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She's a hoot.
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Since this alleged FBI report is an official document, it had better be guarded by armed guards. Don't forget sandy "the burglar" berger is walking the streets.
Remember the dummicrats slogan, "the end justifies the means"
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Dubrin is indeed a traitorous fool...a dangerous fool. But, still, nothing more than a fool.
Instead of recalling previous stupid remarks, recall this idiot of a senator.
I really liked this article. I imgine Dirty Durbin won't bother to read it. He's as bad as Daschle and his ilk.
"I fully support President Clinton and our national security team's decision to take swift action against Saddam Hussein. The attack against this dictator should come as no surprise. The record clearly shows that he has harassed American and United Nations inspectors, ordered the destruction of important documents in anticipation of inspections and hampered the ability of inspectors to carry out their mission. His defiant protection of his weapons of mass destruction cannot go unanswered. I call on those who question the motives of the president and his national security advisors to join with the rest of America in presenting a united front to our enemies abroad. The men and women who are risking their lives in defense of our national and global security deserve nothing less." (1998)
"Efforts by White House officials to intimidate those who questioned the intelligence on Iraq could be illegal and must be investigated." (2002)
Being called Eddie Haskell is quit the insult, IMHO. And rather funny.
Terri O'Brian is a lawyer, a "babe" and has a biting Couler-esk wit.
If the people of Illinois don't like him, why is he still in office???
The press with it's continual battering of the Administration on insignificant items is as irresponsible as Durbin, Time, News Week, the NY and LA Times commit errors, errors of omission, with their selective reporting. Little wonder Fox is so popular, at least with Fox you get both sides of the story. Sorry the Liberals think that because Fox reports both sides the side they don't want out is exposed. Limbaugh and Drudge are also listened to because you get both sides of the story are at least the side not told by the Old Media.
Are the people of Illinois going to lead a recall against this Traitor?
Durbin is a Dick.
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From Aljazeer.Net
US senator stands by Nazi remark
Thursday 16 June 2005, 21:38 Makka Time, 18:38 GMT
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A US senator has refused to apologise for comparing the actions of US soldiers at Guantanamo Bay to those of Nazis, while others have decried or defended the mandate and method used to hold prisoners there.
US Senator Dick Durbin on Wednesday refused to apologise for comments he made on the Senate floor referring to Nazis, Soviet gulags and a "mad regime" like Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
Illinois Republican party chairman Andy McKenna had demanded he apologise.
"Senator Durbin's comments come as a great disservice to our military personnel in Guantanamo," he said.
"They are also a great disservice to all US soldiers and veterans who have fought, and continue to fight, to overcome evil regimes and spread democracy around the world."
Durbin did not plan to apologise for the comments, spokesman Joe Shoemaker said.
"This administration should apologise to the American people for abandoning the Geneva Conventions and authorising torture techniques that put our troops at risk and make Americans less secure," Durbin had said in a statement on Wednesday evening.
Attack
During a speech on Tuesday, Durbin, the Senate's number two Democrat, quoted from an FBI agent's report describing detainees at the naval base in Cuba as being chained to the floor without food or water in extreme temperatures.
"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"
US Senator Dick Durbin
"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 is not alone in his criticism.
Human-rights groups have long accused the administration of unjustly detaining suspects at the prison camp. Amnesty International last month called the detention centre the "gulag of our times".
Rebuttal
President George Bush and other administration officials, however, have strongly resisted such comparisons and questioned Amnesty's objectivity.
"It's difficult to explain to a mom and dad who's lost their son or daughter how you can have someone in Guantanamo Bay, release them and then they kill your son and daughter"
Alberto Gonzales,
US attorney-general
"I take strong exception to any characterisations that try to
diminish what our military is doing and the standards and values that they adhere to," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said.
The Bush administration calls the Guantanamo prisoners enemy combatants who are entitled to fewer legal protections than those afforded to prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions.
Defence
According to US Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales on Wednesday, the US government often considers whether it would be better to stop detaining prisoners at Guantanamo.
Gonzales (L) has defended the
right to hold enemy combatants
"That's a question that is evaluated, I would say, quite often," he said in Sheffield, England, where he will attend a meeting of G8 interior ministers on Thursday and Friday.
On Wednesday, he had said "there will of course be an end", but did not specify when.
He also pointed out that about a dozen of those who had been released had returned to fight against the US.
"It's difficult to explain to a mom and dad who's lost their son or daughter how you can have someone in Guantanamo Bay, release them and then they kill your son and daughter," he said.
Since the camp was set up after the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US, 167 detainees have been freed and 67 others released to the custody of their home governments.
About 520 detainees from about 40 countries remain at Guantanamo. Only 12 have been handed over to military commissions for investigation of possible war crimes and four have been charged.
Debate
In a three-hour hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, legal experts from the US military and the Justice Department said the US had a right under the Geneva Conventions to hold enemy combatants.
But committee chairman Senator Arlen Specter suggested lawmakers would have to clarify what he called a "crazy quilt" of laws and regulations governing the detentions.
Some lawmakers want the facility closed, saying it has become a liability that inflames Muslims against the United States.
"Guantanamo is an international embarrassment to our nation, to our ideals and it remains a festering threat to our security," Senator Patrick Leahy, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, said.
Survey
A Pew Research Centre poll, taken over the weekend, indicated most Americans agree that reports of abuse at Guantanamo are isolated incidents, and 39% think the news media is paying too much attention to the issue.
The poll found a sharp partisan divide on the issue - Democrats believing the abuses to be systemic and Republicans saying they were isolated incidents.
Hi Teri. I am not surprised that you wrote this. Those of us in Illinois who know this guy's true colors are not surprised. His modis operendi has always been to jump in with some half @ss press conference to voice an opinion that will keep his name in the paper.
I don't recall one piece of legislation, one non-partisan remark, one thing in general that's he does as an initiative on his own.
He is the worst Senator from Illinois that I can remember in my lifetime. He couldn't carry the shoes of a Senator Dirkson or of others in his party.
How in the hell did we elect this man?
I've called in a couple times...(like this morning on Don and Roma regarding the movie Cinderella Man.) Keep up the great show...!!!
Doctor Nick
That's a retorical question obviously.