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Saturday, March 03, 2012

GOP lawmakers criticize $750,000 Gitmo soccer field

At least four House members and one staffer from the Senate appropriations committee have pushed the Department of Defense for answers on the new soccer field for detainees at Camp 6 in Guantanamo Bay.

Fox News first reported on the $750,000 controversial project Tuesday.

Congressman Dennis A. Ross, R-Fla., is introducing the "NO FIELD ACT" that would penalize the Department of Defense and cut the 2013 budget by $744,000 -- the price tag for the Camp 6 soccer field.

"This may be the poster child for this election as to what's wrong with this country," Ross told Fox News in an interview from Tampa.

"We're talking about a significant amount of money spent for terrorist detainees at a camp that we are told is supposed to be closed," he said.

And Ross said the message from voters was clear. "I have heard from my constituents, 'please tell us this is not true,' you're asking us to contribute and is this the fair share the president is talking about?"

On the House floor this week, Congressman Ted Poe, R-Tx., underscored, what he portrayed, as the lunacy of the project


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2 comments:

  1. This is a terrible waste of taxpayer's money. These are terrorist responsible for the deaths of many Americans.Including the destruction of the twin towers on 9-11. I would like to know who aurthorized this. Was it Obama or just one of his cronies. I believe this is going to rea;ly infuriate the American taxpayer. These people again are terrorist. They should be put to death not given soccer fields and such. I have worked in a stste prison and we don't have soccer fields or football fields. We just give them a soccer ball or football and say go to it on the grass during recreation time. I don't see why they had to have an expensive soccer field just put up goals and throw them a ball. That would have been enough for them to get their exercise. What a stupid waste. We really need to find out who was behind this atrocity.

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  2. And Panetta didn't have a clue this was going on, even though any expendeture of 749,000 by the Pentagon is supposed to have Congressional approval.

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