Drew Brees recently went to Guantanamo Bay to find out what’s REALLY going on. I doubt there’s any reason for these visits other than positive publicity. You may remember that Miss Universe remarked that Gitmo was “fun” after she made the trip.
Brees was clearly won over by the detainment center and has been gushing about the conditions in which the prisoners are kept. He later went on to say “American, F*ck Yeah!” Apparently, they are given many freedoms that American prisoners are not. They even tell them which direction Mecca is! I guess they didn’t get a chance to show him the waterboarding room. I do have one issue with Guantanamo though. Those MFers have Wii? I don’t even have a Wii. If they get Madden 10, I’m sending a letter to my congressman.
Prisoners at Gitmo prepare for a Wii Golf tournament
Via Shutdown Corner:
“I can say this after that experience — the worst thing we can do is shut that baby down, for a lot of reasons,” Brees said. “But I think there’s a big misconception as to how we are treating those prisoners; those detainees over there. They are being treated probably 10 times better than any prisoner in a U.S. prison.”
“I mean, they’re allowed to call and write letters home, and receive letters and calls. They get five opportunities a day to pray, and they have arrows in the prison pointing towards where Mecca is. And the prison goes dead silent so these guys can have their religious time. They have rooms where they can watch movies and play Nintendo Wii. So I think that just goes ahead and says it right there.”
“And you just talk to all the guards that are Army and Navy personnel, they’ll tell you stories about how these prisoners, they’ll be walking the cell blocks as they’re keeping an eye on these guys and they’ll be throwing the feces and urine in the faces of the guards as they walk by and the guards are not allowed to do anything. They’re not allowed to physically retaliate or do anything hardly to try to restrain these guys at all. These guys get away with whatever they want.”
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