Gitmo – Still in the News

Gitmo – the base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in case you’ve been asleep for the last year – is still in the news. Last June when Senator Dick Durbin compared our troops to Nazi concentration camp guards, Senator Duncan Hunter responded by explaining how not only do we not torture these prisoners, we provide them with everything they need to continue practicing their religion, including halal meals. I’m a contributing author for Dummocrats and we got the idea for the Gitmo cookbook. I called Cuba and got the menus, found the Navy recipe database, and the Dummocrats and their families tested the recipes, scaled them down from 100 servings to family-sized portions and got them organized into a cookbook with relevant quotes from our founding fathers to Osama bin Laden to Shirley McLain. We started selling them at www.gitmocookbook.com, after a delay because of Katrina. (The printer called to say the books were finished the day before I evacuated.) All profits go to the USO; this was a way to show support for the troops who were slandered and a way to thumb our noses at the liberal media who repeatedly implied that we had just picked up a group of innocent goatherders from fields in Afghanistan for the pure amusement of keeping them locked up.

Gitmo has been in the news on and off since then but for the most part the issue seemed to die down after Durbin offered a rather weaselly apology*. However Michelle Malkin has kept on top of the story all year – certainly better than I have and light-years ahead of the rest of the media – and her latest post is GITMO and the London Terror Bombings. Remember the 7/7 bombings in London? 52 dead, over 700 wounded? That happened just one month after all the flap about Gitmo. And we’re now finding out that, quel surprise! the terrorist held at the GTMO base actually had valuable information on “background on movements, travels, financing, communications, means of communications, recruitment, training, that sort of thing.”

Read the whole article at Michelle Malkin’s, and don’t forget to check out the long list of other posts she has done on Gitmo. Gitmo is still providing valuable information on how the terrorists operate. And our troops are STILL not and never will be equivalent to Nazis.

Updated: *If you want to view Durbin’s weaselly apology, very much like Pat Robertson’s recent weaselly apology, see it here, as always, at The Political Teen.