if these people had been declared prisoners of war, they would have had to have been detained in accomodation with conditions at least equivalent to the conditions that army soldiers lived in in the US.

by declining to acknowledge that they were being held as POWs of the US, these people have been held totally outside all internationally accepted standards and laws, without supervisions by any neutral outside organisation.

the crime is that the liberators have become perpatrators, in focussing on the perceived evil of their captives, the captors have taken on those very qualities themselves.

they have become like the thing they claim to oppose.