The Horror

If you have any doubt left in you as to whether George W. Bush & friends are guilty of war crimes for the tortures conducted at Guantanamo, you might want to take a few moments to read some testimonials given by people who were there. In 2005, the Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas at UC Davis launched the Guantanamo Testimonials Project, "a long term research project to assess the effects of the U.S. war on terror on human rights in the Americas."

Testimonials have been collected not only from prisoners, but also from FBI agents, military guards, interrogators, foreign intelligence officials, the Red Cross, even a chaplain. Some testimonials have been given in violation of non-disclosure agreements and with possible consequences to those who told their stories.

The CSHRA states: "We take no position as to whether the Guantánamo prisoners are guilty or innocent. Yet we recognize that these individuals are, in either case, entitled to a set of fundamental rights (a) as individuals held during an armed conflict, (b) as prisoners in general, and (c) as ordinary human beings."

It's time for the people who ordered the torture of the prisoners at Guantanamo to be prosecuted for their crimes, the details of which you can read for yourself, if you can stomach it.