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Senator Dick Durbin on C-span [Repeating and Defending his Nazi/Gulag Comments]
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Posted on 06/16/2005 3:00:18 PM PDT by roylene

Dick Durban is on the floor of the senat again - restating what he said on the 14th. Blaming the right wing media. He just said he respects the troops - LOL! What an ass he is!!! He said what he said was not an insult to the troops.


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To: baseballmom

They're in panic mode big time! They don't know what to do.


141 posted on 06/16/2005 3:26:19 PM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: RoseofTexas
For review, here is what Durbin said and refused to retract:

"If I read this to you and 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 their gulags, or some mad regime -- Pol Pot or others -- that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that is not the case. This was the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners."
142 posted on 06/16/2005 3:26:36 PM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life, or nothing at all)
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To: iceskater

Here's a deflection, Senator Reid - go back to whatever town you come from! Can you even believe this is happening on the floor of the Senate?! I pray that the President has the guts to give Bolton a recess appointment. I can't take another quiet rant from Reid about wasting time!


143 posted on 06/16/2005 3:26:54 PM PDT by whirlygirl
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To: USAfearsnobody

So now the Democrats are attacking our troops by comparing them to the guards in the Gulag Archipelago and Pol Pots death camps. Once again the Party is supporting the enemy Terrorists that we are fighting as always. The same Party who has supported the IRA, PLO, FLN, KLA, Hezbola and every other terrorist group that attacks America supports today’s terrorists killing Americans. The same Party that hid and supported the Gulag when it was run by the Soviet Union is now condemning those prisons of death.

If Dick Durtbag wants to throw around words like Gulag, let’s take a look at exactly what he is calling our Troops. Please do not read further if you are under 18 or have a weak stomach. The death camps in the Soviet Union were designed by Stalin to eliminate dissident and the homeless and turn them into work camps. Being an enemy of the State included 10 years for taking a rotting vegetable from a communal farm. In Soltzenietzen’s case it was questioning a superior officer in a letter to his wife. Many of the tactics used were designed by the German SS who were recruited at the end of the war to help run these camps.

After a Soviet Citizen was taken off the streets he/she was given a quick hearing w/o defense and then given his ten year sentence. Ten years was essentially life since the chances of surviving was around 20-25%.

They were then loaded into boxcars with around 150 per car with no facilities other than a bucket in the middle. The people were packed so close that the people in the middle would suffocate after a few minutes and then have to be moved out to the outside and breath the cold smoky air coming through the sidewalls of the car. Thousands died on the trip to the Gulags.

Barking dogs would meet them at the Gulag as the people were herded to the camps. At the camp the people would be stripped naked and have to wait in rooms while guards watched from windows on the other side. This was to humiliate and dehumanize in addition the guards would choose the women they wanted for concubines. These women would be rewarded with extra rations for their sexual favors.

The torture sessions would start either here or before the hearing depending on the person. The person would be locked naked in a cell w/o heat in sub-freezing temperatures until his session. Some of the sessions included sexual humiliation. One was putting razor blades around a man’s penis and then having naked women walk around him. Another was to lie him face down on the floor while a woman with spiked heals would crush his testicles with her heel. There were very few cases the prisoner would not confess to anything.

The Volga Canal was called the River of Bones because it was estimated that 1000 people died for every mile of the 100 mile canal. It was dug during the middle of winter while the prisoners worked 24 hours a day. Any prisoner who complained or was a problem would be staked out naked in 15 below temperatures and have a bucket of water thrown on him to freeze him to death. One camp would have mosquitoes flying in swarms that darkened the skies so they would stake prisoners out for hours naked to let the mosquitoes bite them. Guards or Administrators who did not go along with these tactics or didn’t meet schedules were also killed.

When they returned to their cinder block cells they could look forward for a cup of broth and a small piece of moldy bread. They would lose an average of 50 lbs in the first 60 days. When they were too weak to work they would just cut their rations. The Russians found that starvation was the cheapest method of killing rather than expensive bullets while in addition would receive the benefit of cheap labor. This inhumanity is what caused me to leave the DemoCommunist Party.

