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DEATH BY CHOCOLATE

The torture continues for Gitmo detainees:

Meals totaling a whopping 4,200 calories per day are brought to their cells, well above the 2,000 to 3,000 calories recommended for weight maintenance by U.S. government dietary guidelines. And some inmates are eating everything on the menu ...

Human rights groups attribute the weight gain to lack of exercise.

Time to bring back the Electrified Treadmill of Tormentulation!

Posted by Tim B. on 10/07/2006 at 09:52 AM
  1. Human rights groups attribute the weight gain to lack of exercise

    Get the Islamists to watch Richard Simmons videos. We shall call it Allah-robics

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2006 10 07 at 10:02 AM • permalink

  2. Good strategy. A fat terrorist can’t run fast and requires a larger holes to slip through.

    Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 10 07 at 10:03 AM • permalink

  3. Listen. The Geneva Conventions are very clear on this matter: prisoners cannot be offered inducements, like chocolate bars, in exchange for military information. I blame Nestle’s, myself.

    Posted by andycanuck on 2006 10 07 at 10:06 AM • permalink

  4. I wonder if Halliburton has the contract to feed those creeps?

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 10 07 at 10:17 AM • permalink

  5. I sense an opportunity for a reality TV show. The Biggest Jihadi perhaps?

    Although the things that Jillian would do to them might actually contravene the Geneva Convention and give the lefties something to really complain about.

    Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 10 07 at 10:23 AM • permalink

  6. When Yusif sits around the cave, he really sits around the cave!

    Posted by Jim Treacher on 2006 10 07 at 10:26 AM • permalink

  7. No, this sad tale is death by chocolate, courtesy of Miss Moracle Whip.

    Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2006 10 07 at 10:32 AM • permalink

  8. er, “Miracle Whip”, I meant.

    Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2006 10 07 at 10:33 AM • permalink

  9. Introduce 3-legged sack races, if they don’t mind dressing like women.

    Posted by rhhardin on 2006 10 07 at 11:46 AM • permalink

  10. My imam’s so fat that he has his own area code.

    Posted by andycanuck on 2006 10 07 at 11:51 AM • permalink

  11. It sounds like what Gitmo needs is a Jenny Craig franchise!

    Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2006 10 07 at 11:52 AM • permalink

  12. 2 Wimpy Canadian

    Good strategy. A fat terrorist can’t run fast and requires a larger holes to slip through.

    AND, a larger target.

    Posted by El Cid on 2006 10 07 at 12:25 PM • permalink

  13. If we drag the War on Terror out long enough, they’ll all drop dead of heart attacks.  I tell you, our Dark Lord Rove is a genius!

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 10 07 at 12:52 PM • permalink

  14. We (the U.S.) are still kicking this dead horse…Below are the quotes, with play by play commentary by, moi.

    Guards describe Guantanamo prisoner abuse

    Guantanamo guards described physically and mentally abusing detainees, including slamming one’s head into a cell door (bad form, it should be through the door) and denying them privileges merely to anger them,(well damn, but the female paralegal said… gee, you look cute when you’re angry) a U.S. Marine said in a document made public on Friday.

    “Examples of this abuse included hitting detainees, (hopefully with a bat or worse) denying them water, and removal of privileges for no reason,” (I hate when this happens, I, to this day think my dearly departed parents, were guilty of the same damn thing) the Marine Corps sergeant stated in a sworn affidavit sent to the Pentagon’s inspector general’s office for investigation.

    Bless the lawyers..I don’t think Shakesphere meant this in the context that I do, or would...“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers”.

    “The fact that members of the U.S. Navy can sit around at a bar and laugh about beating detainees for no reason is outrageous (actually, it’s A HOOT, you should see it and hear it, when we really get shit-faced). We’re one step away from Abu Ghraib (Iraq prison abuse scandal) or possibly worse,”

    Like, gulags in North Korea…Huh?, Huh?

