I support certain old senate traditions.
Posted on 06/17/2005 7:07:48 AM PDT by NonZeroSum
June 17th, 2005
WASHINGTON (APUPI) Amidst growing outrage at his comparisons of US troops to Pol Pot's regime, Nazis and Stalin's Gulag, Illinois Senator Richard Durbin backed off from his earlier comments today, reading from a prepared statement outside his office that he hadn't meant to directly compare the situations:
"I realize that my comments unjustly slandered many people in southeast Asia and other places who were simply trying to achieve a better society, and did not intend to compare what they did to the horrific atrocities that were occuring, and continue to occur, in Guantanamo. I wish to deeply apologize to those, like International A.N.S.W.E.R, who properly took umbrage at such an odious comparison. I hope that this apology will finally lay this issue to rest."
He refused to take any further questions.
Laura Ingraham nailed it. She said he'd weasel before Monday.
Doh!
Got me.
Too bad he doesn't mean it. Jagoff.
LOL.
This has to be satire. He apologized to Cambodia.
Um. You guys realize this is satire, right?
So9
Where's the apologies to the US Troops?
"I realize that my comments unjustly slandered many people in southeast Asia and other places who were simply trying to achieve a better society, and did not intend to compare what they did to the horrific atrocities that were occuring, and continue to occur, in Guantanamo."
Satire?
Fat chance you rat bas-turd!
I support certain old senate traditions.
Where's the apologies to the US Troops?
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You won't hear one -- not from this maggot or his communist ilk. Apology. What a joke -- this is the standard commie modus operandi now, stand up in front of America and say it SO THE STINKING MSM WILL PRINT IT -- then issue an apology.
This is just the beginning.
Duh....This has to be some joke.
"horrific atrocities that were occuring, and continue to occur, in Guantanamo." Even as he apologizes he sticks his foot further into his mouth. What atrocities of any kind have occurred at Guantanamo? Of these, if Durbin can name any, which are "horrific?" Has anyone died? Lost limbs? Had bones broken? Been beaten? The people held at Gitmo are prisoners of war. They were intent on killing our soldiers, and some may, in fact, have done so. I tire of Durbin and his ilk trying to advise the military (whom they loathe) about how to do their job. Sen. Durbin, may I suggest that you just STFU for a while?
Of course I do.
Funny! Also tragic.
I wonder how Durbin would feel if I said something like "the contemptuous sentiments behind Durbin's remarks make me think about that sc*mbag who fragged two of his fellow soldiers last week. But I'm not comparing or equating the two . . . "
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