Letter: What were we hiding at Guantanamo?

Friday, Nov. 23, 2007 | 7:14 a.m.

Why George Bush and Co. would have a policy in 2003 of not letting detainees at Guantanamo Bay see monitors from the International Committee of the Red Cross, as recently disclosed by The New York Times, is outrageous, to say the least.

What the hell have they to hide? Waterboarding? Testicles crunched by electric wires hooked to a battery? Traces of manacles around a child terrorist's neck? It boggles the mind.

As an American I find the stuff in the pictures from Iraq atrocious.

Around the world Americans used to be judged by the good they did, the fairness with which others were treated as prisoners of war, and our stand on human rights.

Thank you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, for screwing that up.

Jim Hyder, Las Vegas

The writer is an anti-war activist.

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