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And, yes, I DO take it personally: Mpls Star Tribune hits hard on Guantanamo
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Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Mpls Star Tribune hits hard on Guantanamo

i love it a lot when a major metro daily pulls itself together into full-tilt indignation with brilliantly clear rhetoric... i love it even better when they're right on the money...
The issue of whether Durbin's rhetoric crossed a line is small potatoes compared with the undeniable truth that American treatment of its prisoners has crossed many, many lines -- of morality, of international law, of practical benefit.

But instead of discussing what goes on at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and other prison camps, the right would prefer to get into a senseless argument about whether "we" are better than the Nazis or Saddam Hussein or the Soviets or Pol Pot or whomever a critic of Guantanamo might raise as a comparison. It's a tactic the group running Washington now has used again and again: They're quite deliberately changing the subject -- from Guantanamo to words spoken on the Senate floor.

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