Posted on 06/22/2005 9:38:54 AM PDT by ambrose
WASHINGTON -- His voice choking, Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois took to the Senate floor Tuesday and explicitly offered "heartfelt apologies" for comparing America's treatment of prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center to the atrocities of the Nazis, Soviets and other murderous regimes.
The apology came after a week of drumbeat criticism against Durbin, the assistant Democratic leader, from the White House, from Republican senators, from conservative activists and, finally, from Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, a fellow Democrat.
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Earlier in the day, however, Daley came down hard on his friend.
"I think it is a disgrace," the mayor declared when asked about Durbin's comments last week. "He is a good friend of mine, but I think it is a disgrace to say that any man or woman in the military acts like that."
Daley's son, Patrick, recently enlisted in the U.S. Army and now is in training.
"I believe our men and women in the military have a lot of common sense and passion and heart," the mayor said.
`So disrespectful'
"Read the history of the Holocaust," Daley said. "Nothing can compare with the Holocaust. . . . It is so disrespectful for all the victims of the Holocaust. You are talking about 6 million people intentionally killed. . . .
"How many did [Stalin] kill?" Daley asked rhetorically. "Twenty-two million. Then you take what took place in Cambodia, and we are trying to [compare] incidents in Guantanamo Bay, where nobody has been killed, no one has been seriously injured, to that?"
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Durbin's U.S.=Nazis remarks were representative of a big chunk, if not the majority, of the members of the Democratic Party.
They shouldn't be. He cried, but he didn't cave.
Rush is doing a great job on this subject right now. Hope everyone is listening.
Screw the DU. They are typical of the more deranged part of the Democratic Party. Which is probably the largest part.
Er, apoligizing for what you've done, means being sorry for what you've done...not sorry that you've been caught.
remove = removed
Dennis Prager is also discussing the "apology" right now (9:53 am PDT). Tune in to his show, if you can. Also is streaming online.
a) Turban Durbin did NOT apologize, and
b) If he had sincerely apologized, I would NOT have accepted it because that dick is a piece of lying, traitorous scum.
He can cry all he wants, it's not going to make our brave troops any safer. The damage has been done and can't be undone.
There is only one word to describe your headline: "bullshit".
Turbin needs to apologize to the Troops, to the Units guarding prisoners, and to the nation as a whole. Then he needs to resign.
Non-apology apologies (I'm sorry IF...) just don't cut it.
I wouldn't know..I got booted out of DU...I'm heartbroken
ap·o·lo·gi·a
n.
A formal defense or justification.
Two different things.
His apology isn't worth sh** and neither is he.
You are correct................
This is what needs to happen, but the Democrats are not
honorable people, therefore Durbin's treason will stand.
Note to me, I hope I'm wrong.
Crying. Him and Boinobitch. What a bunch of babies. Sniveling babies. Get them the hell out of there. There's no crying in politics.
Sorry, Dick, but I can't agree. Hitler's Holocaust only comes in at the "number 3" position. Stalin and Mao both were "bigger and better" when it came down to killing the citizens of their respective countries.
Interesting, though, that the top three perpetrators of citizen mass murder (which Rummel calls "democide") all did their dirty deeds in the name of "socialism".
Daley's no fool. He'd been told there was a petition
going around to recall Durbin, who's still considered
a hotshot among Chicago politicos. Daley wanted to
shut down that petition and let Durbin know who's
the REAL boss back home! Durbin was sent to D.C.
by the Chicago Boys. They're not going to let him
get too big for his britches and forget his backing.
Chicago, St. Louis, and Milwaukee are camps of the
old school in which the boys in the backroom with
their cigars pull all the strings. It was that way
in their fathers' day...and it's STILL that way in
the big city crime spas. The only real difference
today is they let the little housewife think SHE'S
steering the voting machine from her home and on her
block. It's the new form of mind control in the
burbs and innercity.
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