The leader of the Klueless Kos Klan remarks on Richard ‘The Dickster’ Durbin’s remarks on the floor of the Senate during the discussion of the energy bill,
The story from right-wing rag Washington Times earlier tonight sported this headline:
Durbin Calls Gitmo a Death Camp
Except he didn’t call it a death camp.
So they changed it to: Gitmo called death camp
Which is interesting, because no one has called it a “death camp”.
OK, maybe I missed something here but, what exactly was a gulag, Kos?
Excerpted from the Library of Congress page here: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/gula.html
Conditions in the camps were extremely harsh. Prisoners received inadequate food rations and insufficient clothing, which made it difficult to endure the severe weather and the long working hours; sometimes the inmates were physically abused by camp guards. As a result, the death rate from exhaustion and disease in the camps was high. After Stalin died in 1953, the Gulag population was reduced significantly, and conditions for inmates somewhat improved. Forced labor camps continued to exist, although on a small scale, into the Gorbachev period, and the government even opened some camps to scrutiny by journalists and human rights activists. With the advance of democratization, political prisoners and prisoners of conscience all but disappeared from the camps.
How much forced labor am I (as a taxpayer) getting out of the Guantanamo inmates?
Oh right… none.
What is the death count in Guantanamo?
Oh right… there isn’t one.