Miss Universe goes to Gitmo

Yeah, I know, it looks like this blog is turning into the inside of my wall locker when I lived in the barracks, but it’s not really. I ran across a story about Miss Universe visiting Guantanamo Bay prison, and I just thought it was odd. The story was at the Army Times and written by Associated Press.

Miss Universe and Miss USA have taken a firsthand look at the U.S. prison for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay.

The beauty pageant winners took part in a VIP tour to entertain American military personnel at the prison in Cuba.

The article also links to Dayana Mendoza’s blog where she writes;

We visited the Detainees camps and we saw the jails, where they shower, how the recreate themselves with movies, classes of art, books. It was very interesting.

I really appreciate Miss Universe and Miss USA visiting the troops at Guantanamo – more folks should do the same. She ought to watch herself, though. She has to return to Venezuela some time and Hugo Chavez is going to be pretty upset if she doesn’t take time to bash the imperialist Americans.

She also wrote;

I didn’t want to leave, it was such a relaxing place, so calm and beautiful.

Ya know, Dayana, that can be arranged. It makes me wonder what the terrorists being held there are complaining about. But, seriously, thanks for visiting our troops and for not making some sort of political statement.

Added: The Jawa Report has the outrage from the Left that she didn’t turn her trip into an anti-US rant (I didn’t know Venezuelans could be Republicans). Don Surber and Jules Crittenden have the New York Times article.

Category: Hugo Chavez, Support the troops