(Click on Image to Enlarge)Guantanamo Soccer Field Decision Comes Under Heat -- Huffington Post/Reuters
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba, March 1 (Reuters) - The U.S. admiral in charge of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp is defending the decision to build a $744,000 soccer field for well-behaved prisoners, and said critics misunderstood the facility's purpose and logistics.
Rear Admiral David Woods said the camp's mission was not to punish foreign captives unnecessarily, many of whom have been held there for 10 years already. He said his job is to detain them away from the battlefield under safe and humane conditions, and that providing socialization opportunities was part of that.
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Guantanamo detainees get new $750G soccer field -- FOX News
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My Comment: That's one hell of an expensive soccer field. I know that this story is a few days old, but I just the above cartoon that Ramirez has done .... and this is my way of having it posted.
What's wrong with a field of grass and some goal posts?
ReplyDeleteSeems there is more going on there, $744k for a football field? For prisoners? Are the footballs gold plated or something?
About 5k will go towards the building of the field (even that is too much) and the rest will probably go elsewhere, vanishing into the abyss of 'miscellaneous' costs.
Totally agree D.Plowman. When I was a kid all we needed was some grass, a field, a soccer ball, and some goal posts. $750k for a soccer field .... something smells bad.
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