In a video reportedly from 2006, a young Iraqi child was captured asking a U.S. soldier why America killed his dad. The soldier being questioned responds that it wasn't him who killed the young boy's father. When the child continues his line of questioning, the soldier turns the question around, asking him "do you hate Americans?" and "do you want to shoot me?"
The systematic demonization of detainees at Guantanamo was critical to the denials of any hearing to them, leading many lawyers to believe their clients were monsters.