Let's play soccer...AT GITMO!!!

[newtothegame]

GOP lawmakers criticize $750,000 Gitmo soccer field



The price tag of $744,000 is significant. A Pentagon spokesman said anything over $749,000 needs congressional approval. So far Democrats have been silent on the issue. The ACLU, Human Rights Watch (http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/human-rights-watch.htm#r_src=ramp) and Amnesty International, who advocate for detainee rights, had no comment.
I like how the project came in just under the requirement for congressional approval...lol

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/03/02/gop-lawmakers-criticize-750000-guantanamo-bay-soccer-field/?test=latestnews#ixzz1o2n3Xu75

By the way, didn't Obama promise rto close this within his first year?? Now they get a 3/4 of a million dollar soccer field.....Booyah!!!

[nijinski]

This is just sick ! Throughout many regions school athletic budgets have been
slashed and parents have to dole out money for their kids to partipate in sports. How could our government allow this for detainees?

[FantasticDan]

The Admiral in charge of the facility explained the rationale, but of course faux-rage pundits and posters know better..

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/01/guantanamo-soccer-field_n_1314836.html?ref=world

[lsbets]

The Admiral in charge of the facility explained the rationale, but of course faux-rage pundits and posters know better..

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/01/guantanamo-soccer-field_n_1314836.html?ref=world

Thought Obama was going to close it right away, that it was an embarrassment to America?

Oh, wait, campaign promises. Lying Obama. Nevermind.

[HUSKER55]

i am having a slow day. The labor should be done by the inhabitants cause what else do they have to do. the land we already control.

That fence did not cost 775000 dollars. Menards has it on sale

[Tom]

The Admiral in charge of the facility explained the rationale, but of course faux-rage pundits and posters know better..

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/01/guantanamo-soccer-field_n_1314836.html?ref=world

Yes, we do know better.
We should probably be executing most of them, and those that we don't should be under a "Niagara" of interrogation.

[newtothegame]

The Admiral in charge of the facility explained the rationale, but of course faux-rage pundits and posters know better..

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/01/guantanamo-soccer-field_n_1314836.html?ref=world

Obviously, you didnt read my two comments as the OP.....
here, let me try again. NOTICE THE PRICE CAME IN 5,000 dollars less then would require congressional approval????

And how about GITMO being closed within twelve months of OBAMA getting into office........

You do have reading comprehension problems!!

[Tom]

Obama lied.
Again.

[PhantomOnTour]

Put an IED in the soccer ball and give 'em a dose of their own meds.

[Tom]

Put an IED in the soccer ball and give 'em a dose of their own meds.

Can WE play, too?

[Striker]

Maybe somebody should show them how most of South America plays soccer. In the streets and on dirt, no showcase soccer facilities are needed.

[Native Texan III]

We buy most everything that Communist China makes yet we embargo little Communist Cuba. If we had brains we would be even more dangerous.

"Woods said the cost of the recreation yard was high because every piece of equipment has to be imported by barge or plane to the remote base in southeast Cuba. The United States maintains an economic embargo against Cuba, its unwilling host, to pressure its communist government.

"That's probably the biggest misperception and lack of understanding of the expense of doing things down here," Woods said. "It's unlike any place else in the world mainly because we don't have the opportunity to capitalize on the local economy."

[cj's dad]

My private Catholic high school put in a new lighted astro turf soccer field at a cost of 400K 5 years ago. American tax $$$ are paying for this field at Gitmo at 750K.

R U Kidding me ??