Huckabee just said in a debate that conditions in Guantanamo are "too good." Puts Mitt Romney's promise to "double" it in a new light.
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Too Good
06 Jan 2008 08:55 pm
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good god. And yet he sounds so humane (but still idiotic) on immigration.
Does that make conditions in Guantanamo double-plus-good?
I'm still waiting for one of the Republicans to pull off the ultimate double play of wingnut fanaticism, and announce his new plan to send all of the illegal Mexican immigrant children to Guantanamo, to be tortured twice before being shipped back to Mexico.
i'm confident that he'll be the nominee. Huck's a hick.
That's just what Jesus said!
Too good, huh? I wonder if he means we don't torture 24/7/365 (including both the Christian and Moslem sabbaths), or if we thinks chain link fenced closets are too spacious, or what? Bread and water diets might move in his preferred direction, or gulag 'soup'. Perhaps he thinks the prisoners should be forced to sleep in their own defecations and urine? Or eat it?
Could be that he wants to re-enact “Arbeit Macht Frei” and put the prisoners at hard labor in slave conditions until they die and then make their bodies into a source of alternate burned energy in US power plants, so that the good US citizens can ignore (like those from the WWII era in middle Europe) that peculiar odor wafting across the countryside.
He's got a real X-tian heart, doesn't he?
Maybe we need to import some lions for weekly test-matches between the prisoners and the beasts (or are all the prisoners just beasts too?). Reality TV, for sure.
I'm a rack, draw and quarter kind of guy. Much better spectacles for the crowds - Fox TV News would be the right venue for watching, with pre-match winner polls, instant replays, slow-mo, multiple cam angles, post-match punditing, etc.
[And the fundamentalist 'Christians' wonder why they are ridiculed by people of reason and conscience...]
While I deplore the use of torture and think Guantanamo is an utter abomination and antithetical to every American value, it is fairly ridiculous that a prisoner in Guantanamo can get chemotherapy but 47 million uninsured Americans can't.
http://health.yahoo.com/news/afp/usattacksprisonjusticeguantanamo.html
LOL, maybe that's why Mitt wants to double Guantanamo--the health care plan is "get declared an enemy combatant."
Was the Focus Group at Romney Headquarters?
That was hilarious
Just like his sudden 180-degree turn on immigration. What we have here is very definitely Elmer Gantry for President. The last reason for not regarding him as the absolute worst of a very bad lot has now disappeared.
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Hey, the weather's nice, the orange jumpsuits are clean, the open air cages are, well, airy and bright. And if you miss a few meals, they are kind enough to feed you intravenously! It's almost too good to be true!
Hey, the weather's nice, the orange jumpsuits are clean, the open air cages are, well, airy and bright. And if you miss a few meals, they are kind enough to feed you intravenously! It's almost too good to be true!
@anonymiss
They have doctors there to keep them alive so that the detainees can be "interogated" longer. They have psychologists there so that can figure out new and inventive ways to fuck with their minds.
@Bruce Moomaw
This is what you get when you glorify anti-intellectualism.
"Maybe we need to import some lions for weekly test-matches between the prisoners and the beasts."
I'll go with that - as long as the prisoners are the original targets of that methodology - the Christians.
As for being fed intravenously, no, they shove a tube down your throat and force feed you - which means you spend a good deal of time vomiting.
It's called torture. They do it in all US prisons for hunger strike prisoners - except in US prisons, they are SUPPOSED to - but never do - check with the prisoner's sentencing judge first and provide evidence that the treatment is needed - which is supposed to provide the judge an opportunity to question why the prisoner was on a hunger strike (although I doubt they ever do.)
Let's send him there after the Dems beat his ass in the election.
Posted by Richard Steven Hack
I love the terrorist rights anti-Americans that sympathize with the enemy. Most are Leftists, of course, because they were absolutely silent about rights of POWs - the ones that observed Geneva - the two million Germans and Iralians we had in worse facilities than GITMO with none of the gourmet meals and access to ACLU shysters.
JimPortOR - Could be that he wants to re-enact “Arbeit Macht Frei” and put the prisoners at hard labor in slave conditions until they die and then make their bodies into a source of alternate burned energy in US power plants, so that the good US citizens can ignore (like those from the WWII era in middle Europe) that peculiar odor wafting across the countryside.
Typical Lefty glorification of the enemy. America is the Nazi Regime, and the Jihadis are the good guys.
To Chris Ford: I was clearly talking about Huck's mental attitude (and the attitude of many in the GOP) about the detainees (they haven't been tried, so technically they are not even guilty of something,) and NOT about what America "IS".
I'd say 'bite me, Chris" but you aren't worthy of that privilege.
Perhaps you'd be more comfortable in some truly totalitarian state (Zimbabwae?)?
No, Zimbabwe would be out for Chris - since I doubt they like Ku Klux Klan members there.
BTW, Chris, I don't sympathize with any enemy. I just don't get off torturing people or bloviating about it like you do.
Jihadis are morons - just like you. No difference between you and them.
And that's what really gripes you, doesn't it? The fact that there is no intellectual distance between you and a bunch of nitwits willing to blow themselves up for a "Caliphate".
But the real problem for America is that they're over there and not a threat - and you're here and scum like you are ruining the country just because you hate them.
"ACLU shysters" - hmm, wonder what that means?
Huckabee actually was saying that Gitmo should be closed and the prisoners moved to Leavenworth, and if he needs to argue by saying it's b/c Gitmo is too nice (it is newer and less overcrowded than most state/fed prisons) for the GOP primary, I'm actually fine with it, as the right result is reached. He was defending his comment from Mitt "Double Guantanamo" Romney and Fred "I pretend to know what's going on" Thompson.
I'd like to see some follow up on the Thompson-Huckabee argument about the status of habeas corpus for those at Gitmo and the Supreme Court case. I'm almost positive Huck was actually right that the Rasul Supreme Court case said that being located at Gitmo doesn't make any difference in terms of the detainees' access to habeas corpus, even though Huck didn't seem as confident that he was correct as Thompson did. The current case is over the timing of habeas review (i.e. now or after the detainee's military commission) and the overall constitutionality of the military commissions.
Forget Gitmo. The Dem president can just declare them all enemy combatants and rendition them to some torture-friendly locale.
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Heads in the Sand
Let's send him there after the Dems beat his ass in the election.
Posted by Richard Steven Hack | January 6, 2008 8:59 PM