Who we?

For Amnesty International to suggest that somehow the United States is a violator of human rights, I frankly just don't take them seriously," Dick Cheney said in an interview that aired Monday night on CNN's "Larry King Live."

"Guantanamo's been operated, I think, in a very sane and sound fashion by the U.S. military. ... I think these people have been well treated, treated humanely and decently," Cheney said. "Occasionally there are allegations of mistreatment.

"But if you trace those back, in nearly every case, it turns out to come from somebody who has been inside and been released ... to their home country and now are peddling lies about how they were treated."

(Amnesty International President) Schulz responded to Cheney's comments: "It doesn't matter whether he takes Amnesty International seriously.

"He doesn't take torture seriously; he doesn't take the Geneva Convention seriously; he doesn't take due process rights seriously; and he doesn't take international law seriously.

"And that is more important than whether he takes Amnesty International seriously."

UPDATE - It turns out that Guantanamo is scheduled for an upgrade, and the contractor is Halliburton, and we know that we have an administration headed by businesspeople, so there's your answer. My economics professor loves to say - follow the money....