How slick and nefarious are the operatives of the torture and assassination branch of Bush/Cheney/HitlerCo? They’ve infiltrated Hugo Chavez’s Venezuelan regime and replaced Miss Universe with an incredibly sexy fembot duplicate. What other explanation is there for her singing from the Bush/Cheney songbook?
A “relaxing, calm, beautiful place” may not be everyone’s description of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the United States holds about 240 prisoners in a detention center that has drawn condemnation from around the world.
But this was the opinion of reigning Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza of Venezuela, who visited the U.S. naval facility in eastern Cuba this month on a trip organized by the United Service Organizations (USO) which supports U.S. troops…
Caracas-born Mendoza, 22, who visited the facility March 20-25 along with Miss USA Crystle Stewart, 27, enthused about her Guantanamo trip as an “incredible experience” in a blog entry posted on the Miss Universe website dated March 27, 2009 (http://www.missuniverse.com/missuniverse/blog.php).
“It was a loooot of fun!,” Mendoza wrote, describing how she and Stewart met U.S. military personnel and took rides around the camp, which is encircled by a barbed-wire fenced, minefields and watchtowers. She said they also visited a bar on the base and the “unbelievable” beach there.
“We visited the Detainees camps and we saw the jails, where they shower, how the(y) recreate themselves with movies, classes of art, books. It was very interesting,” she wrote.
“I didn’t want to leave, it was such a relaxing place, so calm and beautiful,” she added.
Ms. Mendoza may not be trained to seriously evaluate the conditions under which GitMo prisoners are held, but she’d probably recognize torture and deprivation if she saw it. After all, she lived under Hugo Chavez’s regime, so she knows what oppression looks like. She clearly did not see it at Guantanamo. All the more reason to keep the prisoners there rather than release them into the United States.
A footnote to this story: the Miss Universe pageant apparently doesn’t like it that Ms. Mendoza is speaking inconvenient truths. The referenced blog post seems to have gone down the memory hole.
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Doc Holliday (Diary) Tuesday, March 31st at 3:49PM EST (link)and yet, somehow ignoring it at the same time. This babe better stay with Miss USA and defect, that would be way cool.
Molon Labe!
This Isn't the Bush/Cheney Songbook
Joe Cor (Diary) Tuesday, March 31st at 3:51PM EST (link)Unless President Bush was singing a song for the mute. He never could bother himself to defend Gitmo as well as Miss Universe did.
abu ghraib
omar Wednesday, April 1st at 8:16AM EST (link)must have just been a fluke. I mean, we’d never do that sort of thing in more than one location. They couldn’t possibly have stopped now that they got caught.
I’m pretty sure that many representatives got to visit the prisons and never saw anything even when it was going on, it’s not like they get a room by room tour.
RE: abu ghraib
Martin Knight (Diary) Wednesday, April 1st at 8:34AM EST (link)So to clarify; is it your position that the idiocy that went on at Abu Ghraib is actually more the practice in the military than the exception? In other words, do you believe the behavior of the servicemen and women at Abu Ghraib is representative of the typical soldier’s behavior?
NOTE: One of the funniest things I ever read was the slamming of a Lefty (by other liberals) for actually posting something that went something like; “Slavery, The Holocaust, the Killing Fields … and now, Abu Ghraib – the greatest atrocities in the history of Mankind.”
I admit it; I laughed for hours.
haha, i'd laugh too
omar Wednesday, April 1st at 9:58AM EST (link)Although I would find it hard to believe those events were unique. From the documentary I watched on the events in Abu Ghraib it seemed to be systematic to the whole installation and that it was condoned by much higher level officers. I don’t believe there was a direct order [from rumsfeld/cheney whoever on top] that told those soldiers to do all the things they did. Although it was, at the minimum, condoned. Does that mean Guantanamo was the exact same, absolutely not. Does that call into question the conditions in all of our detainment centers, absolutely. I’m sure they’re much better now, but Abu Ghraib and our actions are unfortunately going to haunt us and severely harm our moral authority on a global scale. I mean, we’re talking about soldiers, they can’t do the things they did if the officers in charge didn’t at least let it slide.
I think I said this somewhere else. personally, I would LOVE to see some of these terrorists thrown into one of our “don’t drop the soap” federal prisons.
woops, sry
And your evidence for this is ...?
Martin Knight (Diary) Wednesday, April 1st at 12:57PM EST (link)Liberals seem to believe that the typical serviceman is some brainless automaton that is too dumb to breathe unless so ordered. That’s not true.
By the way though, I notice that Brigadier General Janis Karpinski – who commanded the prison – has somehow morphed into a heroine on the Left.
Oh, never mind omar.
Neil Stevens (Diary) Friday, April 3rd at 4:43PM EST (link)Get your lying pro-terrorist propaganda out of here.
Blam.
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haha, I'd laugh too
omar Wednesday, April 1st at 9:58AM EST (link)Although I would find it hard to believe those events were unique. From the documentary I watched on the events in Abu Ghraib it seemed to be systematic to the whole installation and that it was condoned by much higher level officers. I don’t believe there was a direct order [from rumsfeld/cheney whoever on top] that told those soldiers to do all the things they did. Although it was, at the minimum, condoned. Does that mean Guantanamo was the exact same, absolutely not. Does that call into question the conditions in all of our detainment centers, absolutely. I’m sure they’re much better now, but Abu Ghraib and our actions are unfortunately going to haunt us and severely harm our moral authority on a global scale. I mean, we’re talking about soldiers, they can’t do the things they did if the officers in charge didn’t at least let it slide.
I think I said this somewhere else. personally, I would LOVE to see some of these terrorists thrown into one of our “don’t drop the soap” federal prisons.