“War Crimes” At Guantanamo Bay

Great series of posts last night, guys. The Kinsley column equating our purportedly “illegal” treatment of detainees with Saddam’s war crimes is vintage Kinsley–clever but fundamentally stupid. This ties in with the Michelle Malkin column I linked to yesterday, which quoted several detainees describing their own treatment:
“[N]early all of the former detainees enthusiastically praised the conditions at Guantanamo and expressed little bitterness about losing a year of their lives in captivity, saying they were treated better there than in three days in squalid cells in Kabul. None complained of torture during questioning or coerced confessions.”
“The freed detainees said they were allowed to pray five times daily, exercise, and

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