Through The Looking Glass

President Pinhead chastised most other countries Friday for "a sad and curious pattern" of doing little to speak out against human rights and political abuses in Cuba. "Unfortunately, the list of countries supporting the Cuban people is far too short and the democracies absent from that list are far too notable."
On Wednesday, the Democratic-led Senate voted fifty-one to forty-five in favor of a bill calling for the Central Intelligence Agency to adopt the US Army Field Manual, which forbids waterboarding and other types of coercive interrogation methods. On Thursday Pinhead said he plans to veto legislation passed by the Senate to bar the CIA from using harsh interrogation methods including waterboarding.
Anybody see a trend emerging here? No? That may be because it's been a while since you read any Jonathan Swift or Lewis Carroll. How does this man keep his head from spinning off of his neck when he keeps talking out of both sides of his mouth like that? "The president does not favor torture. The president favors making sure we do all these programs within the law," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said, adding that "all the interrogations that have taken place in this country have been done in a legal way."
Evoking the struggles of pro-democracy protesters Miguel Sigler Amaya and his wife, Josefa Lopez Pena, Pinhead said, "For Miguel and Josefa, the horrors of life in Cuba are behind them, but millions of others are still trapped in the tropical gulag. Yet most of the world says nothing."
How's your geography? What island nation is the home of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp? If you guessed Cuba and not Australia, take a pair of electrodes and move ahead two squares. Of the roughly three hundred and fifty detainees still incarcerated there, U.S. officials said they intend to eventually put sixty to eighty on trial and free the rest. On February 9, 2008, it was reported that six of the detainees at the Guantanamo Bay facility would be prosecuted for conspiracy in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. That leaves a whole bunch of people in "a tropical gulag" that much of the rest of the world have closed. The Pinhead administration has declared that the Third Geneva Convention does not apply to al-Qaeda or Taliban fighters, since the Geneva convention only applies to uniformed soldiers of a recognized government. That would be the way that we keep things "legal".
Please understand, I feel that the treatment of pro-democracy protesters in Cuba may be apples to our al-Qaeda oranges, but they are all endowed with certain inalienable rights, because apples or oranges, they're still human beings. Try that logic on for size, Pinhead.