"They're very well treated down there. They're living in the tropics. They're well fed. They've got everything they could possibly want."
--Dick Cheney talking about Guantanamo prisoners during CNN interview, Associated Press, 6-24-05.
TAKE THEM AT THEIR WORDS
A miscellany for our times by Bruce J. Miller, editor, TAKE THEM AT THEIR WORDS, Shocking, Amusing, and Baffling Quotations from the GOP and Their Friends, 1994-2004. Academy Chicago Publishers, ISBN 0-89733-521-x
Friday, June 24, 2005
Sunday, June 19, 2005
"This country is not systematically abusing prisoners. We have no policy to do so. And it's wrong to suggest that. And it puts our soldiers at risk who are in this battle because we sent them there...Some of them need to be executed."
---Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Reuters, "Guantanamo inmates can be held 'in perpetuity' -U.S ," 6-15-05.