    The above was presented to you in partnership with al-Reuters

    Posted by El Cid on 2006 10 07 at 12:55 PM • permalink

  15. Something tells me our guys at Gitmo really liked “Fat Bastard.”

    Posted by ushie on 2006 10 07 at 01:12 PM • permalink

  16. “Examples of this abuse included hitting detainees…”

    Gee, guards in a prison are smacking around unruly prisoners (like in every prison on earth).

    Someone alert Amnesty International.

    Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 10 07 at 01:20 PM • permalink

  17. I have this picture in my head of some fat bastard galumphing over the hills of Afghanistan,desperately trying to hold on to his chocolate bars and an AK at the same time.
    While a drone circles lazily above…...

    Posted by Crusader rabbit on 2006 10 07 at 02:25 PM • permalink

  18. Just think of a future Guantanamo Cook Book

    Writen in Arabic preferably

    Posted by aussiemagpie on 2006 10 07 at 02:46 PM • permalink

  19. #17

    I have this picture in my head of some fat bastard galumphing over the hills of Afghanistan,desperately trying to hold on to his chocolate bars and an AK at the same time.
    While a drone circles lazily above…...

    ......about to launch an entirely new idea in the whole concept of fatwa at the fat bastard.

    Posted by geoff on 2006 10 07 at 02:59 PM • permalink

  20. I sense an opportunity for a reality TV show.

    Maybe it’s time for Gitmo Fear Factor.

    Posted by PW on 2006 10 07 at 03:10 PM • permalink

  21. Gitmo Fat Factor?

    Posted by ushie on 2006 10 07 at 04:24 PM • permalink

  22. The guards at Gitmo should be wary - these fat jihadis have obviously come up with a cunning plan to eat so much that they explode, like a deadly muslim Mr Creosote.

    Posted by EliotNess on 2006 10 07 at 04:40 PM • permalink

  23. Guess this puts the “fat” in fatwa, huh?

    Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2006 10 07 at 04:58 PM • permalink

  24. This is unacceptab;le behavior by the USA.  They should have drained these scum of whatever information they had, tried them before military tribunals, and hanged them for being illegal combattants years ago.

    Let’s do that now.  Better late than never.  And while they are waiting for their fates feed them MREs.

    Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 10 07 at 05:02 PM • permalink

  25. MREs!! yegods!! are there no depths of savagery the VRWC will not plumb?

    Posted by Crusader rabbit on 2006 10 07 at 05:24 PM • permalink

  26. #25.  MREs!! yegods!! are there no depths of savagery the VRWC will not plumb?

    Well, yes.  Nobody will go down below the fifteenth level of wronwright’s subbasement.  He refuses to say what’s down there, exactly, but it’s got to be pretty bad judging from the smell.  Thank goodness the meade is stored higher up.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 10 07 at 05:44 PM • permalink

  27. Wait, human rights groups say the fat bastards aren’t getting enough exercise?  Well, if we made them work out like Paco the Younger at Parris Island, wouldn’t that be against their right to sit around and watch tv?

    Posted by ushie on 2006 10 07 at 06:08 PM • permalink

  28. I’ve been down there, Rebecca—it’s all good stuff.
    Trust me.

    Posted by Crusader rabbit on 2006 10 07 at 06:31 PM • permalink

  29. (wipes mouth)

    Posted by Crusader rabbit on 2006 10 07 at 06:32 PM • permalink

  30. #22

    The guards at Gitmo should be wary - these fat jihadis have obviously come up with a cunning plan to eat so much that they explode, like a deadly muslim Mr Creosote.

    It’s only a WAFA thin…

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2006 10 07 at 06:55 PM • permalink

  31. Good one, #30. Beware the Talibang….

    Posted by EliotNess on 2006 10 07 at 07:27 PM • permalink

  32. #22 and #30

    This could be much more sinister than it at first appears. Have you noticed that Mr Creosote could easily pass for a “person of Middle Eastern appearance”?

    Has this ugly new terror weapon already been deployed?

