Boehner’s Alternate Reality: Gitmo Detainees Get ‘More Comforts Than A Lot Of Americans Get’
Boehner’s Alternate Reality: Gitmo Detainees Get ‘More Comforts Than A Lot Of Americans Get’
Earlier today, President Obama signed an executive order directing the closure of the U.S. military prison at Gitmo. Asked during a news conference for his reaction to the order, House Minority Leader John Boehner made it clear that he wasn’t even sure why anyone would want to close the prison in the first place. After all, he explained, the detainees there get “more comforts than a lot of Americans get”:
QUESTION: A lot of members of Congress on both sides of the aisle say that Guantanamo Bay has just given the United States a black eye on the world stage. Isn’t that part of the problem, too? [...]
BOEHNER: I don’t know that there’s a terrorist treated better anywhere in the world than what has happened at Guantanamo. It is — we have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build a facility that has more comforts than a lot of Americans get.
Boehner has not been paying attention. Just last week, Susan Crawford, the top Bush administration official in charge of deciding whether to prosecute Gitmo detainees, revealed that she had concluded that Mohammed al-Qahtani was tortured by the U.S. military and consequently could not be prosecuted. As the Washington Post reported:
“For 160 days his only contact was with the interrogators,” said Crawford, who personally reviewed Qahtani’s interrogation records and other military documents. … Qahtani “was forced to wear a woman’s bra and had a thong placed on his head during the course of his interrogation” and “was told that his mother and sister were whores.” With a leash tied to his chains, he was led around the room “and forced to perform a series of dog tricks,” the report shows.
The Post also reported that al-Qahtani’s treatment was so extreme he had to be hospitalized twice and at one point his heart rate dropped to 35 beats per minute. In 2007, an FBI report found that detainees “were chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor for 18 hours or more, urinating and defecating on themselves.” Similarly, in 2004, the Red Cross reported “cruel, inhumane and degrading” treatment which was approaching “torture.”
Boehner’s conception of a Club Med-style prison camp at Gitmo is pure fantasy. He should spend less time listening to Rush Limbaugh and more time focusing on the actual realities of detainee treatment and abuse.
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– - Actually, the rest of that statement was edited out. It read, “…due to Republican economic, social and legal policies of the last 8 years.”
January 22nd, 2009 at 3:43 pmGood lord. The Boner is truly delusional, ain’t he??
January 22nd, 2009 at 3:46 pmLOL! OMG! These guys are certifibly nuts. How do these sub-humans get elected? The righties are going nuts. Limpballs, Hannity, Malkin… They are freaking out. Kind of sad. (Not!)
January 22nd, 2009 at 3:48 pm‘More Comforts Than A Lot Of Americans Get’
Well, they don’t have sit and listen to my wife talk about car sales for 6 hours straight every night…now that’s torture.
January 22nd, 2009 at 3:49 pmAnother little GOP temper tantrum *sigh*
January 22nd, 2009 at 3:50 pmThe Post also reported that al-Qahtani’s treatment was so extreme he had to be hospitalized twice
See… he was hospitalized, TWICE. Most American’s could NEVER afford that!
/snark
Jerk.
January 22nd, 2009 at 3:51 pmBoehner’s an idiot.
He’s got no more chimpy checks to give out on the floor of the house and he’s feels lonely…
If he keeps this up like Cornyn in the Senate, both will soon get the message: Chimpy isn’t in charge anymore. You’re not in charge anymore. Sit down and shut up before you get squashed like the bug you are..!!!
January 22nd, 2009 at 3:51 pmSweeeeet… Stay classy, Republicans. We’ll see ya in 2010.
I’m not sure whether he’s being completely delusional or just really doesn’t care about how bad things are for “a lot of Americans.” Or some of both. Either way, I’ll take it.
January 22nd, 2009 at 3:51 pmThis guy is a JOKE!!!
Someone other than Stewart should point this out!!!
January 22nd, 2009 at 3:51 pmWinski Says:
If he keeps this up like Cornyn in the Senate, both will soon get the message: Chimpy isn’t in charge anymore. You’re not in charge anymore.
You know, when they were the majority party and this stuff got passed on uncritically, most people I knew just shrugged in despair, like “it sucks but nobody can do anything about it.” They don’t have that cover of the illusion of invulnerability any more. Making ridiculous statements actually hurts them more, now.
