20th Hijacker 'Tortured' with Aguilera Music

It’s late and I’m in a bad mood, so I’m having a really difficult time getting the compassionate conservative in me to kick in. I found the following and was completely underwhelmed.

Time report fuels Guantanamo criticism

The U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay drew fresh criticism Sunday following a Time magazine report on a logbook tracing the treatment of a detainee who officials believe was intended to take part in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Here we go again. Time must be providing Newsweek some cover, as well as stumping for Howard Dean and giving the far lefties more non-news to be horrified by since 911 and the Iraq beheadings don’t seem to do it.

Time's report on the treatment received by Mohammed al-Qahtani prompted a quick defense from the Pentagon along with outrage from several members of Congress.

Oh don’t defend it. Admit it. The worst thing that I can tell happened to the guy was that he urinated on himself. My 2 year old does it on a daily basis.

...the Time article reports that daily interviews began at 4 a.m. and sometimes continued until midnight.

How awful! Wait until they hear that we are doing that to our own soldiers in boot camp! By the way, did I mention that he is “a detainee who officials believe was intended to take part in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.”

…interrogators began their sessions with al-Qahtani at midnight and awakened him with dripping water or Christina Aguilera music if he dozed off, the magazine article reported.

Well, if Christina Aguilera's music doesn’t make him break, nothing will. Just let him go. Oh yea, as a point of interest, he is “a detainee who officials believe was intended to take part in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.”

The magazine said the techniques approved by Rumsfeld included "standing for prolonged periods, isolation for as long as 30 days, removal of clothing, forced shaving of facial hair" and hanging "pictures of scantily clad women around his neck."

Sounds like the best 30 days of his life. In case you haven’t noticed, I’m having a really tough time reconciling all of this with the fact that he is “a detainee who officials believe was intended to take part in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.”

Here is the obligatory Abu Ghraib reference.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein…"I don't know why we didn't learn from Bagram," she added, referring to a U.S. base in Afghanistan. "I don't know why we didn't learn from Abu Ghraib [prison in Iraq], but here we are in Guantanamo with many of the same things surfacing."

It seems Ms. Feinstein is more concerned about “a detainee who officials believe was intended to take part in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks” than she is our own citizens.

Please forgive me for being so heartless. I will be back to my old soft pushover self tomorrow. I hope that you are all able to sleep tonight knowing that “a detainee who officials believe was intended to take part in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks” has been treated so harshly. Us evil Americans are at it again. Let’s close down Gitmo so that we can justify everything the lunatic left, the anti-American media and their radical Islamist allies spew forth. Goodnight.