Rumsfeld on Caribbean holidays

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Jan 22 11:41:22 PST 2002


A passage from a Reuters story on Rumsfeld's press conference this morning:


>'SUNNY GUANTANAMO BAY'
>
>Rumsfeld also said the climate in Cuba was warmer than in
>Afghanistan and so holding the detainees in open-air cells with
>roofs was not mistreatment while a more secure facility was being
>built.
>
>``Guantanamo Bay's climate is different than Afghanistan. To be in a
>eight-(feet)-by-eight cell in beautiful sunny Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,
>is not inhumane treatment,'' he said. He did not mention
>disease-carrying mosquitoes on the Caribbean island.



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