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  • Karl Rove offends liberals - Bozel pins the tail on liberal media flailing against President Bush

    06/29/2005 12:30:01 PM PDT · by OESY · 18 replies · 1,349+ views
    Townhall.com ^ | June 29, 2005 | Brent Bozell
    Karl Rove proved a very salient point last week in his speech to the Conservative Party of New York. The media's reflexes still work. After most in the "news" media spent a week steadfastly ignoring Sen. Richard Durbin's (D-Ill.) hideous statement comparing U.S. detainees to the killing fields of Pol Pot, Rove said liberals were weak on terrorism, and zoom! Rove's remarks rocketed to the front page and with that, the top of the political buzz. The New York Times set the table by quoting only a few sentences in which Rove explained that conservatives saw Sept. 11 and knew...
  • Durbin Apology - Not Accepted! - (None Dare Call It Treason! - shameless, treacherous Dems!)

    06/27/2005 8:55:05 AM PDT · by CHARLITE · 44 replies · 1,150+ views
    NEWSMAX.COM ^ | JUNE 27, 2005 | JOAN SWIRSKY
    Illinois Senator Richard J. Durbin – the minority Whip and second most powerful Democrat in the United States Senate – has now joined other Democrat apologists who think (and hope) that Americans will forget what he said last week when he compared the U.S. military's treatment of al-Qaida enemy combatants in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the treatment doled out by mass-murderers Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot, whose regimes in Germany, Russia and Cambodia, respectively, wantonly slaughtered tens of millions of innocent people. For the record, approximately nine million people, including six million Jews, died in Hitler's concentration camps; nearly three...
  • Mugabe Pledges Building Plan, Scorns Western 'demonization'

    06/25/2005 7:43:59 AM PDT · by TheOtherOne · 16 replies · 292+ views
    AP ^ | AP-ES-06-25-05 0845EDT<
    Mugabe Pledges Building Plan, Scorns Western 'demonization'By Michael Hartnack Associated Press Writer Published: Jun 25, 2005 HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP)- Hundreds of homes have been built in Zimbabwe's capital to replace some of the thousands destroyed in a widely criticized official "cleanup" campaign, the government said Saturday ahead of a planned visit by a United Nations envoy. President Robert Mugabe earlier scorned Western "demonization" of his five-week program called Operation Murambatsvina, or "Drive Out Trash," which has left between 200,000 and 1.5 million Zimbabweans without homes or livelihoods. Saturday's announcement followed the condemnation by 10 U.N. human rights experts of the...
  • A Miltary Father’s Response to Senator Durbin’s Apology

    06/22/2005 10:31:09 AM PDT · by America's Resolve · 23 replies · 3,158+ views
    Self | 06/22/05 | America's Resolve
    A Miltary Father’s Response to Senator Durbin’s Apology I penned a short essay about the remarks Senator Durbin made on the Senate floor comparing our troops and detention center in Guantanamo Bay to Nazi death camps, Soviet Gulags, and Pol Pot’s “killing fields.” I feel honor-bound to take issue with this non-apology apology on several grounds. #1) The Senator actually believes that the US is no better than the Nazi’s, Soviet’s or Pol Pot. It doesn’t take a week to decide that you’ve been misinformed and apologize. The Senator KNEW that this was a lie when he spoke it. He...
  • The face of the REAL Gitmo!

    06/21/2005 8:26:47 PM PDT · by America's Resolve · 580+ views
    Text of Durbin Apology ^ | 06/21/05 | America's Resolve
    Checkout post 109 in the thread above. Hugh Hewitt transcript interviewing a young officer 2 months back from Gitmo: In fact, my men and I spent nine hours on a runway waiting to try and get a detainee to go back home who had refused to do so because he wanted to stay at Guantanamo because he was being treated so well.
  • Losing Our Will, and Our Minds

    06/21/2005 7:26:43 PM PDT · by redstate38 · 7 replies · 421+ views
    Intellectual Conservative ^ | 6/21/05 | Vincent Fiore
    The memory of New York's Twin Towers crashing to the ground on September 11, 2001, seems far removed from the minds of a sizable portion of the American public. Because we live in a country that permits the lives of ordinary citizens to quickly resume their normal activities and concerns, September 11 -- and the fight against terrorism as a whole -- has taken on the aspect of a new Broadway play: culturally popular and required-viewing in its debut, then suffering from lack of interest and novelty after the newness of it wears away.
  • Death at Disney Concerns Consumer Group

