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How The Taliban Treated A Detainee

By The Daily Dish

Oct 19 2009, 9:22 AM ET

Pretty well, according to David Rhode:

They vowed to follow the tenets of Islam that mandate the good treatment of prisoners. In my case, they unquestionably did. They gave me bottled water, let me walk in a small yard each day and never beat me.

So that's one more feather in Cheney's cap: he brought prisoner treatment under the US to below that of the Taliban.



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