RUMMY Sends Out "Top Ten Facts" About Why GITMO Is Such A Nice Place!

[kpete]

10 Things to Know About Guantanamo

By Al Kamen
Friday, September 15, 2006; Page A17

The Pentagon successfully avoided being on David Letterman's Top Ten list for many years. So this week Secretary Donald Rumsfeld 's speechwriters tried to help, sending out "Ten Facts About Guantanamo" to highlight what a nice place it is.

The first fact notes that the inmates include some truly nasty terrorist trainers and bombmakers. The second says "More money is spent on meals for detainees than" on U.S. troops stationed there. "The average weight gain per detainee is 20 pounds."

"The Muslim call to prayer sounds five times a day," we are told, and arrows point "toward the holy city of Mecca."

The prisoners receive free medical, dental and psychiatric care, and in 2005 "there were 35 teeth cleanings." The other 400 or so housed there will have to wait awhile.

the rest at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/14/AR2006091401478.html

[Generic Other]

1. Oh gack

This is beyond belief.

[Flabbergasted]

2. How do you sign up....I could use a teeth cleaning. No health Insurance!

[Nutmegger]

3. You and me both!

:cry:

[liberal N proud]

4. They get one thing that every American may not

The prisoners receive free medical, dental and psychiatric care

[Bluebear]

5. And TWO FRUITS! >>>>>>>>

[hootinholler]

13. Noodles Jefferson!

I still want that recipe!

-Hoot

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. What's wrong with these state of the art accommodations?

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,454575,00.jpg

Has Barbara Bush would say "you know they were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."

:sarcasm:

[kurth]

7. He should reserve a cell for himself there

Good place to retire for him.

[lyonn]

9. Can we interrogate him? I have a few questions

[Beelzebud]

8. The chicken and rice pilaf went straight to Rummy's watered brain.

[MADem]

10. This is a PANTWETTER!!!!!!! BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!

It's unintentional, but those are, of course, the best:

We are told that upon release, everyone gets "a Koran, a jean jacket, a white T-shirt, a pair of blue jeans, high-top sneakers" -- a second pair -- "a gym bag of toiletries" (remember not to try to take the liquids onboard), and "a pillow and blanket for the flight home."

What, no GITMO "Home Edition" Game??? But say, there Hajji, thanks for playing!!!!!

[AlamoDemoc]

11. Rumsfeld: Gitmo hunger strikers on "diet"

Asked about the motivation of the hunger strikers, Rumsfeld said:

"There are a number of people who go on a diet where they don't eat for a period and then go off of it at some point. And then they rotate and other people do that."

[KharmaTrain]

12. This Is Not Much Better Than His Rhetorical Press Conferences

He's the master of asking his own question when the one a reporter asks isn't to his liking. It's been such a hit others in this regime use it all the time. The corporate media still thinks he's a "rock star".

[OregonDem]

14. Since he thinks its so nice lets send him there

No trial, or anything because I am all for destroying the rights of leaders who try to take away the rights of citizens.