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catsidheThe US Military has investigated itself, and found itself entirely innocent. They continued to say that their independent investigations indicated that they also deserve a pay rise, and a pony, each.
Others have claimed that there is, in fact, a rich tradition of abusive behaviour at Guantánamo, ranging from verbal abuse through to psychological torment and outright physical assault and torture, but these concerns were dismissed as the paranoid carpings of a quasi-treasonous fifth column, who have axes to grind and want the terrorists to win. On the contrary, say the entirely disinterested Pentagon investigation team, being shown posters of Saddam Hussein about to be hanged with messages implying "do what we say or you're next' are merely provision of intellectual exercise (needed since the only other reading material available is the Qur'an), and the digital-anal rape is just a normal medical procedure. What, your doctor doesn't put a bag over your head so you don't know when, or if, he's going to stick his fingers up your arse?
RatBastard Howard, on the other hand, has claimed that he could repatriate Hicks, he just won't, on the principle that if the Yanks arrested him ('arrested', 'were handed by mercenaries in return for money', it's a fine distinction), he must be guilty of something, and the fact that he hadn't broken a single Australian law must not be allowed to get in the way of that. He did qualify this by saying that Hick's case could have been handled better by the aforementioned Yanks, and that this was his strongly held opinion all the way back to the most recent dismal poll results.
Others have claimed that there is, in fact, a rich tradition of abusive behaviour at Guantánamo, ranging from verbal abuse through to psychological torment and outright physical assault and torture, but these concerns were dismissed as the paranoid carpings of a quasi-treasonous fifth column, who have axes to grind and want the terrorists to win. On the contrary, say the entirely disinterested Pentagon investigation team, being shown posters of Saddam Hussein about to be hanged with messages implying "do what we say or you're next' are merely provision of intellectual exercise (needed since the only other reading material available is the Qur'an), and the digital-anal rape is just a normal medical procedure. What, your doctor doesn't put a bag over your head so you don't know when, or if, he's going to stick his fingers up your arse?
RatBastard Howard, on the other hand, has claimed that he could repatriate Hicks, he just won't, on the principle that if the Yanks arrested him ('arrested', 'were handed by mercenaries in return for money', it's a fine distinction), he must be guilty of something, and the fact that he hadn't broken a single Australian law must not be allowed to get in the way of that. He did qualify this by saying that Hick's case could have been handled better by the aforementioned Yanks, and that this was his strongly held opinion all the way back to the most recent dismal poll results.
