Bloggers makes political statement and benefit military charity with new cookbook.

Washington, DC – (June 16, 2005) – The new "Gitmo Cookbook" puts allegations of prisoner torture at Guantanamo Bay in perspective. The cookbook contains the actual recipes and menus for the food served to the Gitmo detainees, as well as scaled-down versions suitable for family use so curious readers can taste for themselves.

Baked Tandouri Chicken Breast, Mustard-Dill Baked Fish, Lyonnaise Rice, and Fish Amandine are just a few of the recipes in the Gitmo Cookbook. They've all been tested, and are inexpensive, easy to make, and delicious. At the insistence of Congress, the U.S. military has gone to great lengths to ensure that these standard U.S. military meals have been sufficiently modified to comply with the strict requirements of halal, which require that one exclaim "in the name of God, most gracious, most merciful" while slicing through an animal's neck with a sharp blade. (Halal slaughter requires that the animal be conscious, while most other modern methods of slaughter involve stunning the animal before killing it.)

This cookbook highlights just how bend-over-backwards the US Military is in the treatment of the prisoners, who are considered the worst of the worst from al-Qaida and the Taliban. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said, "the kind of people held at Guantanamo include terrorist trainers, bomb makers, extremist recruiters and financiers, bodyguards of Osama bin Laden, and would-be suicide bombers."

"Our goal," says one of the cookbook's publishers, Laura Curtis, "is simply to support the troops - profits from the sale of the cookbooks will either go to a charity of the Gitmo soldiers choice or to the USO - and to make a point about moral equivalency. While America debates how to treat prisoners humanely while still getting the information we need to fight the War on Terror, our enemies have no such moral struggles. Is mishandling the Quran the same as beheading a man? We can't believe we even have to ask that question."

"The menus in the Gitmo Cookbook are a tangible example of the kind of treatment prisoners at Gitmo receive. The Nazis, Soviets, Japanese and Khmer Rouge never provided POW's with 2,000 calorie-a-day meal plans. To compare Gitmo to such gulags and concentration camps, as Illinois Senator Dick Durbin did, is not only a tremendous insult to the US Military, it's also an insult to everyone who truly did suffer at the hands of those regimes."

The Gitmo Cookbook is available for purchase online at www.gitmocookbook.com for $8.95. All profits go to charity.

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