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VFW Asks Senator Durbin To Apologize For Guantanamo Bay Comments
AP ^ | 6/16/05

Posted on 06/16/2005 4:27:44 PM PDT by ambrose

VFW Asks Senator Durbin To Apologize For Guantanamo Bay Comments

Created: 6/16/2005 6:10:55 PM

Updated: 6/16/2005 6:11:56 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars says Senator Dick Durbin's comparison of American interrogators at Guantanamo Bay to Nazis and Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot angers the group of 2.4-million veterans.

John Furgess said today that Durbin was out of line and he demanded an apology.

Earlier today, the White House said the Illinois Democrat's comments were a disservice to those serving in the military.

Durbin made the comparison on the Senate floor Tuesday after reading an F-B-I report describing Guantanamo Bay detainees as being chained to the floor without food or water in extreme temperatures.

A Durbin spokesman says the senator doesn't plan to apologize for his comments.

And the senator issued a statement saying the Bush administration that should apologize for "authorizing torture techniques."


TOPICS: Extended News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: apology; dachaudurbin; durbin; gitmo; treason; vfw
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1 posted on 06/16/2005 4:27:45 PM PDT by ambrose
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To: ambrose; xsmommy; Corin Stormhands; Gabz; pgkdan; AppyPappy; IGOTMINE; patton; Angelwood

Sweet! :-) I encourage everyone who hasn't already to contact Durbin's office. And I plan to thank Virginia's own John Warner, who is tearing this seditious scumbag a new one on the Senate floor.


2 posted on 06/16/2005 4:29:38 PM PDT by Coop (In memory of a true hero - Pat Tillman)
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To: ambrose

Durbin is a POS SOB.


3 posted on 06/16/2005 4:30:37 PM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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To: ambrose

About time the VFW got off it's fat washington DC butt.


4 posted on 06/16/2005 4:31:27 PM PDT by ProudVet77 (NASCAR - Because it's the way Americans drive.)
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To: Coop

A vote to censure Durbin is the absolute LEAST the Senate needs to do to this POS. Time to force all the Dems in the Senate (and elsewhere) to stand up and be counted. Do you agree that our soldiers are Nazis, or do you not? Are you with us, or are you with the terrorists?

(We already know the answer in most cases, but making them admit it is worth doing).


5 posted on 06/16/2005 4:32:28 PM PDT by Argus (Omnia taglinea in tres partes divisa est.)
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To: Argus

Still available:

http://www.censuredurbin.com


6 posted on 06/16/2005 4:34:02 PM PDT by ambrose (.)
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To: Moonwatcher

He can be reprimanded or censured by the Senate.


8 posted on 06/16/2005 4:36:43 PM PDT by ambrose (.)
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To: Moonwatcher

Can he? Yeah, I think so, if a political leader stepped up to do it. Will he be charged? Snowball's chance.


9 posted on 06/16/2005 4:37:49 PM PDT by Coop (In memory of a true hero - Pat Tillman)
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To: ambrose

Link won't work.


10 posted on 06/16/2005 4:39:00 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (Democrats haven't had a new idea since Karl Marx.)
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To: ambrose

Why do Democrats hate America?

i don't know, but I'm beginning to hate them.


11 posted on 06/16/2005 4:39:23 PM PDT by Pittsburg Phil
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To: ambrose
Don't expect Durbin to apologize.

That would take a man.

Sorry to say it, but Illinois is down a few million when it comes to men, real men.

12 posted on 06/16/2005 4:42:54 PM PDT by CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
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To: ambrose

I get an error message on that link. But any conservative senator worth a damn should already have made the motion.


13 posted on 06/16/2005 4:42:57 PM PDT by Argus (Omnia taglinea in tres partes divisa est.)
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To: Ursus arctos horribilis

Impeach TurbinDurbin!


14 posted on 06/16/2005 4:43:13 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Don't Tread on Me; Live Free or Die)
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To: Argus

I said that url was still available...


15 posted on 06/16/2005 4:44:15 PM PDT by ambrose (.)
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To: ambrose

Somebody in DC needs to take a good look at the statutes that cover sedition and traitorous acts.
The liberals are so desperate to be heard these days, they are trashing the military at every juncture. What they seem to forget is that the dimocrats have family members in the military too. They are determined to self destruct. GW finally came on board and portrayed them for just what they are; "Obstructionists". No alternate or constructive plans, just constant criticism.


16 posted on 06/16/2005 4:47:25 PM PDT by conshack ((Illegal immigration is the #1 threat to Homeland Security))
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To: Coop
"Snowball's chance.

Sad, but true...

However -- this is one of those CLEAR instances, when if one doesn't speak up in condemnation, I would suspect they must agree with the outrageous insult to our Nation and it's Armed Forces..

Turd in the Turban Durbin - MUST be PUNISHED for being such a lying sonuvabitch....

Expulsion from the Senate -- for CLEARLY giving aid and comfort to the enemy in time of war -- for starters.

Semper Fi

17 posted on 06/16/2005 4:48:40 PM PDT by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: ambrose
I smell blood. One of the America hating left has once again revealed their true disposition and provided patriots with all the argument they need to turn the debate around and make it all about the socialists despising everything that is right and true about the nation.

Thank you Mr. Durbin, thank you Mrs. Pelosi, thank you Mr. Reid. All who love their country, it's time to gang tackle the left!

18 posted on 06/16/2005 4:50:13 PM PDT by concentric circles
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To: ambrose

Wow...first the ADL and now the VFW. he must've pissed a lot of people off.


19 posted on 06/16/2005 4:50:25 PM PDT by cwb
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To: ambrose
I think he should be arrested for trying to incite a riot against the United States of America.

We all know what side HE is on, and it sure isn't ours!

20 posted on 06/16/2005 4:50:37 PM PDT by SheLion (Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
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