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Five detainees ordered released "forthwith" after seven years at Guantanamo

If the U.S. Congress had its way, these men would continue to be imprisoned despite there being no evidence of their guilt.

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  • Thursday, November 20, 2008 06:33 PM

    Sounds Like A Government Job

    Or maybe a lawyers. totallyblase wrote: ". . . for the collaborators, quislings and sundry other criminals who have not been responsible for not only implementing these crimes . . . "

    Huh?? Jaysus, I look and the mirror and I see Rummy looking back, except with better hair . . .

    To add fuel to the flames of idiocy, totallyblase continues: "the pressure to do bad shit because you'd like like a pussy . . . "

    Like like a pussy?? Iggy Pop went one better with Does Your Pussy Walk . . . .

    Memo to totallyblase: ease back on the French Roast

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