Posted on 07/28/2009 5:51:20 PM PDT by james500
Drew Brees is a great quarterback but every once in awhile he makes a bad pass.
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I was on vacation at the time of the radio interview on July 10, but I'm surprised his comments about the controversial facility did not raise more eyebrows locally or nationally.
"I can say this after that experience -- the worst thing we can do is shut that baby down, for a lot of reasons," Brees said. "But I think there's a big misconception as to how we are treating those prisoners; those detainees over there. They are being treated probably 10 times better than any prisoner in a U.S. prison."
Brees made some other eye-opening statements:
"I mean, they're allowed to call and write letters home, and receive letters and calls. They get five opportunities a day to pray, and they have arrows in the prison pointing towards where Mecca is. And the prison goes dead silent so these guys can have their religious time. They have rooms where they can watch movies and play Nintendo Wii. So I think that just goes ahead and says it right there."
And:
"And you just talk to all the guards that are Army and Navy personnel, they'll tell you stories about how these prisoners, they'll be walking the cell blocks as they're keeping an eye on these guys and they'll be throwing the feces and urine in the faces of the guards as they walk by and the guards are not allowed to do anything. They're not allowed to physically retaliate or do anything hardly to try to restrain these guys at all. These guys get away with whatever they want."
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.nola.com ...
Maybe because Brees has actually been there to see it for himself rather than relying on someone like Keith Olbermann to tell him what to think.
"...he's asked to represent various organizations on trips like the U.S.O. tour he went on earlier this summer to the U.S. Naval base in Guantanamo Bay."
Sounds like a good guy.
You have to love us Purdue Alumni.
Split them up and drop them off in the middle of a CA exercise area.
I'm sure the gangs would sort them out there or better still keep the place open but take away all their perks ...
exercise area of a prison that is
Palin/Brees 2012!
holy cow! Go Brees! I always liked him, now I know why. Does he have any idea the can of worms he is opening?
Mr. Brees, from you comments, you are a reasonable and common sense kind of guy.
Mr. Duncan, from your comments you are a suck butt kind of guy.
I’ve liked Brees’ as an NFL quaterback and have heard how he is very active in his community working with children etc. His stock just went through the roof IMHO.
There. fixed it for you. Let them swim home if they can make it. That's more mercy than they show to our guys that they capture. I always did like Drew.
The comments to this pseudo-journalist’s little agenda driven propaganda piece are sure interesting.
I wish the Eagles had Brees. He is going to be one of the greats.
Agreed!
Somebody put the Media Death Watch trademark here, please.
Like the China Lake Naval Air Warfare Center. Or mabye the White Sands Missile Range in NM.
Go Boilers!
Go Boilermakers!
torture the snot outta their asses for any last remaining info they might have to possibly help save our soldiers lives in afghanistan and iraq,(and anywhere else for that matter), and then drop ‘em off all right.....drop ‘em all off and out from 20,000 feet up in the middle of the atlantic ocean.
His comments have more to do with growing up in Texas than being a Boiler Maker.
“The ‘reporter’ apparently disagrees. It’s a ‘bad pass’ and Jeff Duncan can’t understand why it didn’t ‘raise more eyebrows’.”
Have the prisoners bust rocks and sing “Miss Liza”.
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