" I'm not blaming the Republicans, I'm suggesting that they get a pair and start fighting back for once."
Where's the President ? Where's Cheney ? Rumsfeld ?
Every decent American should be outraged that Durbin equated the men and the women of the military with those who gassed and murdered 6 million men, women and children in concentration camps .
They made lampshades from human skin at Buchenwald.
The Nazi sadism and medical experimentation was unspeakable.
How dare Durbin says our soldiers are the moral equivalent of Josef Mengele and Hermann Goering !!
And where is the Jewish community ?
Durbin equated the death camps to the playing of rap music and hot rooms .
Where is Simon Weisenthal ? The ADL ?
Norm Coleman ? Russ Feingold ? Diane Feinstein ?
Steven Speilberg and the Shoah Foundation ?
Just imagine if Pat Buchanan had said what Durbin did.
In fairness, the ADL did issue a rebuke to Durban but that's only one from your list.
I'm not sure why the Jewish community or Jewish politicians have a special duty to defend President Bush and the military from outrageous charges. The military is the party being outrageously defamed here.
My point again, is that it should be the other side of the isle leading the counter attack against an outrage that is specifically identified with a particular political party. The military is not usually in the business of responding to comments of politicians: that is the job of our "fearless" Republican leadership.
I don't know if your last message is intended to defend the Republicans or to attack the Jews (your reference to the anti-Semite Buchanan makes me wonder) but I still don't get your point or particularly appreciate it.