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Hunger strikers pledge to die in Guantánamo
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Posted by Steve White 2005-09-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 And the problem is?
Posted by 3dc 2005-09-09 00:18||   2005-09-09 00:18|| Front Page Top

#2 hunger strikes only matter if someone cares. Otehrwise, it's just the same as if they decided to slowly make room for another mook. I have no problem with that. Starve em and BBQ outside their cells - Pork ribs and beer for the troops!
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2005-09-09 00:45||   2005-09-09 00:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Starve em and BBQ outside their cells - Pork ribs and beer for the troops!

Ooh, I'm in! Dibs on the potato salad!
Posted by badanov 2005-09-09 01:32|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org]  2005-09-09 01:32|| Front Page Top

#4 I feel the problem may be us being seen in a bad light for allowing them to die. To stir up more aggitation toward us is something that we don't need now. Maybe if we have someone overseeing (not that I like this idea) the situation to enable us to prove that no wrong doing is going on, in the event that they do die.
Like don't show the guys enjoying the BBQ pork ribs downwind from the inmates.
Posted by Jan 2005-09-09 01:49||   2005-09-09 01:49|| Front Page Top

#5 my bad I meant the inmates downwind of the delicious ribs but you knew that right
Posted by Jan 2005-09-09 01:59||   2005-09-09 01:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Hunger strikers pledge to die in Guantánamo

promises promises...

my bad I meant the inmates downwind of the delicious ribs but you knew that right

/double probation. >:
Posted by Red Dog 2005-09-09 02:35||   2005-09-09 02:35|| Front Page Top

#7 How much money does it save the USA if this slime dies? It's always the matter of bottom line right ;-)
Posted by Long Hair Republican">Long Hair Republican  2005-09-09 02:58||   2005-09-09 02:58|| Front Page Top

#8 It seems to me that their are many, many involuntarily starving people in the world who could use the grub. Next...
Posted by Captain America 2005-09-09 05:12||   2005-09-09 05:12|| Front Page Top

#9 2points:1)If they starve themselves then they have comitted suicide and go to hell,2)asking wether I believe the terrs or the Pentagon only matters if I care wether they live or die.And I don't.
Posted by raptor 2005-09-09 07:05||   2005-09-09 07:05|| Front Page Top

#10 Y'all missed the last two lines - "They are listed as being in a stable condition and they are recieving nutrition." Asked if they were being force fed, he said: "They are being held in the same standards as US prison standards... they don't allow people to kill themselves via starvation."

Sounds like when they're too weak to resist, they plop 'em in a rack and hook 'em up to a tube. But I'm sure they don't let 'em get too healthy!

BTW, just what sort of implement of torture is the "36-French silastic nasgoastric feeding tube"?

Naso-gastric?
Posted by Bobby 2005-09-09 07:51||   2005-09-09 07:51|| Front Page Top

#11 ok they bitchin about conditions? Weren't they captured in Afghanistan? aka shithole of the earth
Posted by Uninetle Hupating2229 2005-09-09 08:28||   2005-09-09 08:28|| Front Page Top

#12 Naso-gastric?

Judging from the base words, I'd say it goes through the nose and into the stomach.

If they starve themselves then they have comitted suicide and go to hell

Except they're jihadis. Which means their deaths are in the cause of Allah, and starving to death ends with them getting their raisins and young boys.
Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford  2005-09-09 08:59|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2005-09-09 08:59|| Front Page Top

#13 Inserting a NG tube is rather slow and most uncomfortable. Might I suggest off the shelf water hose? Vastly increased volume and they come in some lovely colors.
Posted by Steven 2005-09-09 09:18||   2005-09-09 09:18|| Front Page Top

#14 Starve? We should be so lucky.
Posted by MunkarKat 2005-09-09 09:34||   2005-09-09 09:34|| Front Page Top

#15 I say tube 'em. No point in letting terrorists get all peaceful and euphoric.
Posted by BH 2005-09-09 10:46||   2005-09-09 10:46|| Front Page Top

#16 Might I suggest off the shelf water hose?

Maybe someone can make a feeding tube based on pig intestine.
Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford  2005-09-09 11:46|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2005-09-09 11:46|| Front Page Top

#17 Hunger strikers pledge to die in Guantánamo

Is there any way this can legally be helped along, as in speeded up?
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-09-09 11:50||   2005-09-09 11:50|| Front Page Top

#18 Helluva waste of Jihadi Brand Shark Food, if you ask me...
Posted by tu3031 2005-09-09 12:17||   2005-09-09 12:17|| Front Page Top

#19 Why the hell should the American guards have to give in to these terrorist demands?

