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Guantanamo Troops Complain To Kennedy, Akaka About Democratic Rhetoric
The Washington Times ^ | July 22, 2005 | Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough

Posted on 07/22/2005 12:07:54 PM PDT by Antioch

Soldiers from Massachusetts and Hawaii who work at the U.S. military detention facility at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, gave visiting home-state senators a piece of their mind last week. Sens. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat, and Daniel K. Akaka, Hawaii Democrat, met with several soldiers during a visit led by Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John W. Warner, Virginia Republican. Pentagon officials said soldiers criticized the harsh comments made recently by Senate Democrats. Sen. Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the Senate's No. 2 Democrat, last month invoked widespread military outrage when he compared Guantanamo to the prison labor systems used by communist tyrant Josef Stalin, Cambodia's Pol Pot and Adolf Hitler. "They got stiff reactions from those home-state soldiers," one official told us. "The troops down there expressed their disdain for that kind of commentary, especially comparisons to the gulag." A spokesman for Mr. Kennedy had no comment. A spokeswoman for Mr. Akaka confirmed that the senator met with soldiers from Hawaii but did not recall receiving any complaints during the meeting. Both senators made no mention of the incident in press statements after the visit. Mr. Kennedy, in his statement, said that he is "impressed with the courtesies and professionalism of the men and women in our armed forces."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; US: Hawaii; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 109th; bloviators; cpusa; gitmo; swimmer
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1 posted on 07/22/2005 12:07:56 PM PDT by Antioch
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To: Antioch

hehe, gotta wonder whether these guys were rotated into Club Gitmo for this very reason.


2 posted on 07/22/2005 12:09:28 PM PDT by Mercat
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To: Antioch

With the rest of the major stories over the past week, I'm glad the Wash Times didn't let this fall thru the cracks and go unreported.


3 posted on 07/22/2005 12:11:33 PM PDT by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: Antioch

It's an embarassment to our nation when some of members of Congress and the Senate actually serve there.

Kennedy ranks right up there.


4 posted on 07/22/2005 12:11:46 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
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To: Antioch
Should say:

"Mr. Kennedy, in his statement, said ....."

"go to **bleeping** hell, you Nazi sympathizers."

5 posted on 07/22/2005 12:13:58 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: DoughtyOne

Should have let Teddy swim home.


6 posted on 07/22/2005 12:14:03 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: SERKIT

I hear he's deathly afraid of the water, even if it's only a few feet deep.


7 posted on 07/22/2005 12:18:13 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
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To: Antioch

OOOOOOOO-RAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Top sends


8 posted on 07/22/2005 12:18:58 PM PDT by petro45acp (SUPPORT/BE YOUR LOCAL SHEEPDOG!!!!)
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To: Antioch
I hope they shoved Kennedy up against a wall while delivering
their comments !
Akaka is so senile , there is good reason to believe he
'didn't recall' .
Hawaii does an appalling job of electing it's Federal representatives. Just pathetic....
9 posted on 07/22/2005 12:19:05 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: DoughtyOne; All

I'm astounded at how long Kennedy has been able to stay in office.

Admittedly, he gets tons of mileage from the family name and his two dead brothers.

But his antics (Chappaquiddick, etc) and bloviating speeches would have worn thin on the voters of most other states.

Kennedy must have one hell of a constituent services effort going out of his congressional offices for state residents to put up with him.

Anyone here have something to offer up as to how Kennedy has managed to stayb in office this damned long?


10 posted on 07/22/2005 12:21:22 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: Antioch

I do so hope our boys down there gave Fat Ted, and others Dim's an ass ripping in no uncertain terms. DurtBin is an unforgivable POS...


11 posted on 07/22/2005 12:21:44 PM PDT by el_texicano
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To: Antioch
I heard the troops finished the session by taking a Akaka and wiping their Kennedy.

These guys (Kennedy, et al) have no shame.

Best Regards

Sergio
12 posted on 07/22/2005 12:21:54 PM PDT by Sergio (If a tree fell on a mime in the forest, would he make a sound?)
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To: Antioch

think this will show up anywhere on TV tonight???


13 posted on 07/22/2005 12:23:11 PM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: Antioch

Fat Teddy is appalling.


14 posted on 07/22/2005 12:23:14 PM PDT by hershey
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To: Antioch

American Soldiers: You Mr Kennedy are a BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP!
What FAT TED HEARS! BLAH BLAH BLAH
What Fat TED thinks: When is happy our here! What did he say, do these peons know who i am?
I hate Ted Kennedy wish it was him and not Robert who bought it in 68.


15 posted on 07/22/2005 12:26:37 PM PDT by partyrepub
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To: MplsSteve
All I know is it certainly doesn't say much for Massachusetts. Of course I've got a lot of room to talk with the likes of Boxer/Feinstein in my state.

Gag me...
16 posted on 07/22/2005 12:28:23 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
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To: Antioch

I'm glad Kennedy is upset about a Cuban prison. Too bad it's not one of Castro's.


17 posted on 07/22/2005 12:28:57 PM PDT by Semper Paratus
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To: MplsSteve

It's an Occam's Razor thing.

Simple answer is the right one.

The people of *assachusetts are damned commie idiots.
They elected Romney and Kerry too.

I believe the entire congressional delegation are socialists, most of them are openly members of the democrapping socialists of America, the order of the red rose.

http://www.dsausa.org/


18 posted on 07/22/2005 12:29:03 PM PDT by the gillman@blacklagoon.com (Google search CFR North American Community.)
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To: the gillman@blacklagoon.com

All ten voted against extending the Patriot Act.


19 posted on 07/22/2005 12:32:35 PM PDT by massgopguy (massgopguy)
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To: Antioch

any video tape would be telling,,wait--does it matter if there is VIDEO and Nobody (except fox) aired it,then IS there video???


20 posted on 07/22/2005 12:33:19 PM PDT by rang1995 (They will love us when we win)
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