I hope they never stop.
January 22nd, 2009 at 3:53 pmHe’s just drunk again.
January 22nd, 2009 at 3:54 pmYes, I was just thinking the other day as I was kneeling on the ground, my hands cuffed behind my back and a hood over my head, trained attack dog patroling unseen, that those guys at Gitmo have it so much better than so many like me here in America. At least those guys get to wear those sunny, upbeat orange jumpsuits.
Boner the Limp.
PEACE
January 22nd, 2009 at 3:55 pmrddaos Says:
Flagged.
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:00 pmPoor Dynamo,
It is still trying to battle Obama. Kinda like the salmon swimming upstream without a tailfin.
But it will be OK, you will still be better off in a year than you were over the past 8.
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:01 pmcoming from a man who cried like a little beyotch on the floor of the house?
yeah, that stunt instill a lot of confidence in what this clown has to say.
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:01 pmBoehner should be in a tanning bed someplace far from any microphones.
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:02 pmMaybe someone should book a reservation at Gitmo for Dynamo and Boehner. They can then report back to us on the “Comforts” available only to detaniees there.
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:04 pmBOEHNER: (snif) I(snif) don’t(snif) know(snif) that(snif) there’s (snif)a(snif) terrorist(snif) treated(snif) better (snif)anywhere(snif) in(snif) the(snif) world(snif) than(snif) what(snif) has(snif) happened(snif) at(snif) Guantanamo(snif). I(snif)t is(snif) — we(snif) have(snif) spent(snif) hundreds(snif) of(snif) millions(snif) of(snif) dollars(snif) to(snif) build(snif) a(snif) facility(snif) that(snif) has(snif) more(snif) comforts(snif) than(snif) a(snif) lot(snif) of(snif) Americans(snif) get(snif).
There I fixed it.
This is a necessary step to live up to what WE stand for a$$Hole, the rule of law.
STFU you idiot.
RIP
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:05 pmSGT Stepehen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
rddaos:
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:06 pmwant to tell us again how obvious it is that torture works?
What does it say… when the living conditions in jail are better then a portion of your populations living conditions????? What a joke!!!
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:09 pmJohn “Bawlin John” Boehner is whack.
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:09 pmI would love to see another congressman say, “sit down, shaddup you crybaby beyotch…may we remind you you’re in the minority for a reason”
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:09 pmFocusing on the salacious bra and panty aspects does not really do justice to the reality of our treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and other prisons. Those antics are reprehensible and show the general lack of discipline which extended from the Commander-in-Chief all the way down to Specialist England. Inmates in United States custody have been tortured to death, permanently injured, or become psychologically deranged all in some cases without any evidence of wrongdoing. This is a national tragedy and sunlight must be shined on these abuses.
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:10 pmThe fact is if Bush had his way completely, most of us in the US would be treated the same way as the detainees. I am an adult, so you will notice I have not made fun of this mans name. Let’s see, Bowler, Bofer, Bonor, Bonar. Oh Well!
As long as there are cameras and someone stupid enough to interview these Republican morons, they will speak. They will speak when common sense should say to them, “shut the hell up before people realize how stupid and shallow you really are.”
Sorry about that run on sentence.
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:10 pmwe have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build a facility that has more comforts than a lot of Americans get.
Well, Mr. Boehner, maybe you’ll like to spend a couple of weeks enjoying the treatment and those comforts at Guantanamo that a lot of Americas don’t get.
What an idiot Boehner is…
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:10 pmWhen Boehner goes so far as to retire there, I’ll believe him. Until then, he’s just another wingnut torture apologist who’s full of crap.
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:11 pmWell said “tired of Fighting”. You hit the nail on the head!!!
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:12 pmGood to see the Repug Leadership is upholding their behavior and childish antics of the past 8 years.
Will make it SOOO much easier for them to maintain that minority status over the next 8 years.
Heh heh
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:13 pm“…we have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build a facility that has more comforts than a lot of Americans get.”
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And that’s another thing, john — why are there “lots of Americans” who are worse off than our prisoners? And why are you always so against spending anything on them?
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:13 pmDid I read a report somewhere that says that self-tanner destroys brain cells…?