    The Gitmo Graduate Fat Bastard Exloding Fatwa On Wine Pushing Infidel Restaurants.

    Posted by geoff on 2006 10 07 at 07:38 PM • permalink

  33. That’s it Geoff. Diabolical fat bastards! People are just going to have to avoid going to restaurants that have Talibangers and mash on the menu.

    Posted by EliotNess on 2006 10 07 at 07:58 PM • permalink

  34. And at 4200 calories, that makes them about 60% better nourished than the average inhabitant of the neighbouring People’s Paradise.

    Posted by Wally on 2006 10 07 at 08:13 PM • permalink

  35. Apparently even David Hicks is getting fat and pasty.  I thought the boys at Gitmo were supposed to be held in ‘cages’, open to the fierce Cuban summer?  I suppose Amnesty International will now be calling for tanning lamps to be installed over the interrogation La-Z-Boys.  I’m sure there’s a clause about tanning in the Geneva Convention.

    Posted by cuckoo on 2006 10 07 at 08:32 PM • permalink

  36. Now I understand what Amnesty International was on about.

    Guantanamo has become the Gulag of our times, entrenching the notion that people can be detained without recourse to the law.

    Seems Solzhenitsyn was full of crap all along.

    If the intellectuals in the plays of Chekhov who spent all their time guessing what would happen in 20, 30, or 40 years had been told that in 40 years interrogation by torture would be practiced in Russia; that prisoners would have their skulls squeezed within iron rings; that a human being would be lowered into an acid bath; that they would be trussed up naked to be bitten by ants and bedbugs; that a ramrod heated over a primus stove would be thrust up their anal canal (the “secret brand”); that a man’s genitals would be slowly crushed beneath the toe of a jackboot; and that, in the luckiest possible circumstances, prisoners would be tortured by being kept from sleeping for a week, by thirst, and by being beaten to a bloody pulp, not one of Chekhov’s plays would have gotten to its end because all the heroes would have gone off to insane asylums.

    The estimated 8-10 million victims of the real Gulag of our times? They died slowly from obesity related diseases. The Stalinists fed them to death.

    Just ask AI.

    Posted by geoff on 2006 10 07 at 09:57 PM • permalink

  37. So, when those people go on and on about U.S. policies “making more terrorists”, they’re really speaking in terms of tonnage?

    Posted by kiwinews on 2006 10 07 at 10:14 PM • permalink

  38. For your amusement and edification, a poem I learned by heart when I was a little girl ...

    Thomas was a little glutton
    Who took four times beef or mutton
    Then undid a lower button
    And consumed plum duff.

    He was told “You won’t get thinner
    “While you eat so much for dinner
    “And if you don’t take care some inner
    “Part of you will burst.”

    But he said “What does it matter?
    “Even if I do get fatter
    “Put more pudding on my platter
    “Let it do its worst!”

    Then one day (and little wonder)
    There came a report like thunder
    Doors and windows burst asunder
    And the cat had fits.

    As his anxious friends foreboded
    Dangerously overloaded
    Thomas had at length exploded
    And was blown to bits.

    His old nurse cried (much disgusted)
    “Just when I’ve swept and dusted
    “Drat that boy he’s gone and busted
    “Making such a mess.”

    And the awful task of peeling
    Thomas from the walls and ceiling
    Gave his family a feeling
    Of sincere distress.

    When a boy who so obese is
    As to scatter into pieces
    And the cause of his decease is
    Having overdined

    It’s rather hard to give a version
    Of the cause of his dispersion
    To the papers for insertion
    It must be ... refined.

    Any sorrowing relation
    Asked for an elucidation
    Of the awful detonation
    Was obliged to say:

    “Germans have not been to bomb us
    “That was only little Thomas
    “Who, alas, departed from us
    “In that noisy way.”

    Posted by Achillea on 2006 10 08 at 02:46 AM • permalink

  39. You must have had a childhood like the Baudelaires’.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 10 08 at 05:11 PM • permalink

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