Gitmo Appalling
by Eric Margolis, Toronto Sun

Last week Duncan Hunter, chairman of the powerful U.S. House armed services committee, went on TV to rebut charges by Amnesty International that the Bush administration is running "the gulag of our time" at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

His ludicrous performance reminded me that my father, who dealt with many politicians when he was chairman of Elgin Watch Co., called congressmen "used car salesmen from Biloxi." Hunter is from California, but the shoe fits.

The San Diego Cicero waved some fruit and a chicken leg at viewers to illustrate Guantanamo's haute cuisine, declaring its inmates have "never eaten better ... they've never been treated better -- courtesy of the American taxpayer!"

Those lucky, lucky 540 Muslims at Gitmo.

One wonders if Hunter plans to spend his next vacation there. Apparently it's a great, all-inclusive resort, with programs like sleep deprivation, intense noise assault, cigarette burning, water torture, beatings, humiliation. Deluxe wire cages are even included in the package. And what food!


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