Calls for resignation are meaningless without any changes in policy

Guardian Unlimited Columnists Gary Younge: Calls for resignation are meaningless without any changes in policy:

"If the war on terror is a plan to preserve and promote the values of the civilised world against barbarism, then nobody told Mohammed al-Kahtani. Since Kahtani has been incarcerated in Guantnamo Bay, he has been stripped naked and straddled by a taunting female guard, made to wear knickers on his head and a bra, and told that his mother was a whore. He has been shaved, held on a leash and forced to bark like a dog, put in isolation for five months in a cell continuously flooded with artificial light, deprived of heat, treated to a fake kidnapping and pumped with large quantities of intravenous liquids without access to a toilet so that he urinated on himself.




'Just for the lack of a camera, it would sure look like Abu Ghraib,' a military investigator, Lieutenant General Randall Schmidt, told the army inspector general in 2005, referring to Guant�namo."