My life will march foward regardless if these vile creatures live or not.
Posted by Oztralian [AKA] God Save The World 2005-09-09 12:27|| www.the-voice-clan.com]">[www.the-voice-clan.com]  2005-09-09 12:27|| Front Page Top

#20 The morons on in our detention centres pull the same stunt, quite regularly, and they always win.
Posted by Oztralian [AKA] God Save The World 2005-09-09 12:28|| www.the-voice-clan.com]">[www.the-voice-clan.com]  2005-09-09 12:28|| Front Page Top

#21 So, they won't stop their hunger strike untill they are either respected or dead?

How can anyone respect individuals who give praise and credit to people who carry out the mass murder of innocent civilians world wide?
I'll show you some respect, step a little bit closer so i can spit on that overgrown flea infested beard of yours, you dirty maggot.
Posted by Oztralian [AKA] God Save The World 2005-09-09 12:32|| www.the-voice-clan.com]">[www.the-voice-clan.com]  2005-09-09 12:32|| Front Page Top

#22 if my post seems a little over the top, im sorry... im drunk... not that thats anny excuse, but when i read that that loose-limb muslim wanted to be respected, that made my blood boil... I'm no troll, i'm trying to be civilized, and that's part of the reason i don't post many comments, is because my views stem from my anger, and i usually post nasty insults to my number #1 enemy....... the Muslims
Posted by Oztralian [AKA] God Save The World 2005-09-09 12:42|| www.the-voice-clan.com]">[www.the-voice-clan.com]  2005-09-09 12:42|| Front Page Top

#23 We know you're not a troll Oz.

"I'll show you some respect, step a little bit closer so i can spit on that overgrown flea infested beard of yours, you dirty maggot."

You forgot, "after I drench your sorry ass in pig guts."

Well, ya' know they'd LOVE to do worse to us.

BTW--the "respect" these guys want is NOT going to come no matter what we do (outside therapy and cultural revolution), since the issue is tied to personal sexual maladjustment problems. They'll always feel disrespected at the deepest level. No amount of booming is gonna do it either. I feel kind of sorry for 'em. Just a teensie bit -- but it's mostly on an abstract, academic level.

Also, I doubt any of them have the fortitude to starve themselves to death, UNLESS they've rerouted their need for male respect (from other males) into the "see me -- I'm so cool, and strong and worthy, blah, blah, blah -- admire me and my "manhood" because I'm going to starve" to which the others go "Ahhhhh . . . good job . . . allah is great, blah, blah, blah." Other than that, I don't see it happening.

Get a lamb roasting on a spit, and serve it up with some fresh-baked flatbread, some bakalave and fruit, and they'll break their "commitment" to jihad in 10 seconds.

Nice comments, everyone. You totally made my day.
Posted by ex-lib 2005-09-09 16:07||   2005-09-09 16:07|| Front Page Top

#24 I've got a terrific recipe for baklava if anyone wants it. Really.
Posted by ex-lib 2005-09-09 16:09||   2005-09-09 16:09|| Front Page Top

#25 What in science, is called "an elegant solution".
(1) they die
(2) we save tax money on food.
Posted by Uniger Slolurong7488 2005-09-09 17:17||   2005-09-09 17:17|| Front Page Top

#26 Well, post the recipe my good man. I've got an opened roll of filo dough that needs to be used this weekend.
Posted by ed 2005-09-09 17:47||   2005-09-09 17:47|| Front Page Top

#27 Connie the Short Bus Lady's Unkle Melvin has 80 behives so I've got the honey. Anybody need some?
Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues  2005-09-09 18:10||   2005-09-09 18:10|| Front Page Top

#28 I guess it's time for a little shark-trolling in the waters south of Cuba.

These people are nothing. They count for nothing. They and their idiot-stick lawyer(s) should be bound together with half-inch steel cable and forced to swim to Venezuela. We as a nation have got to learn that there is such a thing as being too nice, especially to scum like islamofascist fruitcakes. Shackle them to the under-wing drop-racks of a few B-52's, let the birds fly at altitude until the jihadis are frozen solid, and drop them in the center of the Sargasso Sea.
Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot  2005-09-09 20:40|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]  2005-09-09 20:40|| Front Page Top

#29 the men are starving themselves in protest at the conditions in the camp and at their alleged maltreatment

That's not really why they went on a hunger strike. They missed being tortured straddled by the female interrogators. They discovered that they actually liked it. But they can't get anymore "action" since these tactics were stopped due to the public outcry. And wanking in view of the guards has lost its thrill. Soooo....hunger strike! The Guardian put its own spin on this of course.
Posted by Rafael 2005-09-09 22:34||   2005-09-09 22:34|| Front Page Top

#30 #16 RC, I busted a (pig) gut with this one. Touche
Posted by Jan 2005-09-09 23:35||   2005-09-09 23:35|| Front Page Top

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