They SHOULD be on the defensive, dammit

An official of Amnesty International said Friday that the term gulag in its annual report to describe the United States prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, was chosen deliberately, and she shrugged off harsh criticism of the report by the Bush administration.

The official, Kate Gilmore, the group's executive deputy secretary general, said the administration's response was "typical of a government on the defensive," and she drew parallels to the reactions of the former Soviet Union, Libya and Iran under Ayatollah Khomeini, when those governments were accused of human rights abuses.

when it has been clearly documented (among many other documented instances) that the president of the united states signed a memorandum authorizing the waiver of geneva for detainees (as bush did in february 2002), that general ricardo sanchez authored interrogation techniques based on that waiver which officialy set the stage for torture at abu ghraib, and that general sanchez, in a hearing before the senate armed services committee, denied writing those techniques thus committing perjury under oath, i would say the bush administration has every reason to be defensive...

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