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Durbin is Right (The Full, Awful Truth About Gitmo)[HUMOR]
Anonymous source | June 17, 2005 | wizardoz

Posted on 06/17/2005 5:20:30 PM PDT by wizardoz

The time has come to face the ugly truth: Dick Durban is right; the things our military is doing in Guantanemo Bay to prisoners is tantamount to torture.

Here is the side of Guantanemo you won't hear from the mainstream media. Only those of us who have a friend whose neighbor's son's ex-girlfriend's brother is actually there hear the stomach-churning stories of questioning tactics that are routinely visited on the detainees at Gitmo. Read ahead if you dare, but I warn you, it's not for the weak-hearted.

My contacts inside tell me that the prisoners are forced to sit on hard wooden chairs for hours with no cushions. Think about that. That’s like sitting in a baseball stadium all afternoon… but no game is playing. There's no beer. They don't even get peanuts. Even first year law school students listening to tort lectures aren’t subjected to that more than three days a week. But in Gitmo, it can happen four, even five days a week. Yes, really.

And that’s not all. Prisoners are forced to stand for hours and hours on end in extreme temperatures as if they are waiting outside a box office for U2 tickets. But there’s no U2 ticket at the end of this torture. No. Instead they hear rap music, or worse. Christina Aguilera. Perhaps the average American (who doesn’t have a teenager) doesn’t know this, but Christina Aguilera can cause bleeding from the ears. But this is what is being done in our name every day down in Gitmo.

And the orange-glazed chicken you’ve heard so much about? I’ll let you in on a little secret: it’s dry.

”I could barely wash it down,” complained Ahmar al Killemall. “My twelve-year old bride could make a better orange-glazed chicken than that. And this salad was made with iceberg lettuce,” he adds. “What, the U.S. can’t afford romaine? Come on.”

And then there’s the sleep-deprivation torture. These detainees are kept up for hours at night with blaring noises, until they are as bleary and nauseous as a new parent with a baby in the house. This can go on for weeks. Like a new parent with a baby in the house. They sometimes grow so exhausted that they fall asleep on their feet! Like a new parent, with a baby in the house.

The list of atrocities goes on and on. The detainees’ cells are as small as a college dorm room, and in many of them… I’m sorry to say it… but there isn’t even a view of the water. Not even a view, for God’s sake! It's an island, they can't arrange a room with a view?

They don’t have cable tv, either. Do you know who Donald Trump’s new apprentice is? Well, don’t ask a prisoner at Gitmo, because they don’t know either. They don’t know who won American Idol. They've never seen Six Feet Under. They don’t even know about Tom and Katie! Do you understand the implications of that? By the time they hear about the wedding, the divorce will be final and they won’t even be able to get in on the betting pool.

How can we do this to other human beings?

I also have it on good authority that their religion is routinely, subtly insulted in various ways. The prayer mats they kneel on clash with their uniforms, for example. And the Koran is often given dirty looks by our soldiers. The beards cultivated by the faithful are sometimes mocked. One soldier was heard to refer to three detainees as “ZZ Top,” and another even said to a detainee’s face, “Yo, what up, Gandalf?” Words hurt, people! They hurt!

Is this the sort of face we should show to the world? Is this what we want done in our name? Is this what America stands for?


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: amnesty; comedy; detainees; dontzot; funny; gitmo; guantanemobay; hahaha; joke; notazot; orangeglazedchicken; parody; readbeforezot; readingisforwimps; readingisgood; satire; supposedtobeajoke; terrorists; torture; whobotherstoread; zotnot
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I'm sorry, but I just think people needed to hear the ugly truth.
1 posted on 06/17/2005 5:20:32 PM PDT by wizardoz
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To: wizardoz

Bye bye..


2 posted on 06/17/2005 5:21:55 PM PDT by Dog
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To: wizardoz

Ugly truth? More like load of bovine digestive byproduct.


3 posted on 06/17/2005 5:22:03 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa (Life's a beach - and Liberals are like the sand that gets in your swimsuit...)
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To: wizardoz

LOL!


5 posted on 06/17/2005 5:23:12 PM PDT by Jean S
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To: William Creel

I thought it was ..but wasn't sure.


6 posted on 06/17/2005 5:23:13 PM PDT by Dog
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To: wizardoz

Thanks for the chuckle!


7 posted on 06/17/2005 5:23:31 PM PDT by kiki04 ("If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is a man who has so much as to be out of danger?" - THH)
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To: Dog

Uhm....I think it's satire?!?


8 posted on 06/17/2005 5:24:06 PM PDT by PilloryHillary
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To: Dog

Man you don't read posts.


9 posted on 06/17/2005 5:24:30 PM PDT by USAfearsnobody
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To: wizardoz

Cracked me up!


10 posted on 06/17/2005 5:24:32 PM PDT by Califelephant (Democrats: "We've always been soft on criminals, but now we're soft on terrorists too.")
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To: Blurblogger


11 posted on 06/17/2005 5:24:38 PM PDT by PilloryHillary
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To: Dog

Read it again, dude. It says the detainees are getting salads with only iceburg lettuce! No Romaine or Radicchio, just iceburg.


12 posted on 06/17/2005 5:24:41 PM PDT by Petronski (Be alert! The world needs more lerts.)
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To: Petronski

It's a crime!


13 posted on 06/17/2005 5:24:59 PM PDT by Petronski (Be alert! The world needs more lerts.)
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To: Keith in Iowa

Its a joke, and a pretty funny one.


14 posted on 06/17/2005 5:25:24 PM PDT by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: wizardoz
Instead they hear rap music, or worse, Christina Aguilera.

Wow, now THAT'S torture!! ;)

15 posted on 06/17/2005 5:25:28 PM PDT by DTogo (U.S. out of the U.N. & U.N out of the U.S.)
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They sometimes grow so exhausted that they fall asleep on their feet! Like a new parent, with a baby in the house.

This has actually happened to me. I had a baby and then twins 11 months later. Sometimes, I was so exhausted I had to lie down right on the kitchen floor until I could recover my strength. I wouldn't give those horrible people any children to care for, but it would be an eye opener for senator Turbin.

16 posted on 06/17/2005 5:26:17 PM PDT by Bahbah (Something wicked this way comes)
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To: wizardoz
Stop Dick the Turbin Durbin before he aids our enemy again!
DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS!!!!

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17 posted on 06/17/2005 5:26:20 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Man, You should have seen them, kickin Edgar Allen Poe! Koo Koo Kachoo)
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To: wizardoz

Nicely done.


18 posted on 06/17/2005 5:26:30 PM PDT by Interesting Times (ABCNNBCBS -- yesterday's news.)
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19 posted on 06/17/2005 5:27:06 PM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (SICK DICK VERMIN DURBIN THE TURBAN)
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To: wizardoz

Ha! Clever.


20 posted on 06/17/2005 5:27:08 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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