My apartment is a secret CIA prison

It's true. The CIA has been holding some dude here for the past four months. And the screams at night and the smell of burning human hair is starting to really get to me.

I'm sorry, but is there some reason that Bush couldn't say this back in, oh, November, when this story actually broke in the press? Oh wait, he needed 10 months to clear everyone out of those secret prisons and get them to Guantanamo. And clear up that damn evidence of torture. No, I don't have any proof for that last statement. But let's see here. If your administration has gone from disregarding the Geneva Convention to calling it "vague", your Secretary of Defense created an environment that allowed the Abu Gharib stuff to not only happen, but for many, many pictures to be taken, and your term for your interrogation techniques is "alternative", I'm thinking you are to torture what Barry Bonds' overripe cantaloupe of a head is to steroids.

I am not under some sort of strange delusion where I think we're keeping fluffy bunny rabbits in these places. Many of these are seriously disturbed people whose outlet for their problems seems to be focused rage at the West (neither do I believe that everyone at Guantanamo is a terrorist, but that's not really germane to the issue). They need to be held accountable for their actions (or intended actions). But we need to be better than these people. We need to make the system transparent enough that whoever's in charge can't just lock people away indefinitely. These people need to see and hear the evidence against them, and have a chance to respond. I'm not saying take 12 morons off the street, but get an objective panel that knows what's going on and can make an intelligent, informed and well-reasoned opinion. We don't get to torture them. They've decided that our lives mean less than theirs. We cannot feel the same way. Check that. We can feel that way all we want, but we cannot act that way. We need to be better than them, because we've got the bigger guns, tanks, planes and nuclear bombs, and if we're not better than them, then everyone on this planet is in a lot of trouble.