Posted on 06/17/2005 7:04:26 AM PDT by conservativecorner
Vermont Senator Pat "Leaky" Leahy tried to spin his way out of the Democrats' Nazi-gate scandal yesterday - after Illinois Senator Dick Durbin compared U.S. troops at Guantanamo Bay to soldiers in Hitler's Third Reich - by saying his colleague was misquoted in the Wall Street Journal.
Asked whether he objected to Durbin's characterization of GI's as "Nazis," Leahy told WVMT Vermont's "Charlie & Ernie" radio show, "First of all, with Sen. Durbin, I'd be very careful about taking quotes off the Wall Street Journal editorial page.
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"They are notorious for taking quotes totally out of context," he added, "even making them up." Durbin's quotes, however, didn't appear in the Wall Street Journal, but were instead first covered by its sister web site, OpinionJournal.com, which obtained the incendiary remarks from actual Senate audio broadcast by radio hosts Laura Ingraham, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.
Unfazed by his error, Leahy blasted the Bush administration's decision to invade Iraq, suggesting that the U.S. had done just as much damage to Iraq as Saddam Hussein.
Reminded of the Iraqi lives that have been saved since Saddam's fall, Leahy shot back - "We could also think of the tens of thousands of Iraqi lives that have been lost since the fall of Hussein."
I am always amused when someone says, ...."well the demonRATs said....", like anything they say is ever the truth!
I agree they have NOTHING to offer but cliche wing-nut grassy knoll absurdities.
What is shocking to me is the number of Americans who buy into their cr@p.
No matter, the truth is always an absolute defense, and it ALWAYS comes out eventually.
I would like to see Leheah and Durbin try to say their insults in front of an Army or Marine's face.
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Sorry about the double post, (but not it's contents).
I believe it.
I wonder how Leahy is going to explain those letters passed out during that Downing St Memo meeting saying the Jews knew about 911 ahead of time?
The Que looks almost natural.
"Yet the MSM gives them a pass everyday! "
They are on the same team.
When it comes to Leahy, I'll let the Vice Pres speak for me.
If only we could take a huge chain and tow New England out into the North Atlantic, to let it drift aimlessly, negating its communist influence over the rest of America.
Don't count on it as "being seen that way"!!! Did you ever try and kill a Snake?? The tail doesn't stop moving until after sundown!!!
It's the column that brough me onboard with the President.
Notice there's no mention of WMDs.
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