    06/21/2005 1:51:49 PM PDT · by LouAvul · 48 replies · 1,584+ views
    fox ^ | 6-21-05
    NEW YORK — Last year, more than 328 million people worldwide visited amusement parks but the death this week of one 4-year-old boy at Walt Disney World has led some to question whether more needs to be done to improve theme park safety. Daudi Bamuwamye (search) died on a popular ride at Walt Disney World's Epcot Center. Since the "Mission: Space" attraction opened in 2003, seven people have been taken to the hospital for chest pains, fainting or nausea. The intense attraction simulates a rocket and spins riders around in a centrifuge. "We believe the ride is safe in its...
  • Time for unanimous outrage at Durbin - who refuses to apologize and blames others

    06/21/2005 5:15:16 AM PDT · by OESY · 41 replies · 1,084+ views
    Townhall.com ^ | June 21, 2005 | David Limbaugh
    It's important that we don't let Dick Durbin off the hook too quickly. And, it's important that we not let his shills and enablers turn the tables by saying Republicans are merely attacking him to switch the subject from our alleged abuse of terrorist POWs. That's basically what Fox News' Juan Williams did when he grudgingly admitted that Durbin's likening of Gitmo to the genocidal Soviet, Cambodian and Nazi regimes was over the top. The decent, though persistently misguided Williams said that Durbin's crude comparison should not detract from his very important point: that America is abusing prisoners in Guantanamo....
  • Durbin Revises and Extends Gitmo Remarks

    06/20/2005 1:53:16 PM PDT · by Random Nonsense · 22 replies · 1,188+ views
    FOX News ^ | June 17, 2005 | Jim Angle and Sharon Kehnemui Liss
    ..... One knowledgeable official familiar with the memo cited by Durbin as well as other memos said the FBI agent made no such allegation and that the memo described only someone chained to the floor. Anything beyond that is simply an interpretation, the official said. Several Democrats declined to comment on Durbin's remarks. Those who did chose their words carefully, saying questions remain about interrogations. "I don't think, however, that I would go quite as far as he would because, for example, I don't think we need to close down Guantanamo Bay," said Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-Va. Senate Minority Leader...
  • None dare call it treason

    06/19/2005 10:47:15 AM PDT · by oldtimer2 · 100 replies · 1,932+ views
    The American Thinker ^ | June 19, 2005 | Bob Weir
    None dare call it treason June 19th, 2005 Weir Thinking about it In case anyone still wondered if the Democrats were on a collision course with political obscurity, Illinois Senator Dick Durbin’s recent comments on the floor of that once venerable institution should have removed all doubt. Comparing American interrogators at Guantanamo Bay to the Nazis under Hitler, and other mass murdering regimes of Stalin and Pol Pot, the Senator said he was reading from an FBI agent‘s report describing treatment of the detainees at the Naval base as, “chained to the floor without food or water in extreme temperatures.”...
  • One Way to Gitmo - (HA! one of the best articles yet on the topic! Dustin nails it!)

    06/18/2005 3:32:30 PM PDT · by CHARLITE · 55 replies · 1,873+ views
    CHRONWATCH.COM ^ | JUNE 18, 2005 | DUSTIN HAWKINS
    You know things aren’t going well for the Democrats when their main fighting issue is what the room temperature is at Guantanamo Bay’s Motel 6. Among the brilliant ideas of the “We Support the Troops” party is to close down the island-resort prison center affectionately referred to as Gitmo. The people most upset about the “torture” are mainly a bunch of leftwing, bed-wetting socialists who have never supported the war in any form or at any stage, but who we are now supposed to take as objective, credible persons. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Idiot) breathlessly announced the extent of the torture...
  • FR Poll: Senator Durbin's comparison of US troops to Pol Pot's regime, Nazis and Stalin's Gulag

    06/17/2005 6:50:47 PM PDT · by Momaw Nadon · 80 replies · 1,668+ views
    Free Republic ^ | Friday, June 17, 2005 | Free Republic
    Senator Durbin's comparison of US troops to Pol Pot's regime, Nazis and Stalin's Gulag is: Commendable Accurate Acceptable Inexcusable Slanderous Outrageous Treasonous Other/Pass
  • Say It Isn’t So, Dickie Boy

    06/17/2005 5:24:13 PM PDT · by Congressman Billybob · 78 replies · 3,115+ views
    23 June, 2005
    Let’s talk about the stupidity of Senators. Senator Dick Durbin (D., Ill.) is our Poster Child. First, there is no known lower limit on the stupidity of an individual Senator. For gross public dumb, it’s hard to beat a one-term Iowa Senator who went to a local massage parlor to have his ashes hauled. He was dumb enough to pay with a credit card. And dumb to have a staffer who was living in sin with an Iowa reporter. As a result, the credit card slip was published in a paper, and the gentleman’s career ended at six years. This...
  • What is Being Left... (the fifth installment)

