Coddling detainees at Gitmo, part gazillion; (Don't read if you have anger problems)

The Community-Organizer-in-Chief absolutely excels in one thing:  If he can't get what he wants directly, he's great at finding a way to accomplish his goal by indirect means.

Case in point:  Obummer promised his lefty/Dem supporters that during the first six months of his presidency he'd close the prison at Guantanamo. Unfortunately no one wanted the Islamic jihadist inmates transferred to their state, and Obozo wasn't willing to let the military try 'em.  Nor was he willing to take the political heat of just turning 'em loose and sending 'em all back to their native countries, since they had this funny tendency to go right back to trying to kill Americans--even though all the detainees were all so totally innocent when they were captured, dontcha know.

So Obozo put the word out to the Pentagon:  Spoil the hell out of the "detainees," regardless of the cost.  (Link is to a badly-written article in the NY Post but don't hold it against 'em.)

So the detainees got a $750,000 soccer field, a 10,000-book library of Islamic books (administered by a Muslim librarian, of course); even their own clerics to preach to them in Arabic.  And of course every detainee is issued a Koran, paperback or hardback--along with a little hammock to keep their holy book from touching the ground when not in use.

And of course they got lots and lots of food--specially prepared to Islamic religious standards.  In fact they ate so much great food that they were gaining weight (poor darlings).

Lots of weight.

Now, most normal folks wouldn't regard this as a problem a prison would bother trying to solve.  But the Islamophilic civilians at the Pentagon apparently decided this weight problem was so damned awful that they took funds away from military operations and ordered a bunch of exercise equipment for the detainees.

You can't make this stuff up.  But wait, it gets even better:

As you could have guessed, the detainees complained that the equipment was made in the USA, and petulantly refused to use it.

At that point if I'd been the military commander at Gitmo I would have told the detainees in no uncertain terms to fuck off, and put any detainee who was overweight on 900 calories a day--for their own good, of course.  And I would have dared Obozo to fire me for that initiative.  But I'm pretty hard-ass about crap like that.

Instead, the civilian-run Defense Department ordered that the American-made fitness equipment be replaced with equipment made in Muslim countries.  At Lord knows what cost.

But of course all this expense is a win-win for Barry, since all the expenses at Gitmo come from the defense budget.  So money he forces the DoD to spend on hammocks for Korans and soccer fields and Islamic meals and Islamic fitness equipment (and and and...) is money the Defense Department can't use for training or *military* equipment.

If Americans complain about the huge sum spent to run the facility--reportedly $800,000 per detainee per year--Barry can say "Hey, I tried to close it right after I first took office but those obstructionist Republicans wouldn't let me!"  (Doesn't matter that Democrat congresscritters were equally opposed to closing Gitmo.)

At that point it becomes "win-win-win."  "Any problems we have are entirely--say it with me: entirely--the fault of George Bush and the Republicans in congress."

Hoo-eee this guy is good.  Compared to Barry, Huey Long was an amateur.  (Bonus to anyone under 40 and not from Louisiana who knows who that was.)