Gitmo has a souvenir shop

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=563791&in_page_id=1811


Greetings from Guantanamo Bay ... and the sickest souvenir shop in the world


The sands are white, the sea laps gently and crowds of bronzed Americans laze in the Caribbean sunshine.

They have a cinema, a golf course and, naturally, a gift shop stocked with mugs, jaunty T-shirts and racks of postcards showing perfect sunsets and bright green iguanas.


Only the barbed wire decoration, a recurring motif, hints at anything wrong.


Welcome to "Taliban Towers" at Guantanamo Bay, the most ghoulishly distasteful tourist destination on the planet.

As these astonishing mementoes show, the US authorities are promoting the world's most notorious prison camp as a cheap hideaway for American sunseekers – a revelation that has drawn international anger and condemnation.


Just yards from the shelves of specially branded mugs and cuddly toys, nearly 300 "enemy combatants" lie sweltering in a waking nightmare.
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there is a picture of a little girl wearing one of the t shirts


at the moment I can't think of any printable words to say about this

[snot]

1. k&r'd. horrifying.

[BattyDem]

2. I don't even know how to respond ... there are no words

:wow:

[emperor124]

3. With 100% of the profits going to the purchase of the latest torture equipment?

[PDJane]

4. I'm sure there are words,

but I can't really think of them just this moment.


What kind of sick, twisted mind sells souvenirs at a place like Guantánamo Bay? Are we to assume that the US is proud of this facility? Perhaps we should fortify our borders to keep the contagion from spreading elsewhere, to keep the criminals in?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Oh, this is so fucking sick!

Who in their right minds thought up such a thing???

Insanity rules...

Just when you think it can't possibly get any worse...

You're wrong!

K&R

x(

[gateley]

6. I just sent a link to a few people in Congress and the Senate.

We always assume they know all of this stuff, but I'm not so sure sometimes.

This is beyond comprehension.

[PDittie]

7. The freepers eat this up

The disparate views of us v. them regarding this news leave me little hope for the future.

[Initech]

8. I got tortured at Gitmo and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.

:nuke:

[jmowreader]

9. An even more revolting thought...

George Bush is America's King Sadim--Midas spelled backwards. And whereas everything King Midas touched turned to gold, everything King Sadim touches turns into shit.

Imagine if King Sadim decided to dump three hundred enemy combatants on the head of the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station's commander, but he let the money to feed them run out. He gets enough money to feed the sailors and Marines under his command, and NO ONE ELSE.

Hence...he may be running this gift shop to raise money to run his camp. Which makes the "bake sale to buy a bomber" line we used to use look real familiar.