Adventures at Gitmo
1st January 2010
Mark Steyn, sitting in for Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday, 29 December:
‘This movie they made about Gitmo showed some like emaciated figure hanging from the walls, right? The average weight gain for a Guantanamo detainee is eighteen pounds. And so if you tried to shackle them to the wall, the wall’s gonna collapse.’
‘This is where Amnesty International is going after all the wrong issues. … This is American innovation. Normally, if you go to a death camp, if you like went to a death camp run by the Soviets, the Chinese, the Cambodians, Ida Amin, you name it, the point of a death camp is that they starve you to death. The American death camp – this is the American cunning for you – you come in as a lean, wiry, fit Afghan jihadist, and you waddle out as a corpulent New Jersey lardbutt.’