Cuba Tells US to Stop Guantanamo Bay Prisoners 'Abuse'

[NNN0LHI]

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4022528

Cuba today accused the United States of lying to the world about its treatment of prisoners at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, saying torture was a daily occurrence at the prison camp for terror suspects.

The Cuban foreign ministry said it sent a letter to the US government urging authorities to immediately stop the alleged abuse at the camp, which sits on Cuba’s easternmost tip.

“The Foreign Ministry joins the protests and demands of the international community for the US government to immediately halt these flagrant violations of prisoners’ rights,” the statement said.

US officials say they are investigating allegations of prisoner abuse at Guantanamo Bay described in recently released FBI documents.

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[Mika]

1. Or what?

:shrug:

[bpilgrim]

2. or we will be isolated in world opinion

probably brought before ICC for starters...

peace

[NNN0LHI]

3. Or Cuba will keep reminding the world that the US is a nation of torturers

Which I don't find amusing at all when I can no longer argue that it is all BS with a straight face. Thats or what. Ain't that enough?

Don

[Mika]

7. Yes Don, it is enough

My question was semi in jest. The bushco Nazis will make their moves no matter the will of the rest of world, Cuba included.


It is a shameful state we're in.

[NNN0LHI]

10. Its damn embarrassing to me Mika

I would like to be just all over that dictator down there for even suggesting such a thing about the country I grew up in. I guess my age of innocence is gone in these matters? Sure wish that wasn't the case. This country has the capability of doing great things. America was only limited by our citizens imagination. If someone could think of it, we were capable of doing it. We could have done anything, good or bad. Anything. And the majority of our citizens have chosen the path of darkness. I don't know what else to say. I am so sorry for my country.

Don

[Mika]

20. Don, bombing Cuba would be taking the path of darkness

The Cuban people have good imagination and the capability of doing great things. The people run the show there, not Mr Castro. They do great things with a paucity of resources, and unlike our country, their revolutionary hero & figurehead head of state, Mr Castro, is respected worldwide by the downtrodden and poor of this planet seeking some form of parity and hope. To those who know Cuba & its people it is a shining light.

[jayctravis]

19. I guess they thought Cuba was a good location?

They certainly don't want us to know what they're doing.

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[NNN0LHI]

5. When its the truth thats about all there is to say. Kinda pathetic n/t

[guajira]

6. I Care!

The security of our country depends on what the world thinks of us and our foreign policies!

It's ironic that we accuse Cuba of civil rights violations, yet we have a prison camp in Cuba. We even put elderly nuns in jail in the US for protesting!

[0007]

14. American death squads had 3 American Nuns shot

in El Salvador in 1980. Where was John Negroponte during that time?

[pinerow]

9. Seems to me you are on the wrong forum....

freeperville is that-a-away----->>>>>

:wtf:

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[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

13. You really mean that, don't you? It's not sarcasm, is it?

Is it?

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[Rose Siding]

17. T Jefferson

"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations--entangling alliances with none, I deem the essential principles of our government, and consequently those which ought to shape its administration." --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural Address, 1801. ME 3:321

There's an opinion worth considering.

[amber dog democrat]

18. I care

Especially when Cuba is right. We have become the United States of Mordor, in my opinion. I am wondering if Bush is closer to being an orc or a troll.

So when does the lease on Gitmo expire anyway?

[sweetheart]

8. Its cuba's fault

The're letting it happen on their own soil... rotters...!

[guajira]

12. Cuba Doesn't have a choice

snippet:
In 1934, faced with economic hardships, the US began a so-called “Good Neighbour” policy and signed a Treaty of Reciprocity, which repealed the Platt Amendment and the 1903 Permanent Treaty, but maintained all stipulations concerning Guantanamo. However, as the treaty was being signed in Washington, over 20 US warships paid “friendly” visits to various points along the Cuban coast.

http://www.cuba-solidarity.org.uk/cubasi_article.asp?ArticleID=27

[sweetheart]

15. still no excuse... all american treaties are lies

americans and the government are good for lies... so what excuse is
there except that one has sold out to criminals.

[sweetheart]

16. sorry i'm a devil tonight .. the wind is howling and therz no excuses.

God bless the people of cuba.

[nookiemonster]

11. Blah...blah...blah....

"I can't hear you. Are you talking to me?" shrieked the smirking chimp.

[Judi Lynn]

22. I love the spirit they showed when they painted a cartoon eagle

on the street in front of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana, with a big B on it for "Blockade," (bloqueo) over which Cuban cars drive daily. Very droll sense of humor.

[realFedUp]

24. Senator Dodd should have reminded Ms. Rice of this...

While denouncing Fidel's human rights practices in Cuba,
next door the U.S. has tortured unrepresented
citizens of other countries.

Kind of irony doncha think, not lost on Castro.

[Mika]

25. Yep. Denouncing universal health care, education & labor unions

Those are the human rights practices in Cuba.



www.freethefive.org

[Judi Lynn]

26. Bush and his cohorts depend on Americans' indifference and ignorance

concerning Cuba. What is it they fear so much to deny Americans the right to travel to Cuba and see for themselves what's going on there?

It SHOULD make people wonder, you'd think!

[fob]

27. With this announcement, Irony is dead. It will be buried

between US credibility and integrity. And the hole for democracy just reached 5 and 1/2 feet deep, it is not expected to make it through the next 4 years.

[V Lee]

28. So this is what we've come to? A dictatorship is telling us to ...

... clean up our act?

I'm so proud to be an American in Bushland!!! (cue dripping sarcasm, and nausea)