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Durbin refuses to apologize for Guantanamo Bay comments
AP ^ | June 15, 2005

Posted on 06/15/2005 7:43:48 PM PDT by jdm

CHICAGO -- Illinois Senator Dick Durbin says he won't apologize for comments comparing American interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Nazis and Soviet gulags.

News of the Democrat's comparison created a buzz around the Internet today, fueled by sound bites of yesterday's Senate floor speech on radio talk shows. By this afternoon, Illinois Republican Party Chairman Andy McKenna asked Durbin to apologize.

Durbin says the Bush administration should apologize for abandoning the Geneva Conventions.

Human-rights activist groups and some lawmakers -- mostly Democrats -- want Bush to close the prison.

But administration officials say some of the people who have been detained at Guantanamo later return to fight against the United States.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 109th; dick; durbin; durtbin; nutjob
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To: roses of sharon
No bet, All I know is if given half a chance he would put his hands in the bloods and show it to his followers.

Durbin is and always has been scum.

81 posted on 06/15/2005 8:43:20 PM PDT by dts32041 (Robin Hood, stealing from the government and giving back to tax payer. Where is he today?)
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To: jdm

82 posted on 06/15/2005 8:48:34 PM PDT by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghanistan Honor Roll students.And we're unlikely to get a look into this t)
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To: armymarinemom
I keep thinking DurBIN Laden

That would work, Illinois already has Osama Obama.

83 posted on 06/15/2005 8:50:31 PM PDT by Fudd Fan (Memo to FatTed: Mary Jo Kopechne needed an "exit strategy")
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To: PhilDragoo

That is beyond unacceptable. If I were any senator and any member of my staff handled just one call like that, they'd hear the crash in Alaska.


84 posted on 06/15/2005 8:54:04 PM PDT by Fudd Fan (Memo to FatTed: Mary Jo Kopechne needed an "exit strategy")
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To: dts32041
if he could he would dip his hands in the blood of our dead soldiers

He doesn't have to, it's already there.

85 posted on 06/15/2005 9:00:14 PM PDT by Fudd Fan (Memo to FatTed: Mary Jo Kopechne needed an "exit strategy")
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To: jdm

May he rot.


86 posted on 06/15/2005 9:02:09 PM PDT by Roberts
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To: roses of sharon

I married a woman whose Father is a died-in-the-wool Democrat and a local politician (Mayor). The entire family is blind to the clinton degeneracy and criminality and hangs upon every mischaracterization by a dem leader, swallowing some of the most astonishing lies. It is a point of great depression for me to see otherwise rational people so blind to facts because 'they want to win again'. My wife has a standing order to not discuss politics or the news with her father or brother while in her presence. They know of this order and try to bait me at every opportunity. I've taken to using quips for bullet bytes. Even my wife gets a kick out of them.


87 posted on 06/15/2005 9:03:36 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: Smartass

Thanks for the ping!


88 posted on 06/15/2005 9:03:38 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: PhilDragoo; Smartass; Happy2BMe; Bassfire

89 posted on 06/15/2005 9:05:03 PM PDT by Boazo (From the mind of BOAZO)
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To: Boazo
More like a D##khead.
90 posted on 06/15/2005 9:09:31 PM PDT by Smartass (Si vis pacem, para bellum - Por el dedo de Dios se escribió)
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To: dts32041

Blood is something Durbin knows how to exploit. When the partial birth abortion bill was before the Seante, Durbin tried to float an alternate bill to ban 'almost all abortion' except where doen for 'the life and health of the mother' ... IOW, this piece of rotted excrement tried to pretend he was anti-abortion on demand but tried to hide his empowerment scheme of child slaughter in the same rhetoric the democraps have used for decades now! He was seeking to exploit the blood of innocent children slaughtered in all abortions by deceiving the American people. He is lower than whale poo and hasn't a clue that We The People are pissed when he slanders OUR military people, the military people who've come from OUR homes to risk all for OUR nation. The 'our' shouldn't include democraps like Durbin and Kennedy and Harkin and Boxsh!t and Hatellary, but it does because our military is honorable! But then, honor is something the democrap party lost long ago, when they chose to exploit abortion for their political empowerment scheme.


91 posted on 06/15/2005 9:12:56 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: jdm
An alternate title to this thread could be " Dick Spews Goo on Senate Floor: Refuses to Clean Up Mess"
92 posted on 06/15/2005 9:13:15 PM PDT by yooling (I've got a bad feeling about this.)
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To: MHGinTN
If I do get baited, the Socrates method ALWAYS works!

I just gently keep asking questions, they answer until they cannot answer anymore, (because suddenly the absence of logic dawns on them), and say, "well, I don't pay as much attention to politics as you"!

This always works with conspiracies about Bush and the war, and it works with policy debate also.

To funny, and to easy! They always, always, drop the subject, when they started it.
93 posted on 06/15/2005 9:14:22 PM PDT by roses of sharon (,)
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To: Darkwolf377

Washington is apparently populated by two types of creatures; pussies and traitors.


94 posted on 06/15/2005 9:17:43 PM PDT by yooling (I've got a bad feeling about this.)
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To: oceanview
has any republican member of the senate condemned him yet?,

the simple fact that not one Rep has demanded his resignation is more unsettling than what DirtBagDurbin said. Our so called leaders in Congress are wimps and deserve no respect or our money for reelection. Durbin should be tried for treason and if found guilty, hung the next morning. Our brave Warriors are shedding their blood so that weak, pathetic men can stand and insult this Republic and shame our nation in the eyes of the world. If I was in Congress, I would seek this DirtBag Durbin out and punch his lights out. His actions are absolutely traitorous.

95 posted on 06/15/2005 9:20:03 PM PDT by liberty2004
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To: jdm

And the people of Illinois will elect this traitor again. Reminds me of Wash. DC and Marion Berry.


96 posted on 06/15/2005 9:23:56 PM PDT by John Lenin
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To: jdm

What do you expect? He was elected by the same yobs who put Barack Obama into office. Illinois is a lost cause. Hand it over to the Muslims and their Dhimmi stooges like Blago, Daley, and Durbin. The yob voters and their legions of ghostly allies (whose arise from cemeteries on election day) will probably vote this fool into office for another six years in 2006.


97 posted on 06/15/2005 9:29:54 PM PDT by Bogolyubski (Liberalism - a terminal mental illness)
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To: Txsleuth
But, this time, if we pullout, American will be destroyed from within, as well as from afar...

No doubt this will happen. The US will have a second civil war within 15 years. When it happens, it will be those who believe in Individual rights and limited government versus the evil-Socialist left. Trust me there are many more on our side. We have the Warriors on our side. The only way to save this Republic and the world is if the left is not defeated, but destroyed. When the 2nd Revolution starts, the left will be eliminated from this Republic. It will be us against them. They will lose the war and rightfully, their lives.

98 posted on 06/15/2005 9:32:24 PM PDT by liberty2004
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To: Bogolyubski

A new title for our senior senator from Soviet Blagoyestan: Dhimmi-Dick Durbin.


99 posted on 06/15/2005 9:34:59 PM PDT by Bogolyubski (Liberalism - a terminal mental illness)
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To: OXENinFLA

Durbin refuses to apologize for Guantanamo Bay comments

Good then I won't have to apologize for calling him a slimy little toad faced git.


100 posted on 06/15/2005 9:44:59 PM PDT by Valin (The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.)
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