It will be interesting to see how the administration tries to downplay this
report:

United Nations inquiry has called for the immediate closure of America’s
Guantanamo Bay detention centre and the prosecution of officers and
politicians “up to the highest level” who are accused of torturing
detainees.

The UN Human Rights Commission report, due to be published this week,
concludes that Washington should put the 520 detainees on trial or release
them.

The report wants the Bush administration to ensure that all allegations
of torture are investigated by US criminal courts, and that “all
perpetrators up to the highest level of military and political command are
brought to justice”.

It does not specify who it means by “political command” but logically
this would include President George W Bush.

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The timing of this report is really the interesting part here. Now that we
are facing problems with Iran and even referring them to the security council,
we have to make a choice of how to view the UN. If we are willing to tell Iran
that they must conform to the power of the Security Council then the United
States must also be willing to conform to the power of the U.N. and take this
report seriously. That of course will most likely not be the case. Instead, the
US will go by its usual “practice what I preach, not what I do” mentality and
prove to the world we don’t answer to no one. I am just wondering how long
before we start getting sanctions against us.