Posted on 06/16/2005 8:45:16 PM PDT by finnman69
Earlier today Scott noted that Senator Durbin hit the "mo' better metaphors" trifecta, managing to compare our practices at Guantanamo Bay with those of the Nazis, the Soviets, and the Khmer Rouge. Scott gave me credit for "anticipat[ing] the rabid foaming at the mouth" of Durbin and his partner in defamation Senator Leahy. In fact, however, I never expected that any U.S. Senator would express such absurd sentiments. I didn't realize that leftist fever swamp extends so profoundly into the Senate.
Just for the record (as if that matters to the left) Rowan Scarborough in the Washington Times reminds us of the following:
Adolf Hitler - About 9 million dead
Soviet gulags - About 2.7 million dead
Pol Pot - About 1.7 million dead
Gitmo - zero dead
Gitmo - five instances of Koran abuse by prison guards
Gitmo-15 instances of Koran abuse by prisoners.
The big lie is nothing new in politics. Hitler and Stalin were master practicioners. What's unusual about Durbin's lie is that it slanders his own country. Normally that kind of slander is uttered only by revolutionaries seeking the violent overthrow of the government. Yet Durbin purports to be part of a loyal opposition.
What possessed Durbin to do it? How, after harping constantly on the importance of our image to winning the war on terrorism, could he cast the U.S. in such a false light? It's not likely that he intentionally set out to injure his country. Until I hear a better explanation, I'll put it down to a kind of sickness or derangement brought on by hatred -- of President Bush, the military, etc. -- coupled with a very weak immune system (i.e. intellect).
I've been looking for a link of a transcript of what Durbin said. I was out of the news cycle Tuesday and Wednesday and have only read/seen the same clips. I'd like to see the full text. Anyone got a link?
I once thought that the far-left was not all that stupid, but today, Durbin shot me down in flames...I was wrong.
Fascinating. Even as a child I thought the far-left was all that stupid. I'm glad you came to learn the truth.
They should have a Godwin's Law rule in the US Senate.
I think he got up in the Senate and further enhanced what he said...So you might look on todays Senate thread....it is quite long and also had a late discussion of the House situation, where there was a motion to censure Sensebrenner, it was voted down on a party line vote...Title of the thread was ....
LIVE Senate Thread (6-16) Energy Bill, Bolton vote, & the DSM ^
It's REALLY too bad, that our "honorable" Senators outlawed Dueling...
If dueling were still legal -- those Democrat bastards in the Senate wouldn't be so eager to let their alligator mouth overload their hummingbird ass..
Semper Fi
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