This isn’t eyebrow raising, this is the reality. It sounds like he is doing a better job than the media in revealing the facts.

I don’t want to soil our beloved CSC with the foulness of politics, but “facts” aren’t always so cut and dry. I’m sure Drew had good intentions when he said that and believes what he was told while there, but can we assume they were being totally forthright with him? When a celebrity visits a controversial place like that where the people working there very much want to keep it open, odds are they are going to portray their facility to the celebrity as a place that’s been getting a bad rap so he/she can go be a cheerleader for them. The fact that they set Gitmo up outside the US where it wouldn’t be subject to our laws is why I’ve never believed in it or its usefulness. If those people are guilty of what they are accused of, then convict them and even execute them if their convictions warrant it. It’s unexcuseable to just hold them there indefinitely. That’s not the America I was taught to love and believe in.

I can’t say what the “facts” are about the place because I’ve never been there. I would caution others who also haven’t closely seen what goes on there to be careful what they choose to believe.

this story just raised Jeff Duncan’s eyebrows. Way to go, CSC, for getting a nod!

sounds like propaganda to me…

at least every 3 weeks or so.

 Hi Jeff! Welcome back to CSC! How is camp going for the Saints the first couple of weeks and what do you expect in tomorrow’s first preseason game?

Drew is of course entitled to his opinion (as is everyone) but not everyone wants to know about it. In particular on such a controversial topic,. Especially with Army itself as tour guide.

no more politics!

(unless it invovles drew brees running for emperor)

Haven’t I reached anyone here? I’ll say it again: bias is not only normal in reporting, it’s necessary. What one person calls “bias”—liberal / right-wing / fascist / comsymp / whatever—is simply the reporter’s world view, without which he could make no sense at all of the world he was trying to report on. You bring that pre-existing world view to the job, you analyze the story, you report it so that whatever is important is emphasized and whatever is trivial is left out—and somebody is guaranteed to call you biased. It only means you’ve done your job. There is no objectivity.

Now, that’s not to say that all biased reporting is good…but it’s not bad because it’s biased, it’s bad because it’s liberal / right-wing / fascist / comsymp / whatever. Depending on your world view.

Ends.

I’m inclined to agree with MtnExile as a writer and journalism-school graduate but i’ll say some media outlets do a great job of handling the issues while others are propaganda machines and i find those outlets a faux. (pun intended)

just so yall know pow’s are given at least 3 mre’s a day….. soooo around 5000 calories a day is not out of the question…. when your bored you eat. anyway drew is 100% correct about how those prisoners are treated. you cant even treat a detainee in iraq remotely bad. they check for bruises and wounds constantly. if anything is wrong or if the detainee complains about being mistreated he is usually set free. afterwards the soldier and leader is reprimanded. no one wants that so they treat prisoners accordingly. i understand that they may have been mistreated when the war just started. they may even be still in certain instances but for the most part they are living in their own little piece of heaven. the only thing they have to deal with is boredom. these people should have a speedy trial and if they are found innocent then they should be released. im fairly certain though that if they were guilty of any small crime like attacking an american convoy or something of that nature they would be in an iraqi jail. they would not waste the time or effort on a detainee if he is a farmer thats pissed off because tanks keep running through his land and he sets out a bomb. gitmo is reserved for actual terror suspects.