Nelson (NE) and Wyden bought the Guantanamo Dog & Pony Show

[Skidmore]

and are satisfied that things have changed down there and nothing would be gained by closing it.

[KoKo]

1. Didn't the Nazi's try this ploy with the concentration camps?

Didn't Abu Graeb have an "inspection" but the inspectors were only allowed into one area?

hmpf. And Isn't Wyden the one that Blair's son is going to be "interning with?" :eyes:

[knowbody0]

2. what do they call this visit?

definitely not an investigation. if congress accepts this, we are doomed. nice attempt at PR. NOT

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. I wonder if the internees were issued new blankets

which were then collected again after the Red Cross, er, congressmen had left.

[hughee99]

6. Blankets???

It's the middle of June! It's 100 degrees down there, I think blankets are the least of their worries right now.

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. When the Nazis allowed inspectors from the Red Cross into

Terezin, they issued new blankets to all the prisoners, which were then taken away after the Red Cross left.

[hughee99]

9. Billy Wilder actually refer to this in the movie

Stalag 17. It gets a little colder in the Czech Republic than it does in Cuba, though, where the average low temperature in December and January is around 67 degrees, whereas in Prague it's around 25.

[Skidmore]

4. Yeesh..... these guys are using the Rs talking points

verbatim.

[Carla in Ca]

5. For the first time since November

I tuned in to MSNBC (sorry!) to get some reaction to the SCOTUS ruling on the Plame case. I watched an interview with 2 members of Congress that just got back from GITMO. They had nothing but kudos for the prison. The interviewer asked if they thought the 3-hour interrogation they witnessed was staged and they said "Oh no, when it was over, the prisoner got up and stretched!"

That's it, TV off again.

[LightningFlash]

8. Stretched?!??

Do these folks not know the meaning of the word "FASCISM" and thirteen degrees of torture, as just admitted in a classified report to the UNITED NATIONS Services committee?!???

http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001493.htm
:crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

These are NOT democrats!!! And Bill Nelson, if he is for real believing this, needs to do a press conference to explain WHY.

[Carla in Ca]

11. It was a Dem Congresswoman from (gulp) MY state!

I don't remember her name but she was explaining the conditions of the prison like it was a remodeled home. It was unbelievable. This visit was such a set-up, and they all fell for it.

[Hippo_Tron]

10. If they get to send Duncan Hunter, we should get to send Ted Kennedy...

Ben Nelson isn't going to dissent with the administration on this issue, he shouldn't have been sent.

Not to mention the fact that I'm sure the visit was all a show. Not to over use the Nazi references, but they cleaned up the concentration camps when inspectors wanted to come and see them.

[LightningFlash]

12. I really wonder what Durbin had to say!

And Kennedy needs to be over there too, they created this smokescreen to duck and cover.