{"id":290,"date":"2006-07-14T17:39:51","date_gmt":"2006-07-14T07:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=290"},"modified":"2006-07-14T19:12:06","modified_gmt":"2006-07-14T09:12:06","slug":"australi-information-minister-al-downer-says-detainees-doing-peachy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"Australi Information Minister Al-Downer says detainees &#8216;doing peachy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"The prisoners are very happy to be free of Saddam!\" alt=\"The prisoners are very happy to be free of Saddam!\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/mohammed_saeed_al-downer.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Australi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed Al-Downer reports that not only have detainees held at Guantanamo Bay always had their rights protected under the Geneva Conventions, but they&#8217;re actually having a jolly good time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why they&#8217;re all having a wonderful holiday down there in sunny, island Cuba! Why would they want trials or silly things like that, <em><strong>dah<\/strong><\/em>link?&#8221; mused the Minister. &#8220;I tried to speak to David Hicks the other day and unfortunately must have interrupted a rather well contested card game!&#8221; said Al-Downer. &#8220;He really couldn&#8217;t be bothered with little old me,&#8221; giggled the Minister.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Downer would not be drawn upon whether the card game Hicks was playing was in fact solitaire, due to approximately 4 years of Hicks being held in solitary confinement, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.getup.org.au\/campaign.asp?campaign_id=5\">without charge or trial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It could have been solitaire, it could have been Michigan Rummy, Mr Hicks was otherwise occupied and did not care to elaborate,&#8221; fumed Minister Al-Downer, who then minced away to catch a sale on fishnets down at <em>Frederick&#8217;s of Baghdad<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed Al-Downer reports that not only have detainees held at Guantanamo Bay always had their rights protected under the Geneva Conventions, but they&#8217;re actually having a jolly good time. &#8220;Why they&#8217;re all having a wonderful holiday down there in sunny, island Cuba! Why would they want trials or silly things like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}