Club Gitmo "Improving"

Members of the US Congress who toured Guantanamo Bay prison have said that conditions there are improving, despite renewed calls for its closure. Their visit came at a time of growing concern that treatment of prisoners there is harming America's image.

More than 500 non-Americans - many captured during the war in Afghanistan and declared "enemy combatants"- are being detained at the facility. Only four current inmates have been charged with any crime.

On Saturday 16 Representatives who sit on the House Armed Services Committee toured the prison, at a naval base on Cuba, during a one-day fact-finding trip. California Democrat Ellen Tauscher, who has pushed for greater transparency about the facility, told AP news agency there had been progress since reports about alleged human rights abuses.

How can this be? Guantanamo is like a Club Med, so sayeth the Dittoheads, so there's a logical gap here- it must be getting really luxurious: bottles of Fiji water [but without that "Enjoy this water, you'll be charged later" nonsense]; facials, pedicures.

Those lucky illegal combatants without any rights ...