Posted on 06/17/2005 4:30:53 AM PDT by Coop
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"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," Durbin said.
By Thursday, conservatives' anger at what they portrayed as a comparison between the U.S. and some of history's most murderous regimes was boiling.
"I think the senator's remarks are reprehensible," said White House spokesman Scott McClellan.
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said on his show, "This is the kind of thing that ought to force him to resign in disgrace."
But Durbin, who became the assistant Democratic leader--his party's second-in-command in the Senate--at the start of this year, was unrepentant.
On a range of matters, the 60-year-old from Springfield is key in helping devise his party's strategy to protect the filibuster, oppose certain judicial nominees, halt President Bush's plan to partially privatize Social Security and try to project a positive Democratic agenda...
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
[snort!] Sen. Dick Durbin has betrayed the U.S. military.
Durbin has no choice but to commit ceremonial seppuku as soon as possible. The man has no shame.
Funny how when a liberal says the wrong thing at the wrong time, it's considered a "passion".
He'll be falling back to "Taken out of context" in the next few days. Maybe he'd like to talk to John McCain about POW camps.
Durbin needs to shut his treason-hole.
Pravda would have blushed to have published such political hogwash as this spin from the Trib. No self-respecting cat would poop on this paper.
In the meantime, Americans with common sense need to remember what these idiots do and say come time for their own reelection bids.
Durbin is a traitor who is giving aid and comfort to our enemies...but no one in power has the cojones to do anything about it!
"Clearly, that's over the top. That is not what is happening at Guantanamo Bay. What is happening at Guantanamo Bay is we're trying to treat people humanely, recognizing that these are terrorists,"
"Senator Durbin's statements are deplorable. He should ask for forgiveness, forgiveness from our troops, from their families and all of us who are trying to win this War on Terror,"
"And for you to come to the floor with just that fragment of a report and then unleash the words 'the Nazis,' unleash the word 'gulag,' unleash 'Pol Pot,' I don't know how many remember that chapter, it seems to me that was a grievous error in judgment and leaves open to the press of the world to take those three extraordinary chapters in world history and try to intertwine it with what has taken place, allegedly, at Guantanamo,"
Glad to see our Virginia boys stepping up to the plate.
Want to hear something funny....DICK will be in Illinois and St Louis today to meet with a BRAC official to discuss not closing any bases here in Illinois.....
That's not the p-word I'd use.
Try PROPAGANDA, Ms. Zuckman.
"Passion" = slander, treason, idiocy.....
Agreed.
If only there were some FReepers out to greet him with huge signs reading, "NO BASES FOR TRAITORS!!!" and "WHY SHOULD THE US MILITARY SUPPORT ILLINOIS???"
dick turd-bin... Ping!
He equated US troops to NAZIS.....that isn't passion.... that is stupidity.
jzuckman@tribune.com
I suggest Ms Zuckman hear how real American patriots feel about Turbin Durbin's "passion" and her democrat talking points puff piece of propaganda.
If I knew where he was gonna be, I'd freep him.....within range, of course....
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