FNC's Catherine Herridge traveled to Bermuda to meet the four Chinese Muslim Uighurs just released from Guantanamo Bay and she elicited from them that living in China is worse than life at Guantanamo. Talking to them through an interpreter at their new home, a pink bungalow with a swimming pool, Herridge reported how she “asked which was worse: Life at Gitmo versus China?” The interpreter relayed, over the voices of all of the men talking: “Of course it's China. There's no guarantee for human rights there.”
So, there's a new angle for the media: Guantanamo as a bastion of human rights protections. Not really much of a surprise in contrast to China, but it took a FNC reporter to frame the comparison between a U.S. military-run detention center and a communist nation.
From Herridge's piece on the Monday, June 15 Special Report with Bret Baier:
CATHERINE HERRIDGE: They say the worst moment at Gitmo came when the U.S. allowed Chinese interrogators to question them.INTERPRETER: They were really harsh. They were threatening them.
HERRIDGE: Camp Iguana, the camp with the least restrictions, was the men's most recent home. Asked which was worse: Life at Gitmo versus China?
INTERPRETER: Of course it's China. There's no guarantee for human rights there.
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How much air time will this get in the MSM?
June 16, 2009 - 02:33 ET by spmcintyreI would say in all fairness a big fat O .......
O'goose egg
O'zero
O'nada
anything that makes you look bad, kill it, that seems how recent events have been going
there is no spoon...
It will get about as much
June 16, 2009 - 07:19 ET by motherbeltIt will get about as much time as this will
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Do these folks deserve Miranda rights? Do they deserve to be treated like a shoplifter down the block? Of course not. (from his "60 Minutes" appearance [in Feb?])
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Of course it's China.
June 16, 2009 - 03:11 ET by RR GOPOf course it's China. There's no guarantee for human rights there.
Uh, let's not forget that these Weebles or whatever they're called were caught at a camp where they were learning how to be terrorists. To do this they had to travel from China to Afghanistan.
And they're talking about human rights...they're right of course, but still it's a pot and a kettle thing.
One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 61% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory (yep...approval for Congress now at 39%...do you believe that!?).
China shares a border with Afghanistan
June 16, 2009 - 07:16 ET by c5thenVery similar to the way that Pakistan and Afghanistan share a border.
No one disputes that fact that they were leraning how to do nasty things at the camp. It is also not disputed that if they are given back to China, they will be tortured (real torture, not mere waterboarding) and killed.
Now that they are out of custody and in a known location, my guess is that their life expectancy is only a few months. China takes care of it's potential problems much like the old Soviet Union.
The administration knows this, but the political agenda of closing Gitmo is much more important to them than the deaths of some of the ex-detainees. Some of the detainees (like the Uigers) were actually being held there for their own good.
Hey, I got the wrong "CHANGE"!
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LOL
June 16, 2009 - 05:53 ET by DontFeedTheTrollsOh come on! You know they are just afraid to say Dick Cheney will come and torture them if they reveal the truth! You can see the marks on their heads from the women's panties! These guys were obviously waterboarded and now cower in fear and jump at every sound. George Bush haunts their dreams and they all love Obama. No bias no bull!
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I bet that condo in the background has a nice view.
June 16, 2009 - 06:53 ET by superconIt is a strange world we live in when you can get jealous of a terrorist.
Hey Janet Napolitano...I'm proud to be a Right-winger.
supercon,
June 16, 2009 - 07:22 ET by AgnosticI was a little invious myself until I saw that http://www.daybydayc...
was offering up Hillary Clinton as one of the 42 virgins.
A person may be won over with logic and reason but the masses must be bought with spectacle and platitudes. - 2008 Elections
Payment
June 16, 2009 - 07:28 ET by nadadhimmiSo,,, who is paying the rent for the beautiful pink house with a swimming pool in Bermuda?, the clothes, food, transportation??. This is starting to resemble an all inclusive luxury vacation for 4. I'm very GD pissed off because Obama, I'm sure, is stealing my tax money to coddle maniacal terrorist that want to behead my kids. These terrorists, just like Obama, "DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' BIRTH CERTIFICATS", to mooch off the American People.
the first thing I thought
June 16, 2009 - 07:33 ET by seaniepthe first thing I thought of when I saw the pictures of these fatasses swimming and eating ice cream was the photos of American POWs coming home from Vietnam - I didn't see too many potbellies on them
but that wasn't nearly as bad as a the torture in gtmo
I hate the New York Times more than it hates the US Military
Potbellies my A$$
June 16, 2009 - 09:06 ET by ThisnThatI'm surprised how quickly these four prisoners recovered from all the GITMO torturing they were subjected to. From all the MSM reports, they should all be riding around in wheelchairs with casts or artificial limbs.
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Re: Potbellies
June 16, 2009 - 12:42 ET by slickwillie2001Yeah, and you'd think they would have developed an unreasonable fear of water.
Now that's funny! "What, now
June 16, 2009 - 13:41 ET by SickofLibsNow that's funny!
"What, now we're going to ANOTHER island???"
LMAO... I Second that
June 16, 2009 - 13:51 ET by bigtimerLMAO...
I Second that SoL.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
Hmmm, more rights than
June 16, 2009 - 13:09 ET by dscottHmmm, more rights than China... China has more freedom of movement than Gitmo but no rights... to do what exactly? However, in an Islamic country under Sharia Law, you have neither...Iran
I suppose they were picked up in that camp in Afghanistan because they wanted to become Islamic Boy Scouts.
Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, starving the poor one gallon of ethanol at a time. Fill your tank with E85 and cull a village.
"Leave It To Weeger"
June 16, 2009 - 09:37 ET by SickofLibsI'm sensing the story of the boys "assimilating" in Bermuda would make a great reality show.
"No, Adbul, jellyfish are not an insult to Islam."
SoL... I wouldn't doubt
June 16, 2009 - 13:28 ET by bigtimerSoL...
I wouldn't doubt if that isn't in the works now behind the scenes in La-La-Land.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart