I'm sorry, but is this photo supposed to ENRAGE me?

[Clio the Leo]

Or scare me in some way?



The MSM keeps flashing it up on the screen ....... OH NO!!! "terrorists eating ice cream while you're stuck behind a desk! You cant even afford ice cream!!! That's not fair!!!"

Oh come off of it!!! These men have been held in a prison camp for years, they are now FREE MEN .... let them get samples of ALL the 31 flavors if they want! They want sprinkles? Give them an extra portion!!! And DONT forget the cherry!!!!! .... I dont care if we pay for them to live in "an island paradise" for the rest of their lives! ALL victims of injustice should be treated so well. They seem like nice guys, but I dont have room for them in my house and I dont hear anyone else volunteering to take them (Hush Rachel!) So SHUT UP!!!!

~ end rant ~

I dont get it. ....... I guess this is why I'm a bleeding heart liberal?

[liberal N proud]

1. All I see is one guy eating ice cream another holding his while the 3rd is waiting for his.

Am I looking at things to simply?

[Clio the Leo]

9. Oh but apparently it gets worse........

.... they went to the beach!!!



"How could they! Most Americans dont even live near a beach!! It's not fair!!!" ......... PALEEZE!!!!!!!

lol and check out the t-shirt their Bermudan ... um, chaperone, is wearing. I thought for a second he was one of the detainees ... now THAT would have been funny. Former Gitmo prisoners strolling on the beach, while eating ice cream, and wearing Obama t-shirts.

[Cha]

25. Wearing an Obama T-Shirt..there's

your answer right there!

I read your OP caption before and I thought it said.."is this pic suppose to engage me":P

I get it now.. Call me crazed, but I'm so happy for these dudes!

[elleng]

38. So am I, Cha!

:bounce: :bounce:

"We always dreamed of living in peace and working in free society like this one. Today you have let freedom ring," said a statement from one of the men, Abdul Nasser.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/06/11/2009-06-11_4_chinese_muslim_guantanamo_detainees_resettled_in_bermuda.html#ixzz0IZdDD0Ov&D

[MadMaddie]

30. The Obama t-shirt is what is pissing the right off!

[xchrom]

2. are these the uighers in palau?

i haven't seen this pic before -- so i don't know anything about it.

[Clio the Leo]

11. They're in Bermuda.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/06/11/2009-06-11_4_chinese_muslim_guantanamo_detainees_resettled_in_bermuda.html

[Recursion]

20. Funny, they don't look uigherish

Seriously, they don't.

[starroute]

56. Uighers can look like almost anything

Central Asia is one of the most ethnically diverse places in the world. The earliest people in what is now the easternmost part of China spoke an Indo-European language (Tokharian) and presumably had started out in the vicinity of Armenia. Later on, people of more Chinese ethnicity moved in. The present-day Uighurs are a mixture of those various stocks and can look western or eastern or can't-quite-put-your-finger-on-it.

[MadMaddie]

31. Yes!

[YOY]

3. Is that the "Allah Snackbar"?

Oh that was wrong of me...but I cannot resist a bad pun.

and no it doesn't scare or bother me either.

[Aloha Spirit]

6. lol

[elleng]

40. No!

Allah AKbar!

[YOY]

49. Of course it REALLY is. It was a pun...

As I stated in my post...a bad pun.

[elleng]

50. Not so bad, YOY!

You in DC? I'm in MD (SS.)

[YOY]

51. Work in DC...Union Station.

Live in Arlington, VA. THe south part not the "yuppie 20 somthings wearing brown flip flops for no reason" part.

I used to live in Tacoma Park. Nice place. That was a few years ago...it was expensive even then.

I like SS...it's got enough diversity to be a cool place and enough places to chill out to escape the urban madness.

[Sabriel]

4. How DARE they order vanilla?

Can't they go for something a little more terroristic? Like Ambush Apricot?

How about Bioweapon Blueberry? Or Rocky Road Bomb?

[Clio the Leo]

13. "Rocky Road Bomb" ........ yum! NT

[windbreeze]

36. Personally....I'd have to opt for Ambush Apricot...n/t

[Billy Burnett]

5. The Iraqi pilots who flew the planes into the WTC were eating ice cream too.

Note the hidden signal they are giving in the pics?... no sprinkles.

[Orangepeel]

7. No. It's supposed to convince you that Gitmo wasn't so bad.

Yeah they had to spend 7 years in solitary confinement for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, but now they get ice cream in Bermuda!

[Clio the Leo]

14. But they got free clothes all those years? Now they get ice cream!

Oh the inhumanity!!! :)

[4lbs]

8. OMG!!!1111!!!! Ben and Jerry's and Baskin-Robbins support turrirists!!!!111!!!

.

