Dick Doesn't Know...well, you fill it in

Adding another member to the swelling ranks of the Left’s Consolidated Caucus of Moral Midgetry is the working man’s equivalent of stuffing 12 pounds of meat in a six-ounce sausage skin. But hey, these are the Democrats Version .05 we’re talking about. Infinitely Infantile Intellectuality International, welcome your newest member – Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois.

Durbin in his own words describing conditions at the terrorist (I’m talking about the detainees, not the troops Dick) prison at Gitmo: “If…I 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 the gulags or some mad regime – Pol Pot or others – that had no concern for human beings.”

Senator, by last count, those good folks you mentioned slaughtered about the equivalent of the population of California. Throw Chairman Mao’s rosy record in there and the slaughter count would provide an easy U.S. electoral victory (for Democrats of course, remember – these are corpses voting). Interesting Durbin didn’t mention that paragon of perfidy Fidel on his own turf, whose own prisons I’m sure offer preferable accoutrements. I know, keep Castro out of this, he provided Spielberg the most important moment of his life…

I fully appreciate that the United States operates by a different standard of conduct than the unholy hordes of the New Dark Age that have (shake Durbin awake and let him know please Illinois) declared war on this country. It’s trite by now, but I’ll repeat it – this enemy will kill anyone anywhere and will die to kill, no hesitation. They adhere to no recognized law or code – just kill, baby. I pray thankfully every day that I am an American because we are exceptional – economically, culturally, militarily and, most importantly, morally. Yes it’s true Senator Durbin, we ARE better – welcome to the dimension called reality.

America being better is a given and we’ve gone above and beyond to live up to that expectation, so we’ll move on. I think it’s appropriate (but unbelievable that it is necessary) to explain that while we are different from the Nazis (duh), the inhuman detritus being held in Gitmo (average weight gain – 13 lbs. each – give any visitor to Club Auschwitz that little tidbit before beginning a panel discussion on torture) are even more different than the victims of the Honor Roll on which Durbin listed our troops.

Victims of Nazis-Soviets-Khmer Rogue: innocent civilians starved, raped, butchered, maimed, experimented on; most for the high crime of not liking Communism or being Jewish or simply being alive in the wrong place at the wrong time. Detainees in Gitmo: war criminals, murderers and terrorists (don’t tell me “there’s no evidence or charges against them”) picked up as illegal combatants trying to fill their Karmic Morgue with American Infidels on the Road to Paradise. These butchers get a little hot and Democrats want to have a PBS telethon? Try flipping back the flap of a Marine tent in the middle of Iraq if you want to know hot, Senator.

I’d like to ask Sen. Durbin if his thinks Nazi troops that bayoneted babies or gulag guards that performed mass executions were innocent victims of their respective regimes. Presumably, and correctly, he’d answer no. Next logical step – if he thinks our troops and public servants responsible for oversight and interrogation of Gitmo prisoners are engaging in Khmer Rogue-like slaughter, wouldn’t our troops need to be tried for war crimes and crimes against the precious humanity of our enemy? Of course, it’s fashionable for Democrats these days to choke out their “support the troops, oppose the war” pap, but this is one they can’t outrun. He directly attacked the troops in an obscene, but inevitable, progression of collecting Democrat rhetorical precedent.

This historic idiocy and historical illiteracy should not surprise us; consider the source. The maddening thing is that there are many people of undetectable character and judgment occupying the highest levels of our government trusted with our nation’s secrets as is the case with Dick Durbin. So while it’s fun to hurl buckets of well-earned invective and revel in the missteps of unworthy rubes like the popularly-elected Durbin, it requires that one step back and evaluate why Churchill really said that democracy is the worst system of government aside from all the others. He must have had Dick Durbin in mind.

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