"Because we are Americans, we don't abuse people who are in our care"

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How bad is the rest of the world laughing at us? How much more embarrassment must we endure? The simple stupid minds that lead our nation have put this nation’s international reputation back years and it will take a long time to recover from it. Here our uh..sterling Sec. of State indicates that Americans do no wrong because er...we're Americans!

LONDON, England (AP) -- One of the British men released from Guantanamo Bay said through his lawyer Friday that American authorities beat him, interrogated him at gunpoint and subjected him to "inhuman conditions" during his detention.

Louise Christian, Tarek Dergoul's attorney, said his family believed his experiences had damaged him psychologically. He was among five Britons returned home from the U.S. Navy base in Cuba and released this week.

He is the second of the group to publicly describe conditions at the camp, where former fellow detainee Jamal al-Harith said earlier he had suffered beatings, humiliation and interrogation for up to 12 hours at a time. Families of all the freed men, who were not charged, have said they were innocents caught up in the American war on terrorism.

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell told a British television network it was "unlikely" abuses were taking place at Guantanamo. "Because we are Americans, we don't abuse people who are in our care," he said.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/03/12/britain.freed.ap/index.html

[DUreader]

1. Powell gets the "good news" version of history

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2. Whoops...this guy was in our care

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3. Whoops again

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4. Nice liitle map

[suegeo]

5. Colin who?

I thought James Baker III replaced Colin as the real secretary of state.

Colin is kinda like that mentally deficient guy in the movie "Office Space." He gets fired, but his dopey bosses forget to tell him that he lost his job. I wonder if Colin has a little red swingline stapler that he clings to.

Powell has no crediblity. I don't much care for his toady son either.

[pompano]

6. Well....

what do they (Powell and the bunch) consider sending all the our jobs overseas and saddleing our Grandchildren with a debt their Grandchildren may be paying off......TLC?

What a joke...the lot of them!

[Malva Zebrina]

7. Powell's use of platitudes is what got him where he is

most people, whose reading habits go only so far as reading a Hallmark greeting card on birthdays, bought it and believed that Powell was the one, the only one, some said, in the Bush administration who had a level thinking head. He is just another platitude spouting Bush water boy with a reputation behind him and that reputation obviously was a trumped up PR manufactured Colin Powell too

[seabeyond]

8. put on the local news

that a bunch of men got women naked to be sluts and then smear menstural blood on a mans face along with the comment dad and i talk pussy, and i see it could piss off every woman in the u.s.