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:14 pmNOLIESPLEASE Says:
Thanks (snif).
RIP
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:17 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
misshusseinmolly Says:
And that’s another thing, john — why are there “lots of Americans” who are worse off than our prisoners? And why are you always so against spending anything on them?
Bingo. If there are lots of Americans worse off than these prisoners, people like Boner share a huge amount of responsibility for perpetuating their condition. But he doesn’t care about those Americans any more than he cares about the internees.
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:17 pmMight I suggest the what most are missing, that from time to time the public finds out that memebers of Congres might be paying money to have a “women or some strong man dressed as a Marine tie me up, urinate on me, and make me wear women’s clothing, and shout at me etc etc etc”
So it is perfectly logical some in DC and perhaps some posters might not find the treatment down at GITMO all that bad.. and there is the ref to “Better them some in USA” etc. But being a kindly sort, I will let your own ideas dance about the motive of that one. So it seems some might actually be jealous of such treatments, or at least at their level of such things.. more so if they pay for it and from what has been out there.. such things do happen,,, sometimes more, sometimes less, even at airports?
So be kind, as it may be envy no more then upset that some gettin for free what some pay for..Kind of a GITMO welfare program for the kinky in their eyes..and other body parts.
But then we all know that of course those we elected are above such.. if it their turn on top?
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:18 pmMay be Boehner can recommend Gito to his friends and relatives as a nice place to spend their time. !
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:18 pmBOEHNER: “I don’t know that there’s a terrorist treated better anywhere in the world than what has happened at Guantanamo.”
an on the ball reporter would have asked, “what ever happened to innocent until proven guilty? have any of the detainees you are speaking of been convicted of any crime”?
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:20 pmBoehner has not been paying attention.
He’s not the only one. He has Republican colleagues who think he’s absolutely right. He even has some fans posting here.
Should I pity them because they’re ignorant of the truth? Or should I pity them because they are incredibly stupid?
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:22 pmBOEHNER: I don’t know that there’s a terrorist treated better anywhere in the world than what has happened at Guantanamo.
Boy, I don’t know about that, lil’ Johnny. Bush and Cheney got treated pretty well by you Republiclowns, didn’t they?
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:23 pmOT – good question from randi…
is there a statute of limitations involved in the gonzoles crimes? say this march, which would be a good reason to keep the holder nomination in limbo…
that hospital visit to ashcroft is on record – that’s when the lid blew off the spying… and specter is part of that…
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:23 pmlet’s face it, the reason the repukes are sticking to their story is if dummya and company got up on war crime charges it will be the end of their meal ticket. the rethuglican party will essentially be disassembled
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:33 pmBoehner: “It is — we have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build a facility that has more comforts than a lot of Americans get.”
Yikesee.. What’s wrong with this picture….
Oh, wait, maybe he’s confusing Guantanamo with the new US Embassy in Baghdad….
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:33 pmBoner is the e-pit-o-me of whats wrong with the republican party. I’m surprised they still let him speak. Who likes this guy? I mean really, who likes him? Who votes for him? What is there that is “good” about this man?
Boner was born 50 years too late. No doubt he would have been a loyal, devoted Nazi party member were he graced with the opportunity of being born into a world and a country where ideals like his flourished. And I’m not kidding here. Some may think this sort of comparison over the top but unfortunately its not. Our fathers fought his kind in WWII, but they keep coming back.
Well President Obama clearly isn’t going to put up with this nonsense. Its over. America is going to be America again in spite of what vile men like Boner have to say.
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:35 pmtfalls Says: “But being a kindly sort, I will let your own ideas dance about the motive of that one.etc…..
Thanks, but no thanks, it seems you are the one with all the “ideas”…
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:37 pmLOL
Boner is a cry-baby troll. Boner is simply trying yet again to change the subject! Ignore him.
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:38 pmI think TP hit the nail on the head: the GOP is currently being lead & is headed by Rush Limbaugh & Sean Hannity.
Hence, this is why you see these very strange antics like opposing Holder, delaying Clinton and these ridiculous statements.
But isn’t it fun to watch these old Repugs implode before our very eyes?????
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:39 pmNothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King Jr
RIP
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:39 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN(STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
Thanks for nothing Cincinnatti.
