Cheney's resort comment (re: GTMO) rebuked (The Guardian)

[Up2Late]

(O.K. now he is approaching Delusional, also, notice how just about everything he says is ambiguous.)

Cheney's resort comment rebuked

Guantánamo prisoners "living in tropics" says US vice-president

Jamie Wilson in Washington
Saturday June 25, 2005
The Guardian

The American vice-president, Dick Cheney, provoked fresh uproar over Guantánamo Bay yesterday after he claimed that prisoners held by the US there were "living in the tropics" and had been given everything they could possibly want.

His comments, the latest attempt by leading Republicans to portray the prison at the US base in Cuba as something of a holiday camp, came as evidence emerged that military doctors have helped interrogators by advising them how to increase stress levels and exploit the fears of the detainees.

A UN team that has been repeatedly denied access to the detainees also claimed it had credible evidence of torture at the camp, where more than 500 Muslim men are held without charge or trial.

In an interview with CNN, however, Mr Cheney insisted: "They got a brand new facility down at Guantánamo. We spent a lot of money to build it. They're very well treated there. They're living in the tropics. They're well fed. They've got everything they could possibility want." He added: "There isn't any other nation in the world that would treat people who were determined to kill Americans the way we're treating these people."

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,13743,1514413,00.html?gusrc=rss>
(more at link above)

[uppityperson]

1. I'll agree with that last line. Rather a bushlie.

"There isn't any other nation in the world that would treat people who were determined to kill Americans the way we're treating these people."

Nothing to be proud of for that.

[Up2Late]

3. Exactly, everything hes says is rather ambiguous or...

...they are statements that you can say, "Well, I guess you could say it that way...":crazy:

[Media_Lies_Daily]

5. Except about two-thirds of those people aren't guilty of anything....

...except being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[Turbineguy]

2. All those people

who died while building the Panama Canal, they were in the tropics too.

[Moochy]

4. They've got everything they could possibility want

Those darn freedom loving terrorists,they dont want freedom see?

Makes sense now. :eyes:

[grytpype]

6. Just look at those pretty smokestacks.

[dchill]

7. "...the way we're treating these people."

Gee, Dick, does it depend on what the meaning of the word "is" is?

[ovidsen]

8. They're living in the tropics?

Yeah, numbing heat, stifling humidity, mosquitoes... paradise!

[Gelliebeans]

9. I noticed that the guardian

is careful to use the word "republicans" to distinguish between bush and company and the reality based community here in the US.

[libodem]

10. He's been listening to RW radio again

man are those guys ever making it sound like summer camp with gourmet meals and holiday cheer.

[Up2Late]

11. Yeah, Dick makes it sound like such a great place! Wonder why...

...Dick won't let any of the U.N. Investigators visit to see if the food and Tropical, holiday camp setting are as good as he claims. :sarcasm: