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Bush_Eats_Beef Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 12:07 AM
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Cheney: Gitmo prisoners "living in the tropics, they're well fed"...
Cheney also rejected calls for closing the detention facility for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, saying the inmates there "are serious, deadly threats" who will "go back to trying to kill Americans" if they are released.

He also defended the treatment of prisoners by the U.S. military at Guantanamo, telling Blitzer, "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."

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

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/23/cheney.interview/index.html



Cheney: "We will succeed in Iraq, just like we did in Afghanistan."

THE TROPICS:



GITMO:

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quaoar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 12:10 AM
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1. Oh yeah, they're at Club Med Gitmo
And then there is this comment in the same article:

Cheney compared the current situation in Iraq to the last months of World War II, when Germans launched a desperate offensive in the Battle of the Bulge and the Japanese offered stiff resistance on Okinawa.
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Bush_Eats_Beef Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 12:14 AM
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5. Yes, just like WWII, returning soldiers will kiss girls in the street.


...and just as we were welcomed in Iraq as liberators, Iraq will bask in its new-found democracy and send hand-written thank you notes to each and every American citizen.

:silly:
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quaoar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 12:12 AM
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3. Hope you enjoyed your stay here
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Bush_Eats_Beef Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 12:16 AM
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6. Thanks in advance for the link that backs up the 80% figure. n/t
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brainpan Donating Member (18 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 12:17 AM
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7. uh, what about the Bible?
I dont see why any religious text should be supplied to POW's, no matter which side is involved.
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 11:43 AM
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8. Hi brainpan!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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brainpan Donating Member (18 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-25-05 11:47 PM
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9. OK
Hey, thanks a lot. Ill remember to spread the love.
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lebkuchen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 12:13 AM
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4. Remember Cheney's comments shortly after 9-11
about the horrible evil underworld of people the US would be dealing with? He sure wasn't talking up prisoner provisions then. He was hinting at the need to torture to get whatever the Bushies wanted from the detainees, and suggesting that the American public should want nothing less.
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Neshanic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-25-05 11:56 PM
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10. "The Love Gulag", who plays the bartender?
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