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:41 pmOf course some parts of Cinci are pure torture.
tony andlido
It is — we have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build a facility that has more comforts than a lot of Americans get.
He has just issued a pretty sad commentary on the state of the American people after 8 years of Republican rule.
And, tragically, he may be right.
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:41 pmThis repugnican bozo is making the usual FALSE assumptions;
1- that all of the detainees ARE terrorists
2- that Americans are selfish, narrow-minded idiots
3- that anyone with any sense listens or cares
about what the haters have to say
The time to manipulate through hate and fear has passed !!
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:41 pmGet out of the way repugnicans !
Random crying is a sure-fire sign of depression. Perhaps if Boner gets on some meds, more than just the crying would be stopped ( like crackpot ideas and views of the world).
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:47 pmWell perhaps we should keep Gitmo open to allow two of the worlds biggest terrorists,George W. Bush and Dick Cheney to enjoy it’s ambiance for the rest of their lives.
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:47 pm“It is — we have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build a facility that has more comforts than a lot of Americans get.”
And to think that that money could have been wasted building temporary shelter and feeding thousands of Americans each day.
Pinch me, I still can’t believe the GOP era is over.
PEACE
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:48 pmkaty Says:
OT – good question from randi…
is there a statute of limitations involved in the gonzoles crimes? say this march, which would be a good reason to keep the holder nomination in limbo…
that hospital visit to ashcroft is on record – that’s when the lid blew off the spying… and specter is part of that…
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:23 pm
That’s an excellent question. The problem is that in order to answer it, we have to know the truth about what happened. Only when we know what crimes were committed will we be able to see if they are still prosecutable. If it turns out that there were crimes committed (hardly an “if”) but that the statute of limitations ran out, then we need to amend the law to extend or eliminate the statute of limitations where federal officials are concerned. There is no excuse for letting a corrupt federal official go free because they managed to stall for three or four years and prevent us from learning that they even committed a crime.
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:49 pmThere is a MAGIC WORD that is Used by Tyrants and Despots Worldwide, to dismiss any criticism of their Human Rights Abuses from our American Diplomats….
GUANTANAMO
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:49 pmThe conditions of confinement could include 3 15 course meals a day, prepared by a French trained chef, served on fine china to the purported “enemy combatants” held in gold encrusted cells, with diamond locks and emerald toilets which flush with finely scented perfumes . . . that still would not take away the following: every person there has been there for years, all but a handful have never been charged with anything, and if Boehner and his crew continue to get their way) will be held there indefinitely without ever being charged. This though everyone (but Cheney apparently) KNOWS that many people held there are not and were not ever “the worst of the worst.” That’s why so many have been released.
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:49 pmTo me, the worst part is that the very fact he says this shows a belief that there are the 20%-ers out there who believe him and will repeat this as fact.
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:50 pmDynamo Says:
Dynamo to spend all day on-line and can’t promise to make one sensible point?
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:52 pmI dunno about two things said above.
First, I disagree — I think we should ENCOURAGE repubs like this to keep flapping their yaps. The more they say shit like this and the more Obama looks smooth as silk, the repubs are going to immoliate (sic?) themselves. Good.
Second, I do NOT feel sorry for the stupid people that continue to throw their few, dwindling dollars at these repub idiots. Let them throw their money away…some day when the repubs are a burning heap of shit, these stupid people will have no more money to fund stupid politicians and religous cranks. Good.
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:55 pmhey draino concern troll:
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:56 pmwhere were you when the repukes handed over 700 BILLION to bankers which promptly disappeared?
As an Ohioan I am embarrassed by John Boehner. These dumb-ass Republicans speak the damndest thoughts. If he thinks they live so good in prison why doesn’t he take his dumb ass down there and live. They just lie, right to your face, tell you any damn thing. And even today, after the American people are so fed up with their brand of bullshit tht they turned the entire political authority over to the Democrats, these idiots just keep doing the ame damn thing. Idiots! The President was correct in chatising them for acting like children. WHo in the hell does Boehner think really agrees with the ridiculous words that he spoke today. He is triple-timed too stupid to be allowed out during daylight hours!
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:58 pmHey dymano, The Bush years produced the lowest number of jobs, and the lowest paying jobs, since the depression.
January 22nd, 2009 at 5:00 pmThe average income shrank 2%. Got anything else, genius?
