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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 03:09 PM
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Gitmo Admiral: Detainees pretty much live in a fraternity house


Detainees released from the prison at Guantanamo Bay have complained about inhumane conditions there, but according to the admiral in charge, their living situation is "pretty much" like that in a fraternity house.

Rear Admiral Mark Buzby, who is completing a one-year assignment as the commander of the Joint Task Force Guantanamo recently held a conference call with defense bloggers to discuss the treatment of detainees.

"We're all about the safe and humane care and custody of detained enemy combatants," Buzby began. "We do that safely and we also do it ethically and transparently, and, of course, in strict accordance with the law." He added that Guantanamo is "very much different than what it's portrayed, typically, you know, in popular culture. ... The greatest compliment that I get from visitors is, 'Gosh, I never realized it was so different.'"

Blogger Andrew Lubin asked Buzby about one detainee who claimed "he was put back in solitary confinement for punitive reasons."

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Guantanamo_commander_Were_all_about_safe_0521.html
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Duke Newcombe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 03:10 PM
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1. "Skinny, blindfolded, and waterboarded is no way to go through life, son" -- Bushie McWerner
Duke

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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 04:26 PM
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9. Toga, toga, toga. Smirk." - Gitmo frat boys mimicking Commander AWOL Bush
& cabal of republicon homelander chickenhawk IMprisoners.

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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 03:11 PM
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2. Yes, with the guards doing the hazing on a daily basis.
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 03:11 PM
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3. Trompe de l'ouiel--
At first glace I read that as "the animal in charge."
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 03:13 PM
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4. As a proud retiree of the world's greatest Navy
I am ashamed of the Admiral's description of what goes on in GTMO.
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shain from kane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 03:16 PM
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5. Bullshit. The visitor gets to leave when he wants.
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Maine-i-acs Donating Member (989 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 03:27 PM
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6. Find out what fraternity the Admiral went to, so I can stay the hell away from it.
Rush Limbaugh's fraternity too, while you're at it (he described Abu Ghraib torture as "fraternity Hijinks")
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electropop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 03:39 PM
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7. Constant hazing.
Of the near-fatal (or worse) kind. You know, just hijinx.
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 03:55 PM
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8. Low level security risk Detainees are housed together.
The statement is true to that extent. Of course, the other side of the situation
has been left out.
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electropop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 11:17 AM
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10. I meant "hazing" as a euphemism for interrogations/torture.
Prisoner-on-prisoner violence would of course only make it all worse.
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ensho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 11:28 AM
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11. what? the prisoners get drunk every day?
nt
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