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GOP Senator on Un-harsh Life At Gitmo: 'Anyone Over 55 Can Have a Colonoscopy'
Political Punch ^ | 05/20/09 | Jake Tapper

Posted on 05/20/2009 10:12:03 AM PDT by Big_Monkey

ABC News' Z. Byron Wolf reports that on Capitol Hill, during a GOP presser in which Senators were talking about the need to keep the detainee center at Guantanamo Bay open, Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., argued that "anyone, any detainee, over 55 has an opportunity to have a colonoscopy" as an example of how un-harsh life at Gitmo can be.

"Now none of them take 'em up on it, because once they explain what it is, none of them want to do it," Inhofe said. "But nonetheless it's an opportunity that they have."


TOPICS: Cuba; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: detainees; gitmo; guantanamo; wot
Inhofe cuts through the BS.
1 posted on 05/20/2009 10:12:04 AM PDT by Big_Monkey
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To: Big_Monkey

Is that a medical procedure or a form of torture?


2 posted on 05/20/2009 10:15:05 AM PDT by slumber1
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To: Big_Monkey

A colonoscopy costs about $3,500. I bet illegal aliens get em for free but if you have an HSA plan - you have to pay for it.


3 posted on 05/20/2009 10:15:19 AM PDT by Frantzie
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To: Big_Monkey
"once they explain what it is, none of them want to do it"

it brings back bad memories for them.

pedophile
4 posted on 05/20/2009 10:16:00 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out (click my name)
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To: Big_Monkey

Sphincter boarding is a war crime.


5 posted on 05/20/2009 10:17:35 AM PDT by TADSLOS (God Bless Texas- where freedom still has a chance.)
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To: Big_Monkey

If described a certain way I’m sure that a colonoscopy would be considered torture.


6 posted on 05/20/2009 10:19:33 AM PDT by Eagle Eye (Defending RINOs is the same as defending Liberals.)
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To: Big_Monkey

Put the camera on the front of a Kenworth.


7 posted on 05/20/2009 10:21:02 AM PDT by bmwcyle (American voters can fix this world if they would just wake up.)
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To: TADSLOS

“Sphincter boarding is a war crime.”

That is not as serious a crime as forcible viewing of Helen Thomas in the nude. :-)


8 posted on 05/20/2009 10:21:50 AM PDT by verity ("Lord, what fools we mortals be!")
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To: Big_Monkey

I wonder if I’ll get the same access to free health care when I’m classified as a “domestic terrorist”? You know, a conservative believing Catholic/Christian, pro-innocent life, gun toting heterosexual male?


9 posted on 05/20/2009 10:27:05 AM PDT by Emmett McCarthy
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To: verity

As a taxpayer, I demand that GITMO detainee’s colonoscopy videos be personally reviewed by the Speaker of the House and the House Intelligence Committee for details of detainee’s release of critical and actionable intelligence.


10 posted on 05/20/2009 10:27:59 AM PDT by TADSLOS (God Bless Texas- where freedom still has a chance.)
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To: Big_Monkey

TO BOLDLY GO WHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE.


11 posted on 05/20/2009 10:29:28 AM PDT by Pistolshot (The Soap-box, The Ballot-box, The Jury-box, And The Cartridge-Box ...we are past 2 of them.)
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To: Big_Monkey
"You are going to do what?"

"Well, Abdul, we're gonna stick this here hose up yer tookus and take a bunch of pictures until it comes out yer nose..."

"No no! I will talk!"

"No, lissen, Abdul, it's fer yer own good. We all do it..."

"You are a fiend! This is against international law!"

"No, wait there, Abdul. All ya gotta do is drink this here stuff and you'll poop for about eight hours..."

"This is inhuman! I am notifying Amnesty Inernational!"

"...and starve for 24 hours and then we do the up-yer-butt tonsil check..."

"It is enough! Waterboard me, please!"

12 posted on 05/20/2009 11:19:09 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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GOP Senator on Un-harsh Life At Gitmo: 'Anyone Over 55 Can Have a Colonoscopy'

Actually, they could get the same thing at any American prison. The only difference is that the procedure will be performed by their cellmate 'Tiny'!

13 posted on 05/20/2009 11:22:55 AM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: slumber1
"Is that a medical procedure or a form of torture"

Torture: Only if the probe diameter exceeds 7 inches.

Medical Procedure: Only if the probe diameter is between 5-to-7 inches.

Pleasure: Only if the probe diameter between 3-to-5 inches.

14 posted on 05/20/2009 1:14:10 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Big_Monkey
It should be made known that for those of a delicate stomach type constitution where the real "torture" comes in. Let me say that any joke at my expense is welcome. All in a good cause.

For one has to, unless Canadian procedures are not as advanced as others, start the night before. It is an orange tasting liquid taken all at once. to absolutely clear the system. I had cried and resisted. I could hardly take it even in sips. but my spouse stomped on me (laughs).

Result first "Katie Couric" two and a half polyps. Second one: one and a half polyps. Third and last "Katie" half a polyp .

I know how to handle the orange drink now and kill the taste buds with orange juice first, then swig it.

Man, those devils do not know how lucky they are- being offered this. I expect the rotten so and so's even get one of the greatest miracles (my view) in medical science. This is pennicillen. The British Army refused to give me any for boils. Thought it was a waste of the stuff.

Excuse the rant, and love Katie for at least one thing. LOL

15 posted on 05/20/2009 1:49:11 PM PDT by Peter Libra
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To: SuperLuminal
Torture: Only if the probe diameter exceeds 7 inches.

Medical Procedure: Only if the probe diameter is between 5-to-7 inches.

Pleasure: Only if the probe diameter between 3-to-5 inches.


I don't even want to know how you came by this information
16 posted on 05/20/2009 3:55:52 PM PDT by slumber1
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To: slumber1
My colonoscopist said, "Give me enough air pressure, and you will tell me anything I want to know."
17 posted on 05/20/2009 5:53:58 PM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...!!)
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