Chris Arendt - Assclown Extraordinaire and IVAW Member

Posted By Blackfive

Over at This Ain't Hell, TSO deconstructs a former Gitmo soldier's interviews to the BBC and in the book "Winter Soldier"...Arendt talks of torturing the inmates, weird shavings, etc.  There's so much BS in this kid's story that I have to stop.  Just go to TAH and check it out. 

Here's a taste of a classic TSO take down:

...So let’s look at the rest of his testimony.  Mind you that Chris was an E4.

“I served on the blocks for two months as a prison guard. My duties were to feed detainees and dispense toilet paper…A consequence of having detainees is that they are human beings and also have stories. [Ed: No shit?] I talked with them about those stories, which led to my being taken off the blocks. I was sent to work in the Detention Operations Center as the escort control for the last eight months of my tour. I managed the movements of every detainee in Camp Delta. I did this on twelve- to fourteen- hour shifts, and rotated with a very small crew of other specialists.”

Let me see if I get this straight. With all the officers, interrogators, OGA groups and NCO’s at Gitmo, they entrusted the running of this camp to a 19 year old Specialist who got shit-canned from his job dispensing toilet paper? Is there anyone reading this now that buys into this? Anyone? Is it more likely that Arendt ran Camp Delta, or that a Yeti and Barbra Streisand spawned Amy Winehouse? I would say that each of those stories is equally believable...

Maybe we should free and relocate the inmates that Arendt talked to right next door to his place in Michigan.  He's going on a speaking tour in the UK with some former inmates.  I'm sure they'd have great stories to share. 

IVAW is not just for Iraq vets anymore.  If you handed out toilet paper or spoons to Al Qaeda, you're in.

Update:  The media seems to be cutting him some slack however...

Update 2:  How about David Letterman's Top Ten?

From the Home Office at Blackfive, David Letterman's Top Ten Requirements for Membership in the IVAW:

10.  Handing out toilet paper to terrorist prisoners while bonding with them.

9.   Getting $hit canned at reception station before getting to Basic and pretending to be a Ranger who shot women and children.

8...

Put the rest in the comments.

Update 3: Another soldier who performed the same duties as Arendt in Gitmo speaks out.

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Chris Arendt - Assclown Extraordinaire and IVAW Member

Over at This Ain't Hell, TSO deconstructs a former Gitmo soldier's interviews to the BBC and in the book "Winter Soldier"...Arendt talks of torturing the inmates, weird shavings, etc.  There's so much BS in this kid's story that I have to stop.  Just go to TAH and check it out. 

Here's a taste of a classic TSO take down:

...So let’s look at the rest of his testimony.  Mind you that Chris was an E4.

“I served on the blocks for two months as a prison guard. My duties were to feed detainees and dispense toilet paper…A consequence of having detainees is that they are human beings and also have stories. [Ed: No shit?] I talked with them about those stories, which led to my being taken off the blocks. I was sent to work in the Detention Operations Center as the escort control for the last eight months of my tour. I managed the movements of every detainee in Camp Delta. I did this on twelve- to fourteen- hour shifts, and rotated with a very small crew of other specialists.”

Let me see if I get this straight. With all the officers, interrogators, OGA groups and NCO’s at Gitmo, they entrusted the running of this camp to a 19 year old Specialist who got shit-canned from his job dispensing toilet paper? Is there anyone reading this now that buys into this? Anyone? Is it more likely that Arendt ran Camp Delta, or that a Yeti and Barbra Streisand spawned Amy Winehouse? I would say that each of those stories is equally believable...

Maybe we should free and relocate the inmates that Arendt talked to right next door to his place in Michigan.  He's going on a speaking tour in the UK with some former inmates.  I'm sure they'd have great stories to share. 

IVAW is not just for Iraq vets anymore.  If you handed out toilet paper or spoons to Al Qaeda, you're in.

Update:  The media seems to be cutting him some slack however...

Update 2:  How about David Letterman's Top Ten?

From the Home Office at Blackfive, David Letterman's Top Ten Requirements for Membership in the IVAW:

10.  Handing out toilet paper to terrorist prisoners while bonding with them.

9.   Getting $hit canned at reception station before getting to Basic and pretending to be a Ranger who shot women and children.

8...

Put the rest in the comments.

Update 3: Another soldier who performed the same duties as Arendt in Gitmo speaks out.

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