DFU SONG: Thank You Girl (al-Qaeda sings -- thank you DICK)

DFU SONGS | 6-2005 | Lyrics, Doug from Upland

[doug from upland]

MIDI - THANK YOU GIRL

We want you to know that we appreciate your work
Do not pay attention if they're calling you a jerk
Al Qaeda's proud to say we thank you, Dick...thank you, Dick

We jumped up and down when you spoke on the Senate floor
Anyone would think that you were serving as our whore
Al Qaeda's proud to say we thank you, Dick...thank you, Dick

Thank you, Dick, because you've proven you're a good pal
You have been successful hurting your troops' morale
Al Qaeda's proud to say we thank you, Dick...thank you, Dick

Al-Jazeera's spread your words throughout the Middle East
When you visit us, we'll treat you to a big goat feast
Al Qaeda's proud to say we thank you, Dick...thank you, Dick

[doug from upland]

[doug from upland]

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DANGEROUS LANGUAGE FROM A LEADING DEMOCRAT -Dick's providing Al Jazeera headline news
Mobile Register ^ | 6/18/05


Posted on 06/18/2005 6:27:39 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection


THE RHETORIC from top national Democrats continues to deteriorate so that it now has fallen beneath cheap shots, beneath demagoguery, all the way to the realm of the dangerously unhinged.

Dangerous, because the Al Jazeera Arab-language news station has been posting the remarks to stir up even more anti-American fervor in the Middle East.

The most recent remarks at issue, and the most outrageous, came Tuesday night from Illinois' Sen. Richard Durbin, the second-ranking Democrat in Congress' upper chamber. Speaking on the Senate floor about the Guantanamo Bay prison camp for terrorists, Mr. Durbin began by reading an e-mail from a FBI agent, and then said: "If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime -- Pol Pot or others -- that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that is not the case. This was the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners."

So now American soldiers are being likened to Nazis and genocidal maniacs -- and by a U.S. senator, no less. And on what basis? Not much. Not one single verified account of torture there. A few copies of the Quran accidentally allowed to get wet. Some other examples, perhaps, of prisoners in a hot place being treated like -- well, like prisoners in a hot place.

But Pol Pot? A gulag? Those are horrendous comparisons.

Yet when a host of Republican senators, including Alabama's Jeff Sessions, criticized Sen. Durbin's remarks, Mr. Durbin took to the Senate floor not to apologize, but to defend and repeat his comments.

Then the Democrats' official Senate leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, had the gall to blame the flap on "the noise machine of the far right" and called it "all a distrac tion by the White House."

Democratic Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Joseph Lieberman, given several opportunities to refute Sen. Durbin's remarks, refused to comment.

Sen. Reid, however, cannot so easily blame Republicans for a controversy of his party's own making, especially since he, too, defended Sen. Durbin.

And it wasn't just Republicans complaining. The commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, John Furgess, said, "The senator was totally out of line for even thinking such thoughts, and we demand he apologize to every man and woman who has ever worn the uniform of our country."

The biggest paper in Sen. Durbin's home state, the Chicago Tribune, blasted Illinois' "cover-

age-hungry senior senator" for the comments and noted he had "displaced the ever-present microphone long enough to insert his foot in his mouth."

What's worse is that the Durbin remarks have become par-for-the-course among the increasingly shrill Democratic leadership. Party chairman Howard Dean, for instance, says something outlandish just about every week. Sen. Ted Kennedy has in recent years accused the Bush administration of "bribery" of foreign leaders.

And in 2004, Democratic candidates, senators and former senators have accused Republicans or Bush of "reopening Saddam's torture chambers," of "viciousness," of being "the most dishonest president since Richard Nixon," of being "the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen," of running a "right-wing slime machine," of being "a phony through and through," and of having "declared war on the middle class."

Politics is one thing. But some of these statements are beneath politics, indeed beneath contempt.

And when they inspire foreign terrorists, as Sen. Durbin's may do, they border on blood libel.