Monday, February 13, 2006

Screw the UN

The UN wants the United State to close Gitmo.

A United Nations' inquiry will call for the immediate closure of the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the prosecution of officers and politicians "up to the highest level" who are accused of torturing detainees.
The U.N. Human Rights Commission report, to be published this week, concludes that Washington should put the 520 detainees on trial or release them.
The report calls for the United States to halt all "practices amounting to torture," including the force-feeding of inmates who go on hunger strike.
U.S. officials, informed yesterday of the report's contents, rejected the findings as "a hatchet job."
"This shows precisely what is wrong with the United Nations today," said a senior official, who spoke on the condition that he not be identified. "These people are supposed to be undertaking a serious investigation of the facts relating to Guantanamo.
"Instead, they deliver a report with a bunch of old allegations from lawyers representing released detainees that are so generalized that you cannot even tell what they are talking about. When the U.N. produces an unprofessional hatchet job like this, it discredits the whole organization."


I say fine. Let's close Gitmo - just as soon as the UN closes North Korea, Iran and Syria.

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