Arguments are once again heating up over detainee treatment at Guantanamo
Bay. This time it is not from some U.N. group or international human rights
organization:

Via

UPI:

Blair: Guantanamo ‘must be stopped’

LONDON, Nov. 22 (UPI) — The U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,
is an “anomaly that has to be dealt with,” British Prime Minister Tony Blair
said Tuesday.

The Geneva Conventions must be applied to detainees at the camp, Blair
stressed. He did not have an up-to-date report that indicated whether that
was the case at present, he added.

Giving evidence to senior British parliamentarians, the prime minister
said that detention at the camp “has got to be brought to an end.”

“This is an anomaly that has to be dealt with,” he said.

The United States is under increasing criticism over its treatment of
detainees at the camp, where suspected al-Qaida militants were held
following the Sept. 11 attacks.

Last week the Bush administration was condemned by the United Nations
after it refused to grant full access to the camp to inspectors from the
U.N. Commission on Human Rights.

“The writ of international human rights does not stop at the gates of
Guantanamo Bay,” the UN’s special rapporteur on the right to health, Paul
Hunt, told reporters at an Amnesty International conference in London
Friday.

None other that our closest ally is now calling for changes at Guantanamo.
This has to really worry the Bush administration when our partners in the Iraq
war are now concerned over the treatment of prisoners.

The White House has not issued any statements yet in regards to this, but I
do expect some reporter to ask about it during today’s press gaggle. I guess it
is time for Bush to launch an investigation into Gitmo so Scott McClellan has an
answer – “We will now comment on an ongoing investigation”.