Surprise . . .  surprise !  Bush was saying he needs 21,000 for “his Surge”.  Later he amended that to 28,000.  Well here they are ^^^^^^^^^ the SURGE he’s been talking about.  If they surge and “surge” successfully; they will be rewarded with American Citizenship.  There is reason to his madness.

Bush now considers refugees or immigrants as…prisoners of war so he tries to put them in new Gulag. How do these immigrants feel when they’re in exile in their homeland ?

HELLOOOO———- This is a trick and a lie. I’ll bet these are the same structures they were planning on using as high dollar “accomodations”  and “courthouse” for “journalists, lawyers & G-men , that they announced about a month ago. That announcement went over like a lead balloon and now they’re putting a new name on it to fraudulantly get their way. Typical self-serving , the public & logic be damned , neo-cons.

Re: I’m so confused. Comment #54678 by Richard
No need to be confused. As usual, it’s all about money and power and names ...

George H. Walker (Jr. and Sr.) Grandfather and Uncle of George Herbert Walker Bush (former president) on Mothers side. Great-Grandfather and Great Uncle of George Walker Bush (president Bush)

The Walkers were heavily invested in Cuba and the rest of the Caribbean, a hotbed of intelligence activity from the 1950’s on.

Walker had longstanding ties to Cuba and served as a director of seven related companies during the mid-and late 1920’s and early 1930’s: the Cuba Company, the Cuban Railroad, Cuban-Dominican Sugar, Barahona Sugar, Cuba Distilling, Sugar Estates of Oriente, and Atlantic Fruit and Sugar. Prominent New York investment bankers did not undertake such commitments lightly; Walker was centrally involved with the island through three major industries: sugar, (rum) distilling, and a major railroad that served these enterprises (and became a symbol of yanqui power.)”

“In the 1930’s and early 1940’, George H.W. Bush’s favorite uncle, Herbie—George Herbert Walker, Jr.—took over directorships of several of these Cuban-Dominican sugar companies, which ultimately merged into West Indies Sugar in 1942.

“Uncle Herbie” Walker was deeply involved with the reorganization of George H.W. Bush’s Zapata Oil—itself heavily involved in the Caribbean. “His uncle would have been angry in 1959, when the new leftist Castro regime announced that it would nationalize the holdings of the U.S. sugar companies. Castro had launched his revolution several years earlier in eastern Cuba’s sugar-and-rum-centered Oriente Province, and some of the American owners of sugar mills and estates had contributed funds in the hope of moderating his movement. Oriente-based West Indies Sugar had been a particular target of rebel levies and depredations.

Coincidentally, 1959 was the year when Uncle Herbie helped to finance the reorganization of Zapata by which the offshore drilling rigs—at least one operating near Cuba—became independent under Walker-Bush control. George H. Walker Jr. must have been even angrier in 1960 when Castro nationalized the West Indies Sugar Company, of which he had been a director until 1959. Infuriated by Castro’ sugar estate seizures, the U.S. government withdrew its recognition of Cuba and launched an economic embargo in January 1961. Three months later came the Bay of Pigs invasion.”
http://ftrsummary.blogspot.com/2004/03/ftr-445-bush-family-intelligence.html

The CIA codename for the Bay of Pigs invasion of April 1961 was “Operation Zapata”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapata_Corporation#Bay_of_Pigs

And the rest, as they say, is history.

Why wouldn’t that be a supreme irony? Cubans trying to escape to the “land of freedom” get captured and imprisoned IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY! By a foreign power, no less! Imprisoned in your own land by foreigners who were supposed to grant you freedom… This is so insane that you couldn’t make it up!

Excuse me, Miami Herald. We don’t know those held at Guantanamo are “terrorism suspects” because they haven’t been charged with a crime and probably won’t be under the Military Commissions Act (see “No Judicial Recourse for Detainees” on this Web site)—unless the U.S. Supreme Court does something, of course. We just know they’re detainees.

Back to Cuba: I went to high school and college during the Cold War, but long ago forgot why the United States is so obsessed with Castro and the backwater hell hole he rules. Can someone with knowledge of the political nuances at work bring us up to date on this apparent anachronism of post-Cold War foreign policy?

Incidentally, the two majority judges in the Guantanamo case said that habeas corpus does not apply to foreign nationals not on U.S. soil, and that the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay is a leased property under Cuban sovereignty.”

I’m so confused!