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The Real Gitmo: 100% Humane
New York Post ^ | February 26, 2009 | Congressman Pete King

Posted on 02/26/2009 5:42:10 AM PST by Sergeant Tim

HAVING just returned from leading a con gressional delegation to the terrorist-detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, I am more convinced than ever that President Obama's executive order to close Gitmo by next Jan. 22 is wrong and misguided and, if fully implemented, will threaten American security at home and abroad. ... If there's any scandal at Guantanamo, it is that the detainees are treated too well. Consider what I observed:

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: barackobama; bho44; gitmo; guantanamo; obama; peteking; wot

1 posted on 02/26/2009 5:42:10 AM PST by Sergeant Tim
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To: Just Lori; TheForceOfOne; SilvieWaldorfMD; Tennessee Nana; ThreePuttinDude; eastsider; del4hope; ..

Ping!


2 posted on 02/26/2009 5:43:52 AM PST by Sergeant Tim (In the War on Terror, there is no place to run from here.)
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To: Sergeant Tim

back atcha!


3 posted on 02/26/2009 5:46:52 AM PST by HonestConservative (http://www.operationvalentine.blogspot.com/)
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To: Sergeant Tim
It should not be humane, that should be reserved for humans.
4 posted on 02/26/2009 5:55:08 AM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ((B.?) Hussein (Obama?Soetoro?Dunhem?), change America will die for.)
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran

You have a point there yet, hopey changey, the 2012 reelection slogan has already been written: What al Qaeda?


5 posted on 02/26/2009 6:01:27 AM PST by Sergeant Tim (In the War on Terror, there is no place to run from here.)
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To: Sergeant Tim

How long before that wuss Murdoch apologizes for this article like he did the “racist” cartoon last week?


6 posted on 02/26/2009 6:01:28 AM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: Sergeant Tim
* Detainees get three full meals a day with a choice of menu.

* Each detainee receives a Koran and a prayer rug.

* Arrows throughout the facility point toward Mecca.

* Detainees receive full medical treatment - including psychiatric services. There is one medical personnel for every two detainees.

* Detainees who comply with regulations are allowed out of their cells for 16 to 20 hours a day and participate in various recreational and educational activities including soccer, language training and art classes.

* Noncompliant detainees - including the hardest of the hard core - are allowed out of their cells for four to seven hours a day. (It was particularly galling to observe a vicious terrorist reclining in the sun like a Palm Beach retiree.)

* Detainees have access to live TV, books and two daily Arab newspapers plus USA Today. (I suppose it would be inhumane to subject them to The New York Times.)

* Detainees are allowed to confer to discuss courtroom strategy.

* Guards within the facility are not armed and are regularly subjected to abuse and harassment, including having human feces and urine thrown at them.

WHAT, no Wii or PS-3 Video Game Consoles? That's BRUTAL!!!

They should close that place down!

7 posted on 02/26/2009 6:03:26 AM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: WayneS
For what?

I don't see any bullet holes (unfortunately).

8 posted on 02/26/2009 6:06:07 AM PST by Sergeant Tim (In the War on Terror, there is no place to run from here.)
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To: Sergeant Tim
* Guards within the facility are not armed and are regularly subjected to abuse and harassment, including having human feces and urine thrown at them.

Sounds like Barney Frank would just simply adore a vacation down there.

9 posted on 02/26/2009 6:09:32 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (Yes, Gorbachev is better than Obama. At least Gorbachev admitted he was a Communist)
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To: VeniVidiVici

Thanks a LOT.

That’s the second time in two days one of someone else’s posts has made me throw up a little in my mouth as I was reading it!

;^)


10 posted on 02/26/2009 6:11:17 AM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: Sergeant Tim

I don’t know.

What did he have to apologize for regarding the cartoon?


11 posted on 02/26/2009 6:11:58 AM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: Sergeant Tim
Does this guy have a fat belly that is making his shirt stick out in front? Did he have that fat belly when he arrived at GITMO? No more cake for the prisoners.
12 posted on 02/26/2009 6:12:09 AM PST by Ditter
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To: Sergeant Tim

Our new President using terrorism and national defense to simply score political points.


13 posted on 02/26/2009 6:30:10 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Sergeant Tim
"The unfounded accusations that are so regularly and cavalierly made about Guantanamo are a slander against the brave men and women of our armed forces, who perform their duties at that facility so professionally and under such duress."

No enemy could destroy the United States of America without help from her own. Those willing to help her enemies seem to be growing in strength and number these days.

Benedict Arnold's greed, jealousy, and anger led him to become a traitor. Things haven't changed much in that regard. God bless us that things haven't changed too much with regard to numbers and strength among 'we, the people' who love our country and will defend her before it's too late.

14 posted on 02/26/2009 9:47:20 AM PST by LucyJo
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To: Sergeant Tim

LIBERAL Heads Exploding


15 posted on 02/26/2009 3:13:45 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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