"We let them choose the color of their feeding tubes. What more do you want?"

Is it inhumane to strap people down, thread tubes down their noses, and force-feed them several times a day because their hunger strike is 'disruptive' and stressing out the medical personnel? Nah, not if you indulge them by letting them choose the color fo their feeding tubes. In any case, it's not force-feeding, it's 'providing nutritional supplementation on a voluntary basis to detainees who wish to protest their confinement by not taking oral nourishment.'

There is a special circle in hell reserved for those who write such Orwellian things and aren't joking about them.

The NYTimes reports:

Detainees said the Guantánamo medical staff also began inserting and removing the long plastic feeding tubes that were threaded through the detainees' nasal passages and into their stomachs at every feeding, a practice that caused sharp pain and frequent bleeding, they said. Until then, doctors there said, they had been allowing the hunger strikers to leave their feeding tubes in, to reduce discomfort.

Military spokesmen have generally discounted the complaints, saying the prisoners are for the most part terrorists, trained by Al Qaeda to use false stories as propaganda.

In a letter to a British physician and human rights activist, Dr. David J. Nicholl, on Dec. 12, the former chief medical officer at Guantánamo, Capt. John S. Edmondson of the Navy, wrote that his staff was not force-feeding any detainees but "providing nutritional supplementation on a voluntary basis to detainees who wish to protest their confinement by not taking oral nourishment."

General Craddock suggested that the medical staff had indulged the hunger strikers to the point that they had been allowed to choose the color of their feeding tubes.

Two other Defense Department officials said a decision had been made to try to break the hunger strikes because they were having a disruptive effect and causing stress for the medical staff.