This is what a US Senator and the Rat Party is calling our Proud Soldiers, nothing less. These Communist camps worldwide have murdered over 100 million innocent people in the past 75 years. The stretch is not even comparable, yet this Durtbag is allowed to get away with it. We are not torturing people in the methods of the Soviets or Cambodians. To suggest it is sickening. This Party believes the only way they can regain their power is for America to lose the War in Iraq and are doing everything they can to accomplish that goal. The only people lower than the Gulag guards are Democrats who attack our own Troops.

Ronald Reagan freed millions of prisoners from these camps which was the first major loss for the Democrat Party. President George W Bush freed thousands of prisoners in Iraq from the same prisons, which was the second major loss.

Pray for W and Our Proud Troops


144 posted on 06/16/2005 3:26:59 PM PDT by bray (Pray for Iraq's Freedom from Mohammad)
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To: God luvs America

still hasn't mentioned durbin's words...


145 posted on 06/16/2005 3:26:59 PM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: montag813
"Thre media is not covering this at all!"

Nope, not on your life...but they will continue to have the SHE-BEAST headliners on the Straw vote! See that's priority,...numero uno!!
146 posted on 06/16/2005 3:27:04 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: God luvs America
watching it now- Durbin must've been slammed every which way today.....

I have yet to see one MSM news outlet even bring up this subject (much less act as if Durbin said anything wrong). Simply sick how the MSM is today -

147 posted on 06/16/2005 3:27:22 PM PDT by SevenMinusOne
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To: God luvs America

And he won't...he's thrown out a red herring, to distract from the issue at hand. I expect him to start crying any time now.


148 posted on 06/16/2005 3:27:56 PM PDT by scott7278 (Before I give you the benefit of my reply, I'd like to know what we're talking about.)
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To: Amityschild
He's turning himself inside out trying to change the subject....the problem is, the things he's griping about are the same programs the democrats have been obstructing.
149 posted on 06/16/2005 3:28:27 PM PDT by jess35
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To: baseballmom
The mean old repubs are picking on my good friend from Ill.

Wow, Reid is really reaching now to spin things for good ole Dick Durbin.

It's the fault of the "noise machine" that Dick Durbin insulted American troops, Gulag victims, and Holocaust victims. Even the anti-Defamation League has denounced Durbin.

Oh boy, KKK man.

150 posted on 06/16/2005 3:28:27 PM PDT by Numbers Guy
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To: scott7278

THIS ISSUE IS IMPORTANT TO US!!!


151 posted on 06/16/2005 3:28:33 PM PDT by scott7278 (Before I give you the benefit of my reply, I'd like to know what we're talking about.)
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To: mainepatsfan

Reid..did he just say we have been wasting our time on 5 judges? Maybe if you pigs would vote you could move on...what a jackass


152 posted on 06/16/2005 3:28:38 PM PDT by scott says
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To: God luvs America

oh, God...Robert KKK Byrd...go catch some zzz's everyone


153 posted on 06/16/2005 3:28:41 PM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: roylene

Byyyyyrd!!!!


154 posted on 06/16/2005 3:28:44 PM PDT by USAfearsnobody
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To: pepperhead

GRAPEVINE coming up on Brit, and it will cover this...how the public disagrees with Durbin about Gitmo.


155 posted on 06/16/2005 3:29:11 PM PDT by YaYa123 (@Fingers Crossed this has legs.com)
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To: scott7278

Aaaaaaahhhhhggggggghhhhhh,

KKK Byrd up now to honor Father's Day.

No, no, their not changing the subject. Just move on.........


156 posted on 06/16/2005 3:29:11 PM PDT by baseballmom
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To: USAfearsnobody

Who knows where he's going...does he even know?


157 posted on 06/16/2005 3:29:33 PM PDT by scott7278 (Before I give you the benefit of my reply, I'd like to know what we're talking about.)
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To: jess35

Oh forcryingoutloud....now that senile old coot Byrd is rambling on about Father's day.


158 posted on 06/16/2005 3:29:33 PM PDT by jess35
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To: All

Lets hear from the rest of the Democrat losers. Come on you idiots stand behind Durbin. Heres.......... Sheets.


159 posted on 06/16/2005 3:29:58 PM PDT by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: markman46

Reid is unwatchable.

Well at least Seinfeld re-runs are on.


160 posted on 06/16/2005 3:29:58 PM PDT by gate2wire (We Honor Those Who Serve---WE REMEMBER--Thank you)
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