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89 Guantanamo Detainees on Hunger Strike
Associated Press ^ | 6-1-06

Posted on 06/01/2006 1:20:26 PM PDT by GianniV

More Guantanamo Bay detainees protesting their indefinite confinement joined a hunger strike, raising the number of inmates refusing food to 89 from 75, the U.S. military said Thursday.

Six of the hunger strikers at the isolated U.S. naval base in southeast Cuba were being force-fed, said Navy Cmdr. Robert Durand.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gitmo; letemstarve
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This is great news! We were taught during the Terri Schiavo case that death by starvation is euphoric. That's good for these scumbag terrorists.

And to top it off, the quicker they die, the less we have to spend guarding them. And no more "prisoner abuse!"

Great news all around!

1 posted on 06/01/2006 1:20:30 PM PDT by GianniV
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Who cares... they are CONSTANTLY on hunger strikes. No reason for AP to write a story on it, or to post it here at FR.

The same thing will happen... after a week only half a dozen 'hard core' will be on the strike and those will get stick with a BIG NEEDLE and fed that way.

No biggie, and not news.


2 posted on 06/01/2006 1:22:30 PM PDT by FreedomNeocon (Success is not final; Failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts -- Churchill)
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Six of the hunger strikers at the isolated U.S. naval base in southeast Cuba were being force-fed, said Navy Cmdr. Robert Durand.

Not quite what I have in mind when reading thinking about being 'force-fed'. How bout force feeding the prisoners to a group of starving tigers.

3 posted on 06/01/2006 1:22:52 PM PDT by Catholic Canadian (Formerly Ashamed Canadian - thank you Stephen Harper!)
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To: GianniV

Good. Saves my tax dollar.


4 posted on 06/01/2006 1:23:17 PM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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To: GianniV

Sounds like a good time for a gyrene bar-b-que!
`I want some baby back baby back baby back . .'
(Place smoker grill up-wind from the moos)


5 posted on 06/01/2006 1:24:13 PM PDT by tumblindice
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Sounds like a good start to me!


6 posted on 06/01/2006 1:26:28 PM PDT by Russ_in_NC
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That's what the Israelis do when the prisoners hunger strike. They make a huge barbeque right next to the prison walls so the smells waft into the cells.

Never fails.

7 posted on 06/01/2006 1:27:30 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: GianniV

At first, I was opposed to the US intervening by force-feeding prisoners who had gone on hunger strike.

I thought "What the hell? Let the bastards starve to death."

Then I thought about it and came to the conclusion that some of these guys truly want to die because they will believe they will be martyrs.

Keeping them alive denies them the martyrdom they desire. It shows that the US has full and complete dominance over their lives.

That fact cannot be reassuring or appealing to the prisoners at Guantanamo.


8 posted on 06/01/2006 1:27:48 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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We should respect their ethnic diversity and let they strike.


9 posted on 06/01/2006 1:28:22 PM PDT by stop_fascism
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How about a show of hands for who cares? Anyone???


10 posted on 06/01/2006 1:28:29 PM PDT by Hardastarboard (Why isn't there an "NRA" for the rest of my rights?)
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They'll HAVE to close Guantanamo if every prisoner there goes on a hunger strike.


11 posted on 06/01/2006 1:30:30 PM PDT by D-Chivas
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Damned you baby back ribs!!!

Not only do you look, taste and smell good, but Mohammed cannot eat you because you are pork!

12 posted on 06/01/2006 1:37:29 PM PDT by lormand (Michael Savage - The "turd in the punch bowl" of Conservatism and a classless POS)
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To: Catholic Canadian

Alligators in Florida seem apropos.


13 posted on 06/01/2006 1:38:55 PM PDT by MarkeyD (Make Love, Not Cartoons. I really, really loathe liberals.)
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Mmmmmmm, ribs........dang, I just drooled on my keyboard


14 posted on 06/01/2006 1:38:59 PM PDT by tumblindice
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If we really were as bad as the Communists and Fascists the Left constantly supports, we wouldn't even let it out that they were on a hunger strike. When was the last time Castro's officials ever informed the world about their prisoner hunger strikes?


15 posted on 06/01/2006 1:40:32 PM PDT by Democratshavenobrains
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To: tumblindice

The baby back ribs are primarily the reason I can never be a Muslim or a Jew.


16 posted on 06/01/2006 1:41:42 PM PDT by lormand (Michael Savage - The "turd in the punch bowl" of Conservatism and a classless POS)
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You are torturing me, I am hungry!


17 posted on 06/01/2006 1:43:24 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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AHHHHHHHHHH Shucks! Them the breaks! What can I say?! :)


18 posted on 06/01/2006 1:47:36 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Nachum

hahaha!


19 posted on 06/01/2006 1:52:41 PM PDT by nikos1121
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They should take body bags and hang them in sight of the strikers' cells. The body bags should each have a cross painted on them.
20 posted on 06/01/2006 1:52:44 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Make them go home!!)
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