Comments on: Boehner’s Alternate Reality: Gitmo Detainees Get ‘More Comforts Than A Lot Of Americans Get’

By: jurassicpork

jurassicpork — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:44:24 +0000

Considering 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.

By: Hesperion

Hesperion — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:47:02 +0000

Guantanamo 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.

By: EugeneDebs

EugeneDebs — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:07:18 +0000

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.

By: lvdragonlady

lvdragonlady — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:48:48 +0000

For 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!
If 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.

By: greggp

greggp — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:20:00 +0000

Look 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.

By: ctcadguy

ctcadguy — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:14:15 +0000

Silly fascists – let us all call them out!

Expose them for what they are – ignorant, easily maniopulated by hate – 21st century Nazis – no difference!

By: pbg

pbg — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:03:32 +0000

I 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.
Guantanamo 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.

By: markusmarkus

markusmarkus — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:05:40 +0000

Boehner 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.

By: CageyCretin

CageyCretin — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:25:10 +0000

The 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).

By: Ape-Man

Ape-Man — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:59:09 +0000

Doesn’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.

By: Robt

Robt — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:39:07 +0000

And 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.

By: MapleStreet

MapleStreet — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:15:59 +0000

Let 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.

By: MapleStreet

MapleStreet — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:14:29 +0000

More comforts than some american citizens get.

Not quite a shining endorsement of how we treat our citizens.

By: Bilbo Hussein Baggins

Bilbo Hussein Baggins — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:02:46 +0000

Bozo 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.

By: Bilbo Hussein Baggins

Bilbo Hussein Baggins — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:52:13 +0000

Fitting 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.

By: winddancer

winddancer — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:49:42 +0000

I 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.

By: 1984

1984 — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:52:21 +0000

Even if that were true (its not, gitmo is not a good place) then does it not speak poorly about the American health care system?

By: marlow

marlow — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:31:04 +0000

So 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.

By: Tired of being lied to

Tired of being lied to — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:49:41 +0000

Make that man a reservation and buy him a plane ticket.

You’re going to Gitmo!

By: Constant Weader

Constant Weader — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:22:32 +0000

Boehner 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