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Revenge of the Iraqi detainees: Brett Favre jokes

Nov 20, 2009, 12:06 PM EST

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You think you know how to torture, America? Waterboarding is for schoolchildren. Detainees locked in an internment camp in Iraq are mocking their captors — members of the Wisconsin National Guard — with Brett Favre jokes.
Evil bastards!
It all started when the National Guardsmen began decorating their trucks and other areas of Camp Cropper with Packers colors recently. The prisoners picked up on it, did some research (Wiraqipedia?), and began with the Favre barbs. What goes around comes around, I suppose. I blame Dick Cheney.

“They know Favre by name,” said First Lieutenant Tim Boehnen, who is from New Richmond, Wis.

“One of the big words they know now is shenanigan. They’ll constantly talk about ‘Favre shenanigans,’ ‘He’s so good for the Vikings,’ and ‘The Packers have got to really feel bad about that one.’ “

According to Boehnen, it started when troops there started decorating their camp in Packers colors.

“They obviously then started up the conversations, and started talking about Brett Favre. They soon learned about Favre going to the Vikings, and things just started going downhill from there.”

Boehnen said soccer is the main sport that detainees pay attention to there, so there’s not exactly a Vikings fan club chapter in Iraq.

“They’ll hear guards talking about it, and then they pick up a lot of stuff from that, too,” said Boehnen. “They’re very crafty. They learn different stuff from different ways.”

Once they learn a little more about football, they can start increasing the pressure: Like calling for Matt Flynn to replace Aaron Rodgers, or making fun of cheese.
And wait’ll they learn that Joseph McCarthy is from Wisconsin. Oops. Do they have Internet access?
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Detainees at Camp in Iraq Use Favre To Tease Wisconsin Soldiers [620 WTMJ]

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  1. Bob - Nov 20, 2009 at 2:49 PM

    How is it that these scumbags have access to the internet to begin with?

  2. Steve - Nov 20, 2009 at 2:55 PM

    Obama loves terrorists, so he probably ordered the military to provide them with internet, HDTV, cell phones, and other amenities.

  3. Dee - Nov 20, 2009 at 2:55 PM

    Bob,
    It’s because we have mastered the art of torture. The Internet is bad for them.

  4. rp - Nov 20, 2009 at 2:59 PM

    Bob, I only see two scumbag around here…. That’d be you and Steve. They’re just detainees. Many of them have not even been charged with a crime. I thought I lived in the land of the free? You make me sick.

  5. Mariann Pepitone - Nov 20, 2009 at 2:59 PM

    You are so right they are scumbugs. They are uneducated, abnormal eaters and are not clean. There country is filthy. Yes, how did they get access to a computer.

  6. Mariann Pepitone - Nov 20, 2009 at 3:00 PM

    You are so right they are scumbugs. They are uneducated, abnormal eaters and are not clean. There country is filthy. Yes, how did they get access to a computer.

  7. rp sucks terrorist c0ck - Nov 20, 2009 at 3:02 PM

    They commit acts of terror and have attempted or succeeded in killing American troops overseas.
    And you want to whine for them? I hope you get cancer.

  8. John - Nov 20, 2009 at 3:03 PM

    Yep, Obama loves terroists. Just like the Bush family loves Saudi’s and the bin Ladin family. I bet Steve is some religious nut who actually believes in a guy name jesus and angeles and moses walking on water. Dummy!

  9. JustAThought - Nov 20, 2009 at 3:08 PM

    The article is making a joke about access to the Internet. They do not have access. The prison guard makes it clear that they are simply picking up information by observing the environment (Packer’s decorations) and listening to conversations between the guards.

  10. John in Nashville - Nov 20, 2009 at 3:08 PM

    The stupidity you folks come up with …

  11. Red_Dog - Nov 20, 2009 at 3:08 PM

    your intellegence is showing NOT.

  12. Florida727 - Nov 20, 2009 at 3:10 PM

    John, when you die, dress for warm weather. Come to think of it, dress for EXTREMELY warm weather. By the way, Jesus is with a capital “J”, angels don’t have multiple “e”s in them, and Moses… ahh forget it. You’re not intelligent enough to appreciate when someone dies on a cross for your sins anyway. Wonder if they’ll have the Internet in hell? You’ll be able to read online Bible passages and see what you’re missing. Check our Revelations some time…

  13. Florida727 - Nov 20, 2009 at 3:11 PM

    John, when you die, dress for warm weather. Come to think of it, dress for EXTREMELY warm weather. By the way, Jesus is with a capital “J”, angels don’t have multiple “e”s in them, and Moses… ahh forget it. You’re not intelligent enough to appreciate when someone dies on a cross for your sins anyway. Wonder if they’ll have the Internet in hell? You’ll be able to read online Bible passages and see what you’re missing. Check our Revelations some time…