Poor Dynomutt. No point to made.
January 22nd, 2009 at 5:00 pmdhampton100 Says:
these idiots just keep doing the ame damn thing.
hampton — sshhhhhhh…..keep this a secret – don’t tell them to change. Hell…encourage them NOT to change!
January 22nd, 2009 at 5:04 pmBOEHNER: I don’t know that there’s a terrorist treated better anywhere in the world than what has happened at Guantanamo. It is — we have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build a facility that has more comforts than a lot of Americans get.
Boehner is a nutcase! This man is a demon in the flesh!
January 22nd, 2009 at 5:04 pmI can not believe the stream of nonsense flowing from his mouth!
Just like Lush Rimjob, let Boner and the likes of them just keep on whining… This will make President Obama much more insightful and give him more leeway to bring about change sooner rather than later…
January 22nd, 2009 at 5:08 pmConservatism. n. The incessant repetition of that which is not true.
January 22nd, 2009 at 5:08 pmWe know that a lot of those poor souls were sold off the street for a bounty and didn’t have anything to do with resistance, much less terrorism. But saying we have all these “terrorists” in Gitmo supports the we kept America safe (since 9/11) narrative. I think that’s what the Republican party has to protect. Lie that it is, it’s really all they’ve got. “The Surge” is only cache for the True Believers who praise anything they’re told is a “success” without question.
January 22nd, 2009 at 5:08 pmI guess Boner is jealous because the Gitmo detainees have a better tanning bed…?
January 22nd, 2009 at 5:08 pmKit Bond is on Hardball making the usual false argument that the people in GTMO are the toughest terrorists, and what do we do with them? Problem is, we have only Bush’s word that they are this bad. Bond is treating them like they are already proven convicted criminals, when no such thing as been established.
Now he’s claiming that if we move the terrosists into our US prison system, that they’ll recruit new terrorists. It’s hard to argue with such delusional people.
Now he’s claiming that the Army Field Manual is known by “every single one” of the terrosists that the CIA picks up, and they know how to defeat those methods. He is also claiming that Obama should keep the interrogation methods “approved by Bush”. Apparently he is unaware that Bush committed War Crimes with those interrogation techniques.
“No one wants to follow rules approved by the President and the Attorney General”. (He’s getting really delusional now.)
He’s also claiming we shouldn’t investigate Bush because “we don’t go back and look into Clinton.” Hey, Bond, you wad, Clinton didn’t commit War Crimes!
TP, you might want to get ready to put up this idiot’s appearance, happening right now on hardball.
January 22nd, 2009 at 5:10 pmI never even knew that having electrodes attached to ones genitals with 400 watts flowing was a comfort!
January 22nd, 2009 at 5:12 pmBoehner sees no problem with the children who were tortured by the US. Well that speaks for itself. Innocent people were kidnapped, held without charges and tortured. 7 detainees were tortured so much their declaired mentally insane. Yes we just love the Republican Christian Values.
January 22nd, 2009 at 5:19 pmI guess Viagra isn’t enough for those old, drunk Republicans.
January 22nd, 2009 at 5:20 pmBoehner:
January 22nd, 2009 at 5:27 pm” I was thinking of spending my next vacation there at Gitmo seeking comfort, but sadly they do not have yet a golf course built down there at Gitmo for me to play on”..!!
Of course the prisoners at Gitmo are treated better than some Americans. We still don’y know if Bush used his super presidential powers to have American citizens rendered to Eastern European countries where the “black” prision camps are.
Boehner knows all about them.
January 22nd, 2009 at 5:28 pmAs long as the Republican Party continues to ignore reality, they are doomed to stay in the minority for a very long time. If Obama continues to be as productive as he is now throughout his presidency and doesn’t make any serious mistakes, the Republicans will eventually be a forgotten memory. :)
January 22nd, 2009 at 5:38 pmIs Boner drinking more than he usually does these days? The guy sounds a little balmy.
January 22nd, 2009 at 5:40 pm“Boehner’s Alternate Reality: Gitmo Detainees Get ‘More Comforts Than A Lot Of Americans Get’”
Boner is an absolute idiot. Send Boner to Gitmo for 90 days with a one way plane trip only to stay without his tanning salon.
