Go read "Five years of my life" by Murat Kurnaz

http://www.amazon.com/Five-Years-My-Life-Guantanamo/dp/0230603742

Graner is getting the light version of the Gitmo treatment.

After all, he's getting to see his family - he can talk to them. He's not being held incommunicado in Cuba.

but when you have two Olympic games, you can have them every 2 years. The winter olympics (the cooler, younger brother) moved away from the summer olympics in 1994.

@MikeVolpe - even if one were to concede that Gitmo prisoners are not prisoners of war, and that they are should not afforded the protections under the Geneva Conventions, this still does not give you permission to torture them.

To do that you must deny that they are human beings. Freedom from torture is a human right, not a prisoner of war right. It derives from the idea "that those rights derive from the inherent dignity of the human person."

Denying the humanity of other people shoudn't be too hard for the justice dept. Repeal the Emancipation proclamation, and Gitmo can stay in business.

Access to the Red Cross is a prisoner of war right. Hiding prisoners who are claimed not to be prisoners of war from the Red Cross is therefore just shady, not illegal.

What does the Iraqi government have to do in order to rescind the CPA directive that grants the mercenaries immunity?

Presumably their parliament would need to write and enact a suitable replacement law governing mercenaries in Iraq.

Why haven't they done so already?

So the first panel should have a woman in it.

"surge" aka something illegible.

Starting at the top left. Then it makes more sense.

I gotta agree - this is very cool, but definitely a bit on the obscure side for the mainstream.

Very nicely done.