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Steve King: “I reflect upon a trip that I made down to Guantanamo Bay... they had already released those that could be released. And…”

On the recordNovember 30, 2010
I reflect upon a trip that I made down to Guantanamo Bay... they had already released those that could be released. And the rest of them were a danger to Americans, a danger to free people everywhere, and a danger if they were released to come back, and as Mr. Lamborn said, to attack Americans again, but also NATO troops and other people that represent the free world. And as we are looking at that facility, oh, it's a pretty wonderful facility if you want to be in a jail and be a Muslim, for example. And you walk into these cells, first of all the temperature is set at 75 degrees. Seventy-five. My house is a lot warmer than that in Iowa in the summertime. Because 75 degrees, they argued, was their cultural temperature.
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Steve King
Republican · Iowa
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Nov 30, 2010

Editor's note · Context

The speaker discusses his observations from a trip to Guantanamo Bay and the conditions of the detainees.

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