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Yo soy un hombre sincero Bush said the prisoners at Guantánamo were treated fairly and rejected as absurd the description of it as a gulag. "I will tell you that we treat these prisoners in accordance with international standards," he said. De donde crecen las palmas The date palm forest lining the Shatt al-Arab estuary in Iraq is the largest in the world. In 1975 the date palm belt - shown dark red - was thriving but by 2002, the pallid colour indicates dead vegetation. The UN estimates war, pests and salt have destroyed 14 million palms. Y antes de morirme quiero "War does not determine who is right--only who is left." - Bertrand Russell Echar mis versos del alma Last week, the Bush administration forced Newsweek to back off a story about the desecration of Korans at Guantánamo after it provoked demonstrations, riots and more than a dozen deaths in Afghanistan. Allegations include having a guard dog carry the Koran in its mouth, guards scrawling obscenities inside Korans, kicking Korans across the floor, urinating on the Koran, ridiculing the Koran, walking on the Koran, and tearing off the cover and throwing the Koran into trash or dirty water. Mi verso es de un verde claro George W. Bush, upon taking office in 2001, immediately began a systematic withdrawal from major international treaties to which the US was a signatory. As part of that policy, on May 7th, 2002 Donald Rumsfeld informed the Secretary General of the UN that the US was officially withdrawing from the International Criminal Court (ICC). Y de un carmin encendido The military brushed off the Red Cross's complaints when they were made, just as it did at Abu Ghraib. Yesterday, Lawrence Di Rita, a spokesman for Mr. Rumsfeld, said the Red Cross had "their point of view," which was not shared by the Bush administration. The Red Cross's point of view, however, is reflected in the Geneva Conventions and in American law. Mi verso es un ciervo herido During confirmation hearings, the Senate Judiciary Committee should press Mr. Gonzales about why he signed off on two legal opinions that justified torture and claimed that Mr. Bush could suspend the Geneva Conventions whenever he liked. Que busca en el monte amparo The White House, the Pentagon and the Justice Department clearly have no intention of addressing the abuse. Indeed, Mr. Bush has nominated one of the architects of the administration's prisoner policy, the White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, to be attorney general. The general who set up the system at Guantánamo is now in charge of prisons in Iraq. Con los pobres de la tierra "These are the things that make Iraqis pick up a weapon and want to kill American soldiers," said Ribahi, 32, sipping sweet tea at a Baghdad coffeehouse Friday evening. Quiero yo mi suerte echar Under its agreement with the United States government, the Red Cross is allowed access to the detention facilities at Guantánamo and may interview each detainee. In exchange, the Red Cross agrees that it will not make public any criticisms but will relay them only to the government. El arroyo de la sierra In one case, a guard's urine splashed through an air vent on to a prisoner and his Quran. Me complace mas que el mar "We certainly don't think it's torture," General Myers said. "Let's not forget the kind of people we have down there," he said. "These are the people that don't know any moral values."

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