[rasputin1952]

10. I think they want us to believe the bell is actually a detonator...

:eyes:

I could go for some Rocky Road right about now myself...:P

[Sydnie]

12. Would they have denied McCain some ice cream after his release?

Idiots. We should be offering them more than a swim in the ocean and a double scoop cone, shouldn't we?

[Clio the Leo]

15. Well I know one thing....

... I'm about to Google "Bermuda" and "hookers."

'cause these men are probably hankering for more than ice cream.

[rug]

16. There's still some justice, no sprinkles.

[cwydro]

17. They don't look like they've missed any meals actually.

[Clio the Leo]

21. I thought the same thing.

But the flip side of that is that their bruises have healed.

Well, the physical ones anyway.

[cwydro]

23. Point taken.

Anyway, now I want some ice cream...

[Warren Stupidity]

47. As far as I know we did not starve anyone as part of our torture regime.

In fact, quite the opposite, we force fed those who went on hunger strikes.

[nichomachus]

53. Being fed crap food can make you put on weight

Which is why some poor people are overweight. They end up eating what they can afford, which isn't always the best thing to eat. Also, a lack of exercise will do it. When you're held in a cage 24 hours a day, you really don't get much exercise.

[cali]

18. Not the impression I've gotten. The coverage I've seen has been sympathetic.

[KansDem]

19. It scares the Hell out of me!

All that fat, cholesterol, sugar, and corn syrup! :scared:

But, I hope they enjoy it! :D

[jenmito]

22. Some guy from Bermuda (an official) called into MSNBC yesterday and said at FIRST

people were angry/scared, but the "tide is turning" and many citizens accept them now. I guess they just see guys eating ice cream and not the scary "killers" the RWers try to make them out to be.

[WonderGrunion]

24. They were freed without charges

That makes them non-terrorists in my book. They've even said some damn nice things about the US after their 7 year detention. That's a degree of magnanimity I don't believe I have in me.

[elleng]

41. U.S. concluded they were not terrorists years ago;

couldn't find place for them. VERY magnanimous! HAPPY to NOT be returned to China, from which they had fled, and ended up in Pakistan, thence to Gitmo.

[Phx_Dem]

26. OMG. Those guys are scary looking!

Not. I'm sure this picture enrages the GOP because it shows these men as humans, not monsters.

And, they're obviously not terrorists or they wouldn't have been released, so it's nice to see them enjoy the simple pleasures of life after being imprisoned for years.

[lunatica]

27. This is the only positive thing that has come out of Guantanamo ever

At least some of the prisoners will live in nice places among friendly and peaceful people. It's almost poetic. And they have each others company. The guy going to Palau is alone but I'm sure the people will accept him warmly.

[Clio the Leo]

28. I've got your poetry right here.......

Former Guantanamo detainee Salahidin Abdulahat takes a swim in the Atlantic ocean off the shore near Hamilton, Bermuda, Sunday, June 14, 2009. Abdulahat is among four Chinese ethnic Uighurs who have just been released from U.S. military custody after years in Guantanamo, and are being resettled in Bermuda.

[lunatica]

29. That's a great shot!

I hope they relish their freedom and that they find happiness in their new home.

[MadMaddie]

32. I read a story that they have never seen the Ocean

and to swim in it was amazing to them.

These men are very thankful to their new community. China would have killed them upon their return.

[xchrom]

33. poetry indeed. nt

[elleng]

42. More poetry!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/15/world/americas/15uighur.html?hp

Can't stop smiling!

[vaberella]

34. They were innocent...I don't see the big deal. n/t

[Brigid]

35. All I see . . .

Is three rather ugly guys eating ice cream. Big deal. :shrug:

[elleng]

37. Seeing these guys ENJOYING themselves,

in BERMUDA, makes me SO happy!

:-)

[merh]

39. Shit, you can't give them enough ice cream to make up for 7 years

of illegal detention and abuse.

MSM is made up of a bunch of idiots.

[havocmom]

43. When I first heard about this, immediate thought: Hope they aren't lactose intolerant

Dunno why, but that was my big concern.

[Hissyspit]

44. If the MSM does not mentioned the men's innocence each time the show the photos

then they are guilty of journalistically corrupt propaganda.

[baldguy]

45. Thats four.

Just about 200? to go

[Warren Stupidity]

46. These are the men we held for almost eight years

in a torture chamber for absolutely no reason at all? Have they contacted lawyers? They should be able, each and every one of them, to provide ice cream 'on the house' for all of Bermuda for the rest of their lives.

[Dude_CalmDown]

48. I like how the Google Ad at the bottom is for Ice Cream.

No idea why but it cracks me up a bit.

[Bucky]

52. First they came for our ice cream, but I wasn't ice cream, so I didn't speak up.

[Flying Dream Blues]

54. LOL! nt

[grantcart]

55. They will get my cone when they rip it from my cold ice cream stained sticky fingers