If April fools hadn't already passed this year I would have thought
this was an elaborate hoax.
On a scale of worst, how worst can worst get? Back in 2001, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld took a crack at solving this riddle, dubbing Guantanamo Bay "the least worst place" to store evil-doers. But now, with the torture scandal unfolding, the Navy has declared that Guantanamo Bay is not "the least worst place" at all.
I'm waiting to hear what the "worst" place to store 'evil-doers' would be ?
Times, however, change, and when a new commanding officer for the prison - Captain Les McCoy - took over near the end of 2003, he ordered a Photoshop job on the "least worst place" banner, removing the slogan all together.
"The removal was ordered because the commanding officer did not feel it accurately reflected his vision of the base," said Navy spokesman Lieutenant Mike Kafka.
OK - so let's get this straight - prisoners are routinely being tortured, flouting the Geneva conventions, of which the USA is a signatory... and WHAT are the armed forces doing about it? Pushing through a LOGO CHANGE!
(Yes, you're reading that correctly. A man named Kafka has been deployed to field questions about a prison where the criminals are only vaguely charged with crimes, can't speak to lawyers and likely will never get out.)
I had to read that twice too. Did the USA really put a man named Kafka in charge of communications from a quasi-legal penal colony?