"Oh, now, don’t start gettin’ down on the Guantanamo guards for a little water balloon play. You don’t get gooder, cleaner fun than water balloons."

Via Talkleft the Pentagon has admitted, “Well, hmmm, yeah, we disrespected the Quran.”

Pentagon Confirms Soldier Mistreated Prisoner’s Quran
Other Incidents Also Confirmed

PENTAGON — The Pentagon has confirmed for the first time that a U.S. soldier deliberately kicked a Guantanamo Bay prisoner’s Quran in violation of the military’s rules for handling the Muslim holy book.

In other confirmed incidents, water balloons thrown by prison guards caused an unspecified number of Qurans to get wet; a guard’s urine came through an air vent and splashed on a detainee and his Quran; and a two-word obscenity was written in English on the inside cover of a Quran.

The findings are among the results of an investigation last month by Brig. Gen. Jay Hood, the commander of the detention center in southeastern Cuba. The probe was triggered by a Newsweek magazine report — later retracted — that a U.S. soldier had flushed one Guantanamo detainee’s Quran down a toilet.

Source: Denverchannel

New questions abound, don’t they? Water balloons thrown by guards. Someone no doubt will say, “Child play!” The picture they’re perhaps shooting for is har-har water balloons tossed, “Got cha!”

I doubt it ran like that.

And the urine of the guard just happening to “splash” a detainee and his Quran. The guard didn’t do it. His urine somehow did. The urine escaped his bladder and undid his fly, snuck out, and oops there it went all over the detainee and the Quran, well we never thought it would cause such a fuss since it was purely an accident on the part of the urine so we thought there was no point mentioning it.

I’m wondering now what was in the water balloons.

The Minneapolis Star Tribune adds that the urine came through an air vent and splashed on a detainee and his Quran. The guard is written to have gone outside to urinate and the wind blew his urine through the air vent into the cell block.

Are you buying this? No? Well, I have a little Oxytocin, trust hormone spray I’d like you to take a whiff of.

There are about 540 detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Some have been there more than three years without being charged with a crime. Most were captured on the battlefields of Afghanistan in 2001 and 2002 and were sent to Guantanamo Bay in hope of extracting useful intelligence about the al-Qaida terrorist network.

Both President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld have denounced an Amnesty International report that called the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay “the gulag of our time.”

The president told reporters at a press conference on Tuesday that the report by the human-rights group was “absurd.”

On Wednesday, Rumsfeld called the characterization “reprehensible” and said the U.S. military had taken care to ensure that detainees were free to practice their religion. However, he also acknowledged that some detainees had been mistreated, even “grievously” at times.

But why should they want to go home? Partying with the guards, frolicking about the cell blocks. “Let’s do a surprise water balloon raid!” say the guards. “Oh,” laugh the detainees, “you got us good that time!”

Three years charged without a crime, sitting in Guantanamo Bay.

Not an Otis Redding song.

So, when IS the government going to start regularly dosing us with Oxytocin so we’ll get happy and buy the lies and stop pestering them. I know if I was Bush, I’d be yelling at someone, “Why haven’t you figured out how to dose the water yet? I want them all singing, Happy talk!“.