January 22nd, 2009 at 5:55 pmBoehner’s conception of a Club Med-style prison camp at Gitmo is pure fantasy. He should spend less time listening to Rush Limbaugh and more time focusing on the actual realities of detainee treatment and abuse.
He should spend more time “chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor for 18 hours or more, urinating and defecating on [himself]” … rather than pissing his pants in public on the taxpayer’s dime.
Cheers,
January 22nd, 2009 at 6:00 pmQahtani “was forced to wear a woman’s bra and had a thong placed on his head during the course of his interrogation” and “was told that his mother and sister were whores.”
David Vitter paid thousands of dollars for that kind of treatment.
“al-Qahtani’s treatment was so extreme he had to be hospitalized twice”
Millions of Americans have no health insurance at all.
Gee, I guess Boner is telling the truth.
January 22nd, 2009 at 6:12 pmBoehner: no-boner, no-brainer. Does he have some Germanic blood in him? He sounds like he would have loved the German Nazis if he had been alive in the 1930s…
We should let all of the prisoners that remain in Prison Gitmo go free, with credit for time served. Haven’t they been tortured enough? The only problem that we had with the Taliban regime in the time of Clinton and bush 2 was that they wouldn’t let our oil companies build pipelines across their territory. I guess in the mindset of the neo-cons like Bush 2 and liberal imperialists like Obama, that maekes them “terrorists.”
We (USA) have been terrorizing the residents of many third world countries for over a century now. Since 1898 in the Philippine Islands, when we murdered hundreds of thousands of residents there to enforce our imperial will.
January 22nd, 2009 at 6:13 pmI get the distinct feeling that there’s a laptop full of kiddie porn in Boner’s future. Or a box full of snuff films.
January 22nd, 2009 at 6:19 pmSomeday I hope this fugitive from a tanning bed gets to enjoy all the comforts of prison too.
January 22nd, 2009 at 6:29 pmBoehner – Just STFU, your party was our downfall, the American people have spoken, they want you to STFU!
January 22nd, 2009 at 7:08 pmBoehner should take serious heat for his remarks. Contrary to the evidence, he’s not Glenn Beck who can just shoot Firt Amendment swill — he’s an important elected official who has a responsibility to be truthful to the American people. If there are Americans who suffer less comfort than the Gitmo prisoners do, I want Boehner to point them out & explain why he isn’t moving heaven & earth to help them.
The Constant Weader at http://www.RealityChex.com
January 22nd, 2009 at 7:22 pmMake that man a reservation and buy him a plane ticket.
You’re going to Gitmo!
January 22nd, 2009 at 7:49 pmSo that was the Republican plan? To swaddle the “worst of the worst” in comfort and luxury? Why not just have checked them into a Hyatt somewhere? Makes about as much sense as anything else these chuckleheads did the past eight years. At any rate, I don’t really pay much attention to Boner, unless of course he’s puling like a baby. Then I know it’s REALLY important.
January 22nd, 2009 at 8:31 pmEven if that were true (its not, gitmo is not a good place) then does it not speak poorly about the American health care system?
January 22nd, 2009 at 8:52 pmI would honestly like people like Boener (long list!) to spend even one week in Gitmo, under the conditions that exist there, and treated like suspected terrorists. Deprived of sleep, solitary confinement, ice cold rooms, etc. Just one week. Hell, a day or two and they’d probably come out insane. Close to it anyway.
January 22nd, 2009 at 9:49 pmFitting justice would be to kidnap Boner, render him and then hold him captive at a undisclosed location for 6 years without charges. But be sure to feed him lemon chicken so he will appreciate his captivity.
January 22nd, 2009 at 10:52 pmBozo The Neoclown Says:
hey draino concern troll:
where were you when the repukes handed over 700 BILLION to bankers which promptly disappeared?
One thinks you are a little confused. The Republicans only gave away 350 billion. The other 350 billion will be handled in a more open and professional manner by Obama. This money will go to help main street rather than wall street.
January 22nd, 2009 at 11:02 pmMore comforts than some american citizens get.
Not quite a shining endorsement of how we treat our citizens.
January 22nd, 2009 at 11:14 pmLet us raise the bar:
I propose that Boehner AND HIS FAMILY including kids, grandkids, etc. take a trip to Gitmo for at least a year.