    06/17/2005 9:03:29 AM PDT · by Mr.Atos · 253+ views
    My Sandmen ^ | 06.16.05 | Mr. Atos
    I am speaking again tonight to Democrats as much as Republicans, asking them to contemplate the recent statements and actions of their Congressional surrogates in both houses - Senator Richard Durbin (D. Illinois) and Representative Charles Rangel (D. New York) - and ask yourselves if they represent you, your values, and your viewpoints. Because, I submit that what is being Left is increasingly at odds with the sensibilities of the majority of both the Democrat Party and the people of America. On Tuesday, Senator Durbin chimed in with his latest denigration of the U.S. Military's actions in the War on...
  • Durbin Issues Belated Apology (Humor)

    06/17/2005 7:07:48 AM PDT · by NonZeroSum · 66 replies · 2,799+ views
    Transterrestrial Musings Weblog ^ | June 17th, 2005 | Rand Simberg
    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...
  • Durbin's Demons - (this man should be forced to resign, or voted out of office!)

    06/16/2005 4:22:36 PM PDT · by CHARLITE · 31 replies · 1,020+ views
    MENS NEWS DAILY.COM ^ | JUNE 16, 2005 | SHER ZIEVE
    Spurred on by the fact that the US mainstream media allows and even encourages the Democrats to be as outrageous as possible (after all---it’s the MSM’s Party too!), Senator Dick Durbin has decided to challenge Howard Dean and Ted “the swimmer” Kennedy for buffoon of the year; if not the decade. Not satisfied with only comparing conservatives to the evil ones, Durbin decided to compare member of our US Military to Nazis, Cambodia’s genocidal leader Pol Pot and, of course, the Soviet gulags . In fact, he said as part of his inordinately long and loathsome diatribe: “On one occasion,...
  • Hey, Durbin, and the rest of you traitors -- HERE IS POL POT

    06/16/2005 4:23:54 PM PDT · by doug from upland · 26 replies · 1,357+ views
    TIME ^ | 1999 | David Chandler
    TIME 100: AUGUST 23-30, 1999 VOL. 154 NO. 7/8 Pol Pot Born May 19, 1925 in Prek Sbauv 1949 Studies left-wing politics in France 1953 Returns to Cambodia and joins Communist Party, which he leads a decade later 1975 Khmer Rouge is victor of civil war and occupies Phnom Penh; reign of terror kills 1.5 million in next four years 1979 Goes into hiding after Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia 1998 Dies April 15 in Cambodian jungle "We were like babies learning to walk," he said of his "mistakes" Cambodia's ruthless dictator cheated justice, dying before he could answer for the...
  • DFU SONG: Camp Grenada (sticking it to DICK Durbin big time...how about this, DICK)

    06/15/2005 9:25:51 PM PDT · by doug from upland · 23 replies · 676+ views
    DFU SONGS | 6-2005 | Lyrics, Doug from Upland
    MIDI - CAMP GRENADA Hello a-ho, Richard Durbin...did I see you in your turbin Al-Jazeera loves you dearly...they know what side you are on, you've shown it clearly Your performance was disgusting...our own soldiers, you're not trusting We're the Nazis, you are saying...on a prayer rug have you secretly been praying What a scumbag, what a traitor...to al-Qaeda you have catered All their efforts you embolden...U.S. haters look at you as if you're golden We run gulags like the commies...we would torture kids and mommies Even Pol Pot can't outdo us...is there anything you wouldn't say to screw us...
  • The Journalism of Warfare

    06/08/2005 5:36:10 PM PDT · by Cecily · 4 replies · 494+ views
    The New Criterion ^ | June, 2005 | Keith Windschuttle
    In December 1996, Robert Fisk of the London newspaper The Independent traveled to the mountains north of Khartoum where he met Osama bin Laden. The opening sentences of the article he wrote about the meeting went as follows: Osama Bin Laden sat in his gold fringed robe, guarded by loyal Arab mujahedin… . With his high cheekbones, narrow eyes and long brown robe, Mr Bin Laden looks every inch the mountain warrior of mujahedin legend. Chadored children danced in front of him, preachers acknowledged his wisdom. In a second article he wrote about the same meeting, Fisk upgraded bin Laden’s...
  • The forgotten holocaust: 1.8 million Cambodians killed by Pol Pot (US is really to blame, of course)

    03/28/2005 11:41:56 AM PST · by dead · 37 replies · 1,666+ views
    The Guardian ^ | Monday March 28, 2005 | Tom Fawthrop
    1.8 million were slaughtered in Pol Pot's Year Zero atrocities of the 1970s. His victims still wait for justice. Imagine a tsunami 10 times as destructive as the one we witnessed in south-east Asia. Imagine that nearly 2 million people have been wiped off the face of the earth. Surely the world would be rushing to help, pouring in millions of dollars and bundles of compassion in the wake of such an unspeakable catastrophe? Just such a tragedy did happen more than a quarter of a century ago. Yet the people most affected by it received little in international help...