The United Nations Commission on Human Rights has released a report that accuses the United States of "torturing" prisoners in the Guantanamo Bay holding facility. They are recommending that the US immediately close the facility.
This would all be meaningful if it didn't come from a council led by Cuba, Sudan and Zimbabwe. These countries are poster children for human rights violations. Murder, rape, genocide, terrorism...Their list of violations read like a list of man's inhumanities to man. Even now, the UN is requesting US military forces to try and stop the genocidal killing in Sudan's Darfur region.
Now, the UN, led by these paragons of virtue, wants to tell the world that prisoners who are "shackled, chained, hooded, kicked and stripped" are being tortured. Or that prisoners who are on hunger strikes and are force fed are being treated inhumanely. Perhaps these do gooders should be forced to spend some time in the prisons of their own homelands? Or perhaps, they should be subject to questioning by their own police or military? Of course, they probably wouldn't survive to write nonsense like their report.
Once again, the UN would rather take a pot shot at the US than seek justice. The prisoners still held at Guantanamo Bay are enemies of the US...enemies behind acts of terrorism around the world...but largely targeting Americans. As such, they're lucky to be held in an American facility where they're taken care of, given food, medical care and religious freedom. If we treated them the way they treat Americans they capture, they'd all have been beheaded after the first week. In the meantime, perhaps the UN should look to clean their own house before trying to clean ours.