While there, be subject to the techniques of the Bush Cabal.
They could have family “swimming lessons” as they go around the room and waterboard them one by one.
January 22nd, 2009 at 11:15 pmAnd right wingers like Boehner made it possible.
Does Boehner want to send Americans to Gitmo to make things better?
Now he knows quite well that Americans will never see the actual (real)day to day treatment in Gitmo.
January 23rd, 2009 at 3:39 amDoesn’t boner know the conditions at Gitmo are now of little concern? Maybe conditions are great, that’s nice, whatever. He should be in there helping to sort out the innocent from the guilty before more time is lost. We’re only talking about a couple hundred innocent people maybe, that could be freed to wherever on some kind of parole.
January 23rd, 2009 at 3:59 amThe republican “Gitmo is great” mindset assumes, always, that every person in there is “the worst of the worst” — because Bush and Cheney SAID so. That makes the issue easier for them to think about: it is acceptable to them because they assume guilt of every person detained there.
While boner’s assessment (and not just his — we have heard this cannard before — wasn’t Cheney touting this line a few years back?) is a less than ringing endorsement of the state of American citizens, isn’t this also complete hypocricy? I thought the important thing was that we don’t “serve them cookies and milk”, and that harsh methods are necessary.
But according to Boner (and many others who have argued this “Gitmo has great treatment” angle), isn’t that exactly what he is trying to paint this as? That, gee, these poor brown people from countries worse off than us being detained at Gitmo, and who are the worst terrorists in the world, are being treated like American royalty while in their captivity, at the American taxpayer’s expense.
So — which is it? Are they treated with “cookies and milk” or are they being treated harshly like the republicans believe they deserve? because the “cookies and milk” approach does not require the Gitmo facility. The torture approach does. And torture trumps cookies and milk (so, if they are tortured and THEN given cookies and milk — they were still tortured).
January 23rd, 2009 at 7:25 amBoehner supports the coddling of suspected terrorists.
Boehner wants to nationalize ClubMed
Boehner wants to move thousands of hard-working Americans to Gitmo so that can have a better life
Boehner wants to move the detainees currently housed in Gitmo to his home district in Ohio so that his district’s comfort level is increased
Boehner is a blowhard. Period.
January 23rd, 2009 at 9:05 amI have always felt that people in JAIL should be treated well, because they are people awaiting trial. In an actual justice system, people in jail are not considered criminals, because no crime has been proven. They are being detained to prevent flight, and (in the case of violent criminals) against the POSSIBILITY of violence against the public.
January 23rd, 2009 at 10:03 amGuantanamo was not a prison, but a jail. NO ONE AT GUANTANAMO IS A CRIMINAL, because no one has been convicted of a crime in a court of law–and most have not even been tried by the Stalinist show trial kangaroo ‘courts’ set up by the Bush junta.
The fact that anything other than confinement occurs at a jail is a crime in itself.
Silly fascists – let us all call them out!
Expose them for what they are – ignorant, easily maniopulated by hate – 21st century Nazis – no difference!
January 23rd, 2009 at 11:14 amLook on the bright side. One need not have to construe Boehner’s statements as proof he’s either a clueless idiot or a mendacious prevaricator. This can be taken as Boehner’s epiphany: he now supports universal healthcare and nutrition assistance for all Americans.
January 23rd, 2009 at 12:20 pmFor ANYONE out there that thinks that treating detainees like this is ok, you need to get your heads out of your @$$ and think for a change!
January 23rd, 2009 at 1:48 pmIf this kind of treatment was done to one of our guys, all of the neo-con right wing wingnuts would be swinging from the rafters and screaming bloody murder.
We can not do this to others and NOT expect the same treatment to our people.
rddaos Says:
Are morons like YOU ignorant and soulless? Why yes you are. Got any evidence all those at Gitmo are jihadis? Why no you dont. You can show yourself out in disgrace moron.
January 23rd, 2009 at 2:07 pmGuantanamo Bay might be a good solution to housing these Republican War Criminals after the republic is restored and all the war crimes trials are held. Spandau is no more so this might be a good idea.
January 23rd, 2009 at 11:47 pmConsidering how many foreclosures there have been and how far south the economy’s gone, I’d say that Boehner’s not very far off the mark.
January 25th, 2009 at 9:44 am