From the 'Better Late Than Never' File

AP reports:

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration, called to account by Congress after the Supreme Court blocked military tribunals, said Tuesday all detainees at Guantanamo Bay and in U.S. military custody everywhere are entitled to protections under the Geneva Conventions.

Prisoners have been held there since January, 2002. More than 4 years later, the Bush Administration agrees to minimum humane treatment.

That is the lack of moral leadership that I referred to in the preceding post.

Fortunately, checks and balances eventually (at a snail's pace perhaps) worked. Perhaps the horrible stories that from time to time leak out of GITMO will now cease.

Perhaps now those who are culpable will be brought to trial and the perpetual detention policy of the Bush Administration will end.

For 4 years we Americans have sacrificed our morality on the altar of national defense at GITMO. It is time for that embarrassment to end.

GP