Cara Lynn Shultz

@caralynnshultz in a @people Article has taken the easy and inaccurate road on Gitmo, the finest military detention facility on earth. "No one does [detention operations] better than the US," said an ICRC physician to me at the US military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in February of 2002. At that time I was the ranking US Army Medical Department officer with the Joint Detainee Operations Group (JDOG) with Joint Task Force 160. We treated every detainee with dignity and respect. They all received FREE Qurans, prayer rugs/beads, directions to Mecca, services of US military Muslim chaplains, halal and Muslim holy day meals including baklava and lamb, world class health, vision and dental care, correspondence, legal support, library, recreation, books, DVDs, sports and more. NONE of the just under 800 unlawful combatant Islamists who wanted to kill us who were/are held there were beheaded, executed, blown up, hacked to death, dragged naked and lifeless through the streets, drowned or burned alive. All things our enemies have done to us and/or our allies. There is no moral comparison between Gitmo and how our enemies treat their captives. Yet Ms. Shultz, like many "journalists" before her, can't seem to get it right. Gitmo was, is will never be a "gulag" where "torture" is performed. Only a handful of detainees were waterboarded or had other EIT performed on them, in order to obtain valuable information that saved many lives. EIT were approved and legal, and did not meet the internationally accepted definition of torture at the time. The photo of detainees kneeling in a gravel enclosure with sensory depravation on was not explained or footnoted (as usual), giving the impression that that was how detainees were treated 24/7/365. And nothing could be further from the truth. That was a holding area after arrival from Afghanistan, until they could be in-processed, one at a time. Detainees spent from five to forty-five minutes in the enclosure, tended constantly by guards and medics. They were never put in that enclosure in those conditions again. If you want a REAL Gitmo story, read "Saving Grace at Guantanamo Bay: A Post 9/11 Memoir of Duty, Conscience and Survival." amazon.com/Saving-Grace-G…

@caralynnshultz in a @people Article has taken the easy and inaccurate road on Gitmo, the finest military detention facility on earth. "No one does [detention operations] better than the US," said an ICRC physician to me at the US military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in February of 2002. At that time I was the ranking US Army Medical Department officer with the Joint Detainee Operations Group (JDOG) with Joint Task Force 160. We treated every detainee with dignity and respect. They all received FREE Qurans, prayer rugs/beads, directions to Mecca, services of US military Muslim chaplains, halal and Muslim holy day meals including baklava and lamb, world class health, vision and dental care, correspondence, legal support, library, recreation, books, DVDs, sports and more. NONE of the just under 800 unlawful combatant Islamists who wanted to kill us who were/are held there were beheaded, executed, blown up, hacked to death, dragged naked and lifeless through the streets, drowned or burned alive. All things our enemies have done to us and/or our allies. There is no moral comparison between Gitmo and how our enemies treat their captives. Yet Ms. Shultz, like many "journalists" before her, can't seem to get it right. Gitmo was, is will never be a "gulag" where "torture" is performed. Only a handful of detainees were waterboarded or had other EIT performed on them, in order to obtain valuable information that saved many lives. EIT were approved and legal, and did not meet the internationally accepted definition of torture at the time. The photo of detainees kneeling in a gravel enclosure with sensory depravation on was not explained or footnoted (as usual), giving the impression that that was how detainees were treated 24/7/365. And nothing could be further from the truth. That was a holding area after arrival from Afghanistan, until they could be in-processed, one at a time. Detainees spent from five to forty-five minutes in the enclosure, tended constantly by guards and medics. They were never put in that enclosure in those conditions again. If you want a REAL Gitmo story, read "Saving Grace at Guantanamo Bay: A Post 9/11 Memoir of Duty, Conscience and Survival." amazon.com/Saving-Grace-G…

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