Paradise

Dick Cheney on the prisoners at Gitmo:

"They're living in the tropics. They're well fed. They've got everything they could possibly want."

Road trip?

Comments

[aaron]

They don't have to worry about food, shelter or clothing. We take care of them and treat them very well. We're helping them by explaining that Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven. And some of them we even treat like family. Oh no, wait- that was slavery.

[M. Butler]

I think we should dress them up, and under the threat of force, make them perform various Shakespeare plays. I'd like to see the Al Qaeda interpretation of Romeo and Juliet.

[Kramer]

Threat of force? Cheney and Rummy can do you one better. Lindy, you're on!

[briandtw]

You're killing me today, Aaron. Killing me.

[Babu]

Sounds like Anguilla, except with torture, Koran flushings, and spending all day sitting in your own excrement.

[jbcizool]

"They don't have to worry about food, shelter or clothing. We take care of them and treat them very well. We're helping them by explaining that Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven. And some of them we even treat like family. Oh no, wait- that was slavery."
Sounds a little like colonization too...sans food, shelter and clothing.

[Cozmo]

You know, it's not a popular stance and not apropos of the fact that we are totally skirting due process by holding these people for 3 plus years without charges, but we all know they never had it so good.

[membengal]

It must be a wonderul place to be in... a place where you can say whatever the fuck you want, no matter how outrageous, and NO ONE will call you on it who matters. Dick Cheney takes a piss on the head of appointed representatives of the "major media" every morning, just to start his day right. The he shits on them and laughs and says stuff like the above.

[Bluehorseshoe]

Saudi or Egyptian jails and Gitmo...I'd be choosing Gitmo. Anyone seen Midnight Express??

[Jackie]

"Anyone seen Midnight Express??"]

Phenomenal movie. Will certainly make you think once or twice before trying to smuggle a little somethin', somethin' on the plane.

[john pike]

Babu, you have obviously never been to Anguilla...

Seriously...in 3 or 4 years there better be some major Bob Woodward book on the 47 acts of terrorism that were averted because of this torture. I am all FOR torture that works...if there were these 47 prevented acts, I believe that this Admin (yes, the same one that I fellate on a daily basis) would be 'leaking' details of some to the press, even if doing so might damage on-going ops. The lack of reports of any successes has me confounded...I refuse to believe that the Admin is just doing it because they are evil and like to torture people...TELL US WHY!!! TELL US IT WORKS!!! Their silence is, unfortunately, deafening...

[Bluehorseshoe]

Thing about Gitmo is that for years Islamoterrorists attacked the US pretty much without fear of consequences...Lebanon, WTC1 etc. Now if they catch you it's pretty unpleasant. Now this aint gonna stop the pyscho Jihadis, what it will do is prevent the less rabid ones from deciding to take the feild.

[Jackie]

Listen, in my book, you're a terrorist you desrve whatever shit treatment you get. Thing is, Cheney need not be an ass by portraying the situation as paradise (and it seems pretty much accepted that some of the people there are being wrongly held).

True, I'm sure there are a number of cases of wrongful detention. But on the other hand if you travel abroad to undertake terrorist training you've joined the enemy, regardless of whether you actually did participate in a mission or not. Some of these guys, especially the UK ones that have now been released, have had the argument "sure I went and trained to kill innocent people but I never actually did anything so I'm Innocent". Not in my books.