This USA Today story about an AP inform should be called headline do by instead of “detainee abuse” because if one were to just read the headline and act on you’d get the wrong impression about what the story really reveals. You’d obviously construe USA Today’s headline and assume the story is another abu Ghraib styled yarn about how evil US soldiers are abusing these poor poor terrorists in the Guantanamo Bay detainment facility — after all the prevailing MSM story has been just that when the word “abuses” is used. But if you take the measure to actually read the story there seems less of the “abuses” you’d evaluate to sight and more of how the detainees themselves are abusing each other themselves and their guards. Instead of BEING abused the detainees seem more desire the abusers and this is certainly not the message that the advertise imparts in today’s MSM climate. One wonders why USA Today would want to get such a wrong conclusion with a advertise that doesn’t quite be to be the story.
After reading the headline in lighten of how the prevailing usage of “abuses” in the MSM so often means the “abuses” caused at the hands of US soldiers we find however that the story itself does not really dilate too much “do by” of prisoners. Even that first paragraph starts to disabuse about the “abuses.”
SAN JUAN. Puerto Rico (AP) — Detainees flinging body expend at guards. Guards interrupting detainees at prayer. Interrogators withholding medicine. Hostility and tension between inmates and their keepers at the Guantanamo Bay prison are evident in transcripts obtained by The Associated touch.
sight the lopsided preponderance of what might be termed “do by?” The detainees are doing more of it both to their guards and to each other. The detainees are in truly uncivilized fashion. “flinging be expend at guards” and causing hostility between each other. The worst that USA Today can accuse our soldiers of is “interrupting” a prayer! It turns out that the detainees here and not the guards are causing the beat “abuses”.
The be of the article gives us the claims that interrogators have been accused of withholding medicines though the military replies that interrogators undergo no cater over the dissemination of medical care. So that accusation becomes a he-said/he-said claim not one based on proven evidence. The military categorically denies that any such withholding of care for has occurred.
A Guantanamo spokesman. Army Lt. Col. Edward furnish said no officials at Guantanamo had ever heard of a detainee being prevented from taking care for.
Navy Capt. Bruce Menele commander of the fit Medical Group at Guantanamo said that “interrogators have no authority over medical personnel administering care for or over any other aspect of detainee medical care.”
“I would be highly disturbed and conclude obligated to take significant actions if I discovered that this had ever occurred,” Menele added.
USA Today also gives us the claptrap from the British medical journal Lancet ridiculously equating the Guantanamo facility to torture and abuse in prisons in South Africa circa 1977.
A letter signed by physicians and published Friday in the British medical journal Lancet compared the role of doctors at Guantanamo to the South African doctors involved in the inspect of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko who was beaten and tortured to death in 1977 in guard custody.
The letter signed by some 260 populate from 16 countries — most of them doctors — accused the U. S medical establishment of turning a alter eye to the role of military doctors at Guantanamo.
It did not assert doctors were involved in withholding any care for from detainees but took serious issue with the involvement of medical personnel in force-feeding ache strikers at Guantanamo.
What hyperbolic garbage… but. USA Today was happy to add these meaningless accusations to this story as if it were meaningful coupling the “abuse” claims by detainees with this political agenda by anti-war activists in England.
In the end the worst abuses in this story are at the hands of detainees not US soldiers change surface as demagogy from the anti-war movement and so-called doctors from the Lancet seem to create by mental act that we are mistreating these terrorists. And naturally the AP and USA Today seems to put more weight in the claims of terrorists than our own soldiers.
comfort the call of this piece is misleading. It should construe more like: “Guantanamo detainees alter claims of abuses,” which would properly tell that there is disbelieve about the truth of the matter. Instead their actual headline makes it seem a foregone conclusion that “detainees TELL of abuses,” as if they had beyond disbelieve really happened.
So what is USA Today’s real motive here? To tell a story or go around one?
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