  14. Brutha G - Nov 20, 2009 at 3:11 PM

    Actually, Bob (is that your name or what you do with your buddy Steve?) you have no idea why they’re detained. I’m guessing you and your wingnut buddies have never served a day. Now, if you want to talk about terrorists how about wingnut Tim McVeigh, or wingnut Eric Rudolf, or the wingnut who shot up that Unitarian Church, or the wingnut who shot that doctor, or the wingnut who shot up the Holocaust museum, or that wingnut who shot the cops in Pittsburg because he thought Obama would take his guns, or the wingnut…

  15. rp - Nov 20, 2009 at 3:11 PM

    “I hope you get cancer.”
    Seriously, because I believe in freedom and due process you’re wishing cancer upon me? Be careful with your intentions, my friend. It comes back ten-fold.

  16. Pathetic - Nov 20, 2009 at 3:11 PM

    Not any more uneducated than you are. “They are abnormal eaters and not clean?” You know that from which one of the following 1) random guessing, 2) looking up the information nowhere, or 3) pure stupidity? Oh wait, all three apply.

  17. J M Hoffman - Nov 20, 2009 at 3:13 PM

    Yes, yes, my right wing friends! How dare anyone accused of being a terrorist be allowed to speak. They should remain hooded and gagged until their torture sessions begin so that they can name the names of other innocent people who we can then torture into admitting to terrorism based on the color of their skin.
    For those of you who are more factually inclined, the article never said they had been given internet access, but made joking references to it. The prisoners seem to have learned about Green Bay from their guards, who came from Green Bay. Obama’s socialist plot didn’t have anything to do with it.
    I’d rather that detainees who are eventually freed after trial left our prisons with a knowledge of football rather than a burning desire to avenge the barbaric torture they suffered, but thats just me.

  18. WTC - Nov 20, 2009 at 3:13 PM

    John #8, you are a sad little man, Moses didn’t walk on water, that was Jesus. Before you start throwing out insults make sure you get your facts stratight! You sound very angry and un-happy, I will pray for you. God Bless!

  19. eboy - Nov 20, 2009 at 3:14 PM

    RP you are correct about Bob and Steve, but now Mariann wants in the club. these folks really belong back in Nazi Germany – Conducting wars of imperialism and executing people based on their ethnicity or religious affiliations. Perfect fit and I’m sure if the USA was ever occupied that these same people plus one more who is fixated on sucking would be the first ones out there to suck on the appendages of the occupying forces – that is what they worship. Bigger idiots I have never seen.

  20. NJ - Nov 20, 2009 at 3:14 PM

    You nuts. The author was using SARCASM! The only “net” they have there is the inter-barbed-wire net. I have a relative guarding down there and believe me, they WISHED they could be back in Abu-Ghraib. Putting Fauve down is the closest thing they get to irritating their guards.

  21. lalalala - Nov 20, 2009 at 3:15 PM

    I hope you get painful cancer, and have treatment that doesn’t work, making your life miserable and pointless (which it already is). Viewing acts of terror in black and white means you’re not any more intelligent than they are, which means the only difference between you and them is luckily being born into this country. Not a whole lot to brag about.

  22. David - Nov 20, 2009 at 3:15 PM

    I can’t believe that is any amount of discomfort over Bret Favre barbs.
    Are they not all grown ups?
    If they can’t take verbal abuse from a prisoner behind bars, they don’t belong in a grown up gig.
    If they are are Grown ups, then learn a life lesson and don’t whine.
    This is easy. there are much harder things in life.
    .

  23. Kenneth - Nov 20, 2009 at 3:16 PM

    Mariann – in your rant accusing them of being “uneducated” you used “there” instead of “their”. Get it right moron.

  24. Dan - Nov 20, 2009 at 3:17 PM

    Why does everyone assume the detainees had internet access? Nowhere in this story was that statement made. Learn to read the whole story and not just the bits in quotes (“wiraqipedia”).
    Wow…

  25. Reno - Nov 20, 2009 at 3:18 PM

    Mariann Pepitone you know that the same thing they said against the native Americans and African’s when the first whites came, they are uneducated, abnormal eaters, and dirty when you demonize an entire culture the messes feel better when the stronger of the countries starts to kill, in slave and take over a land but sorry to say its not always for the best why dont you go over there meet some of the people before you bad mouth them walk a day in there life before you say kill them all

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