{"id":467,"date":"2009-01-25T17:36:32","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T17:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=467"},"modified":"2009-01-25T17:36:32","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T17:36:32","slug":"guantanamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=467","title":{"rendered":"Guantanamo ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is an article in todays <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/01252009\/postopinion\/postopbooks\/inside_gitmo_151690.htm?page=0\">New York Post<\/a>&nbsp;written by&nbsp;former Army Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Cucullu detailing some of what actually happens (and does not happen) at Gauntanamo.&nbsp; According to the article:<\/p>\n<p jquery1232922796937=\"23\">&#8220;Considering that Guantanamo is one of the most inspected, highly supervised and stringently disciplined facilities in the world, I&#8217;m surprised it continues to be so misrepresented. I toured Guantanamo five times over the past three years and was greeted with absolute transparency. &#8220;Where do you want to go, what do you want to see?&#8221; authorities asked. &#8220;We&#8217;ll take you any where with no notice.&#8221; I took them up on their offer and walked all of the blocks, hospital, library, food prep, and interrogations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p jquery1232922796937=\"23\">The article lists the details of the care of the detainees&#8211;they receive medical care and they are given special meals to celebrate their religious holidays.&nbsp; The article also relates the fact that the detainees routinely mistreat the American military personnel guarding them there.<\/p>\n<p jquery1232922796937=\"23\">Before we spend too much of our energy sympathizing with these detainees, we need to look at what has happened when supposed &#8216;innocent&#8217; detainees are released.&nbsp; About 11 per cent of them have been recaptured on the battlefield.&nbsp; One released detainee is now heading Al Qaeda in Yemen.&nbsp; We need to think more carefully about what will happen to these people if we close Gauntanamo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an article in todays New York Post&nbsp;written by&nbsp;former Army Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Cucullu detailing some of what actually happens (and does not happen) at Gauntanamo.&nbsp; According to the article: &#8220;Considering that Guantanamo is one of the most inspected, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=467\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}