And torture is backed up by countless other websites, including Wikipedia, CNN, etc. So the point is that both theories have their sources and evidence and are both possible, let's leave it at that, k?

And second of all, Irene Kahn, the extremely short Secretary-General of Amnesty International was the one who first made the Gulag quote. Let's take it in context, shall we? "Guantánamo has become the gulag of our times, entrenching the notion that people can be detained without any recourse to the law. If Guantánamo evokes images of Soviet repression, "ghost detainees" – or the incommunicado detention of unregistered detainees - bring back the practice of "disappearances" so popular with Latin American dictators in the past. According to U.S. official sources there could be over 100 ghost detainees held by the U.S"
As you can see, she never even mentions the mistreatment of prisoners, but simply the fact that people are imprisoned without the right to a trial. Bam. Insant Gulag.

"The offenders of International Law are not in the U.S. they live in the Gettos of Iraq and Iran."
So you deny the existance of US secret prisons and the fact that about 10 of the 700+ held at Guantanamo have actually been charged with a crime? Because those are offenses under International Law. And if we don't stick to International Law as one of the countries primarily responsible for it's existance, why should anybody else? What's to stop another Holocaust or another Rwandan Genocide or another Darfur? If the United States, the land of the free and the home of the brave, doesn't follow it's own laws, why does Iran need to comply with International Law?

Rudy, I love to see how you attack my sources when your favorite source is a fictional TV show. CNN, NYTimes, Wikipedia, The Daily Show, Al Jazeera (yes Anti-American, but still an established news source), etc. are all less reliable than fiction. Wow man. That is just remarkably stupid. I've heard of Bible inerrancy, but 24 inerrancy is something new. I really won't bother replying to your post because it is such a load of crap I honestly don't want to waste my time reading it. I know reality has a well-known liberal bias that's worse than the New York Times, but next time try to stick to reality please? I love you man, <3

Oh and a happy early New Year to all!