This Will Make the Moonbats Crazy

The frothing looneys will blow a gasket when they read this:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Halliburton Co. unit will build a new $30 million detention facility and security fence at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the United States is holding about 520 foreign terrorism suspects, the Defense Department announced on Thursday.

The announcement comes the same week that Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld defended the jail after U.S. lawmakers said it had created an image problem for the United States.

Critics have decried the indefinite detention of Guantanamo detainees, whom the United States has denied rights accorded under the Geneva Conventions to prisoners of war. The prison was called "the gulag of our times" in a recent Amnesty International report.

I hope one of the amenities is a flushless toilet that is too small to hold a Koran.

In somewhat related news, polls show that Bush's popularity is sinking:

Increasingly pessimistic about Iraq and skeptical about President Bush's plan for Social Security, Americans are in a season of political discontent, giving Mr. Bush one of the lowest approval ratings of his presidency and even lower marks to Congress, according to the New York Times/CBS News Poll.

Anyone who's been paying attention knows that Bush doesn't give a damn about polls. Of the last five Chief Executives we've had, W. has policies that he wants to see implemented and polls be damned. That is what is known as leadership.