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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBrian Ross on ABC's This Week: propaganda, no other word for it
The story is titled "Released into Luxury" -- the five Taliban former Gitmo prisoners now in Qatar. Brian, like that announcer from "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous," unctuously insists that the five will enjoy what amounts to "a year-long all-expenses paid vacation for them and their extended families in the midst of luxury." They can come and go as they please "in this country with the highest per capita growth in the world, the five-star hotels and other trappings of wealth and prosperity." The five were released to "a hero's welcome" and installed in upscale suburban villas. They've promised not to be bad, but will be released into the wild in only 51 weeks. 51 WEEKS. Until then, champagne wishes and caviar dreams. What the ...? (I know I shouldn't watch ABC news of any sort but it's there in my field of vision sometimes and suffering builds character.)
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)They support the worst of the worst.
It's also home to the US navies Persian gulf fleet.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Now.
betsuni
(25,617 posts)jakeXT
(10,575 posts)ST. GEORGE, Bermuda Almost exactly seven years after arriving at Guantánamo in chains as accused enemy combatants, and four days after their surprise predawn flight to Bermuda, four Uighur Muslim men basked in their new-found freedom here, grateful for the handshakes many residents had offered and marveling at the serene beauty of this tidy, postcard island.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/15/world/americas/15uighur.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Basking. At least that story told us they ate fish and chips. We don't know what the Taliban dudes ate or what they bought at the duty-free shop.
betsuni
(25,617 posts)on This Week was Rep. Mike Rogers who seems like a bit of a lunatic. Said, "This administration has this theory that you're either with them or you're for thermonuclear war and there's nothing in between." I'm backing out of the room slowly and shutting off the TV machine and will not think of this thing I thought I heard ever again because I don't want to catch lunacy.
gerogie2
(450 posts)US warriors are eligible for a large education payment plan, subsidized mortgages, in some cases health care for life and a lifetime pension. It is bad for one country or region to award their warriors, but OK for the west to award their warriors?