Guantanamo a Relaxing Place, Miss Universe says.

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April 01, 2009, 08:13:56 AM
http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE5301RS20090401

By Pascal Fletcher

MIAMI (Reuters) - A "relaxing, calm, beautiful place" may not be everyone's description of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the United States holds about 240 prisoners in a detention centre that has drawn condemnation from around the world.

But this was the opinion of reigning Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza of Venezuela, who visited the U.S. naval facility in eastern Cuba this month on a trip organized by the United Service Organizations (USO) which supports U.S. troops.

The Guantanamo Bay base, whose presence Cuba's government has contested as illegal for years, is used by U.S. authorities as a prison camp for foreign terrorism suspects. Critics have condemned it as a symbol of abuses in Washington's war on terrorism launched after the September 11, 2001, attacks.

Caracas-born Mendoza, 22, who visited the facility March 20-25 along with Miss USA Crystle Stewart, 27, enthused about her Guantanamo trip as an "incredible experience" in a blog entry posted on the Miss Universe website dated March 27, 2009.

"It was a loooot of fun!," Mendoza wrote, describing how she and Stewart met U.S. military personnel and took rides around the camp, which is encircled by a barbed-wire fenced, minefields and watchtowers. She said they also visited a bar on the base and the "unbelievable" beach there.

"We visited the Detainees camps and we saw the jails, where they shower, how the(y) recreate themselves with movies, classes of art, books. It was very interesting," she wrote.

"I didn't want to leave, it was such a relaxing place, so calm and beautiful," she added.

Former detainees and human rights groups have alleged the use of torture, including "waterboarding" (simulated drowning) and other physical abuses, at the Guantanamo prison. + More.
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Ed Anger

#1
April 01, 2009, 08:15:12 AM
I'd waterboard her.

I'll be here all week. Try the veal. Be sure to tip your waitress.
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Neil

#2
April 01, 2009, 08:23:42 AM
Crystle?  That's fucking retarded.

GOD DAMN AMERICA.
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Caliga

#3
April 01, 2009, 08:34:44 AM
:unsure:

What?  It's Cuba. :swiss:
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Valmy

#4
April 01, 2009, 08:34:58 AM
Oh dear God why would the military do such a ridiculous thing?
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Jos Theelen

#5
April 01, 2009, 08:37:15 AM
Clearly not a Chavez-supporter, or incredibly stupid ("or" in the logical sense that both is also allowed)

Valmy

#6
April 01, 2009, 08:42:38 AM
Quote from: Jos Theelen on April 01, 2009, 08:37:15 AM
Clearly not a Chavez-supporter, or incredibly stupid ("or" in the logical sense that both is also allowed)

She probably is simply clueless about how embarrasing this is for her.

It is pretty embarrasing for us as well.  The military should be ashamed hosting this circus.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Jos Theelen

#7
April 01, 2009, 08:49:56 AM
Quote from: Valmy on April 01, 2009, 08:42:38 AMIt is pretty embarrasing for us as well.  The military should be ashamed hosting this circus.

Why? Great advertising. "Join the army, see miss w.., I mean the world". Perfect for most teenage boys.

Valmy

#8
April 01, 2009, 08:52:17 AM
Quote from: Jos Theelen on April 01, 2009, 08:49:56 AM
Why? Great advertising. "Join the army, see miss w.., I mean the world". Perfect for most teenage boys.

I assure you teenage boys of a sort considering a military career do not give a rats ass about beauty pageant winners.

Maybe if she was a famous actress or music star or something that might get their attention.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Admiral Yi

#9
April 01, 2009, 08:53:08 AM
Quote from: Jos Theelen on April 01, 2009, 08:49:56 AM
Why? Great advertising. "Join the army, see miss w.., I mean the world". Perfect for most teenage boys.
Presumably he means this particular military base, not the entire principle of transporting bimbos to the military, which has a long tradition.

Or not. :huh:

Valmy

#10
April 01, 2009, 08:55:17 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 01, 2009, 08:53:08 AM
Presumably he means this particular military base, not the entire principle of transporting bimbos to the military, which has a long tradition.

Or not. :huh:

Well yes.  It might help if it was a base that soldiers would be more likely to be stationed at. :P

But Guatanamo has such a dark reputation doing this is just embarrasing.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

PDH

#11
April 01, 2009, 08:58:42 AM
In other news, Miss Hooters 2009 is the keynote speaker at the IED Disarmament Convention, Miss America is assisting in an open-heart surgery, and Miss Succotash Queen from Illinois Normal has been elected head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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Norgy

#12
April 01, 2009, 09:06:14 AM
Miss Norway will hand out the Noble Piss Prize.

PDH

#13
April 01, 2009, 09:08:12 AM
Quote from: Norgy on April 01, 2009, 09:06:14 AM
Miss Norway will hand out the Noble Piss Prize.
Always in competition with the Germans...
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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Capetan Mihali

#14
April 01, 2009, 09:11:38 AM
Quote from: PDH on April 01, 2009, 08:58:42 AM
Miss Succotash Queen from Illinois Normal has been elected head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Say what you will about her personal life, but her record on the issues is solid, IMO.
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