Posted on 09/25/2006 7:57:13 AM PDT by MNJohnnie
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1702290/posts?page=1
The Good Life At Gitmo
ON the military plane back from America's most fa mous terrorist holding pen, the in-flight film was "V for Vendetta," a screed that tries to justify terrorism. It was a fitting end to a surreal, military-sponsored trip.
The Pentagon seemed to be hoping to disarm its critics by showing them how well it cares for captured terrorists. The trip was more alarming than disarming. I spent several hours with Rear Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr., who heads the joint task force that houses and interrogates the detainees. (The military isn't allowed to call them "prisoners.")
Harris, a distinguished Navy veteran who was born in Japan and educated at Annapolis and Harvard, is a serious man trying to do a politically impossible job. I spoke with him at length, and with a dozen other officers and guards, and visited three different detention blocks.
The high-minded critics who complain about torture are wrong. We are far too soft on these guys - and, as a result, aren't getting the valuable intelligence we need to save American lives.
The politically correct regulations are unbelievable. Detainees are entitled to a full eight hours sleep and can't be woken up for interrogations. They enjoy three meals and five prayers per day, without interruption. They are entitled to a minimum of two hours of outdoor recreation per day.
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Hope you have a great one. :)
Hakuna Macaca, my friends!
Harry Smith had his @$$ handed to him!!
Spoken by someone who has yet to see the North side of 60?
Thanks for 399 and 397, will read later.
Thank You
Thank You
Rush is giving me that come hither look. I love it!
50, eh?...Welcome to the ranks of the boomer oldsters.
That's priceless. Michael Schier, former CIA Agent hands Clinton his head, saying at least Bush tried the one time they had a chance and botched it but had boots on the ground, and clinton missed 8 to 10 chances, and didn't even try on those chances, and he's no conservative by any means. PRICELESS!!!
Along with governing by polls.
Wow
Yep;)
Toon in total meltdown!!!
Can't show what you don't have. Clinton wouldn't know modesty anymore then honesty.
I just heard Rush play Schier. Is there a thread on this?
Thanks FF. 30 was nothing, and 40 was nothing, but this 50 thing has really kind of, I don't know...ticked me off isn't the right words either. Just doesn't seem right that I'm that old, but I'm now old enough to know not to make that much of it.
Beats the alternative.
Happy FReeping!
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