Blair: Guantanamo 'must be stopped'

[sabra]

http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20051122-083331-2141r

Blair: Guantanamo 'must be stopped'

LONDON, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- The U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is an "anomaly that has to be dealt with," British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday.

The Geneva Conventions must be applied to detainees at the camp, Blair stressed. He did not have an up-to-date report that indicated whether that was the case at present, he added.

Giving evidence to senior British parliamentarians, the prime minister said that detention at the camp "has got to be brought to an end."

"This is an anomaly that has to be dealt with," he said.

[kenny blankenship]

1. Is he recommending U.N. sanctions?

Gitmo is nothing compared to our reign of terror in Iraq/Afghanistan. Is he advocating humanitarian invasion to stop our rape rooms?

[willing dwarf]

2. Should read: Blair uses carnie's tricks to distract public

from all the other reports on torture by his US counterparts, plus yesterday's reports of British overseeing toture in Basra

Like the shell game- "it's over there, no over there, watch now, watch carefully" He believes we'll be blinded by his sleight of hand, but we can see he's just in lock step with Bushco.

[MetaTrope]

3. Just like Bush calling for environmental programs which Repubs won't fund

The old good cop-bad cop ploy...

[Supersedeas]

15. Yea, let's talk about Gitmo for the moment...a very brief moment

[hatrack]

4. I'm sorry - was that the sound of cockroach forelegs rubbing together?

My mistake - it was Tony Blair!

Silly me! What I heard was such an insignificant little raspy squeak that I figured it was time to set out more Combat.

[UpInArms]

10. great post, hatrack!

[bpilgrim]

5. Cheney & Rummy are gonna be PISSED!

peace

[goclark]

13. Stop it, my tea is on my keyboard ROTFL

[ReadTomPaine]

6. Having second thoughts after being on your knees for so long, Tony?

...and Gitmo is just one of a series of prisons, not an 'anomaly', but you already know that, don't you poochie?

[indepat]

7. Heresy from the mouth of the poodle? Lordy me

[Bridget Burke]

11. Any minute now, he'll start nipping at ankles....

Bush would be scared if not for the choke chain.

[fshrink]

8. It "has to be dealt with" only because it

failed to remain hidden. Rest assured that the other "anomalies", in the UK included, are perfectly OK.

[Canuckistanian]

9. A little late to this party, aren't you Tony?

Why didn't you do anything about it when it mattered?
:grr:

[CJCRANE]

12. Not an "anomaly", it's SOP for the neocons nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. Less than a week after refusing British citizenship to a detainee

who normally should get it automatically (his mother was British):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051119/wl_asia_afp/australiabritainus

And he still refuses to do anything about asking for the 9 British residents (but who don't hold British citizenship) who are still held there to be released:

http://www.cageprisoners.com/download.php?download=266

If he thought it was such a bad place, he'd have lobbied for them to be released before. I think he's probably just saying this to get Cherie to stop shouting at him. Or to get his oats again :evilgrin: