For months and years we've heard the media, the left, and our European "allies" crowing about the outrageous abuses taking place at the enemy combatant detention center, Guantanamo Bay Prison (GITMO) in Cuba. These claims of abuses have almost always turned out to be completely false or totally blown out of proportion. We all remember when Newsweek ran the false story about a Gitmo guard flushing one of the detainee's Korans down the toilet. Newsweek was eventually forced to make a retraction, but not before over a dozen were killed and many more injured in riots in Afghanistan in reaction to the story.

The majority of other cases of "abuse" turned out to be not much more than humiliation, despite attempts by the media and "human rights" insistence that they are tantamount to torture. Things like making a detainee wear a bra, dance with a man, or act like a dog. How could we treat people with such unspeakable cruelty!? (sarcasm)

Of course there were the 5 famous substantiated cases of "mishandling" of the Koran or the time urine came in contact with the Koran. Of course the media ran wild with these stories and other unsubstantiated allegations, while virtually ignoring all the cases of detainees destroying their own Korans and throwing them in the toilets.

All of these horrific abuses, according to top Senate Democrat Dick Durbin, rose the level of what some of the most evil men the planet has ever see did to their victims. Durbin famously said:

"If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags or some mad regime — Pol Pot or others — that had no concern for human beings,"

You can't repeat that quote enough, because it shows exactly what the modern Democratic Party is all about. What's sad is that his Dem pals in the House even had to admit that after personally visiting Gitmo, they saw nothing to support the abuse allegations. Of course they treated is as progress, rather than a continuance of how it always was. Other reports have come back showing the same thing - that Gitmo is nothing like it's portrayed in the media.

I suppose Durbin was on solid ground when comparing our military men and women to Nazis though. He must have just gotten the advanced report that the detainees are tortured daily by being fed gourmet Islam compliant meals, cooled with air conditioning, having their own personal bathrooms, and enduring the pain of tasty treats like ice cream and cookies! Man we Americans are evil!

Screw all this reality though, we should probably take the word of human rights activists who put on a play in the UK's House of Commons to show us all what Gitmo is really like. I guess I must have missed their other performances reliving the abuses of Saddam Hussein.

Now after months of bogus liberal media reports, lies of "human rights" groups about abuse/torture that came only from the mouths of detainees, and a court ruling that forced Bush to cave in and give Geneva Convention rights to these people, which is essentially the treatment they got anyway, we learn that the abuse seems to be coming more from the detainees and not directed at them.

It seems that beyond destroying their own Korans, the detainees have violently and/or disgustingly attacked the guards on hundreds of occassions just between Dec. 2002 and July 2005. And of course we all remember the attempted (and thankfully failed) ambush attempt by detainees when one faked a suicide attempt in May of this year. Just what have the detainees been up to you ask? Well...

WASHINGTON - The prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay during the war on terror have attacked their military guards hundreds of times, turning broken toilet parts, utensils, radios and even a bloody lizard tail into makeshift weapons.

Pentagon incident reports reviewed by The Associated Press show Military Police guards are routinely head-butted, spat upon and doused by "cocktails" of feces, urine, vomit and sperm collected in meal cups by the prisoners.

If the rest of this wasn't so disgusting, the attack with a lizard tail is actually pretty funny. All I can think of is the asian guy in Austin Powers who's weapon of choice is to throw is shoe, and when Austin encounters him and says, "Honestly man, who throws a shoe?". "Honestly Jihadi, who stabs with a lizard tail?"

The detainee "reached under the face mask of an IRF (Initial Reaction Force) team member's helmet and scratched his face, attempting to gouge his eyes," states a May 27, 2005, report on an effort to remove a recalcitrant prisoner from his cell.

"The IRF team member received scratches to his face and eye socket area," the report said.

Of course the AP (always fair and balanced, right?) decided to get the other side of the story, and ask a detainee (you know, because we should trust anything they say).

Moazamm Begg, 38, a prisoner for more than two years at Guantanamo before being released to Great Britain, said he was suspicious of the Pentagon's description of incidents, especially allegations that Muslim men tore their Qurans or used sperm in attacks. The Pentagon continues to publicly question Begg's claim of innocence.

"This just doesn't make sense — especially since for Muslims this would be something that was disgusting, something that just wouldn't be done," he said. He added that some detainees told him they had mixed toothpaste and spit in the cocktails to make it look like semen.

Hold on, hold on... I'm trying to take notes on this, because I'm studying for my Islam admissions test... So that I'm clear - Muslims wouldn't throw man juice at prison guards... But they're not averse to flying planes in to buildings to kill thousands of innocent people, straping bombs on themselves and getting on buses to kill women and children, or hiding in civilian populations, mosques and schools? Allah-hu-Akbar!

The reports detail more than 440 incidents between guards and prisoners from December 2002 through summer 2005 that resulted in recommendations of discipline, an average of about three per week. The names of guards and prisoners as well as the final discipline were blacked out by the Pentagon.

Not enough for ya?

"Detainee stabbed the MP guard ... in the hand with his spork from chow meal," the report said, adding the prisoner later "made a slicing motion across his neck" and vowed to kill the guard.

"They'll take the smallest things, be it a piece of rust," he said. "They told us they are going to take that piece of rust and they are going for the jugular, they are going for the eye. They know what our vulnerabilities are, anatomically speaking."

Meal plates, shower flip-flops, cleaning brushes and other items deemed harmless in civilian life also are commonly turned into weapons, the reports said. For instance:

_"Detainee in cell (redacted) grabbed the radio from an MP and then threw the radio at the MP. The detainee then threw rocks at the MP," a Dec. 23, 2003, incident report stated.

_A detainee "reached out of his bean hole and attacked MP (name redacted) with a piece of metal foot pad from toilet striking him on the left hip area," a July 15, 2005, report said.

_"Detainee broke off the top of his sink, subsequently broke out the window then began throwing the sink and pieces of pipes at the Block Guard," a March 25, 2005, report said.

One of the most unusual incidents detailed in the four-inch stack of incident reports occurred when a detainee in the prison recreation yard assaulted a guard with a bloody tail torn from a lizard.

The detainee "caught the iguana by the tail at which time the tail detached," the May 2005 report described. When the guard turned to talk to a commanding officer, "he felt something strike him in the lower right back" and then "saw the tail on the ground at his feet and blood was in the same area of his uniform." The detainee said he was "just playing."

Nicolucci said one of the most serious incidents occurred this May, too recent to be recorded in the Pentagon's released reports. A prisoner staged an apparent suicide attempt while his inmates slicked the floors with human waste, seeking to overpower guards when they slipped, he said.

Nothing to see here mainstream media!!! Ignore these 440 documented incidents, and just keep reporting the handful of "abuses" based on nothing more than detainee testimony. I mean, reporting on what sick bastards these detainees are doesn't make the United States military look bad, and it doesn't stand to hurt the President politcally, so there's really no need to report the REAL story here.

Michelle Malkin, as digusted as I, adds more to the story with a personal letter from a father of one of the female troops serving at Gitmo. Here's just a paragraph (read on an empty stomach):

I just watched you on FOX. My daughter was in Gitmo for a year as a Master-at- Arms, E4. (10/04-10/05) She was injured several times by the inmates assaulting her physically. In addition, she knew that when she was doing her job by enforcing the rules, she was threatened by the prisoners if she had to touch them. They would get her. They mixed a cocktail of urine, feces, and semen, and let it fester for days until the right moment. They warned her that she was a target and then they got her, she was assaulted several times by loads of crap thrown at her.

BUT BUT... BUT the Americans made a detainee bark like a dog! That's the real crime, cant you see!?

How do we fight a war when we have to worry about so much little BS from the left, the media, and our "allies", essentially fighting against us every chance they get? Malkin sums it up:

Do you find yourself muttering "we're screwed" under your breath 10 times a day, too?

Sadly, yes. Can you guys even imagine what would happen to a prisoner in a civilian prison in the United States if they behaved like this?

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