(Washington Times: Gitmo called death camp) http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20050616-121815-1827r.htm
(FoxNews: Durbin Backs Gitmo Remarks) http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,159748,00.html
(WSJ: Sen. Dick Durbin likens American soldiers to Nazis) http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110006823
(TIME: Inside The Interrogation Of Detainee 063) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1071284,00.html
(NewsMax.com: Sen. Durbin: Gitmo GI's Behaved Like 'Nazis') http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/6/15/214234.shtml
(AS: Next to conspiracists like Dick Durbin, Howard Dean looks sentient) http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8313
(Reuters: Guantanamo jailed gone back to 'battlefield'- U.S) http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=8799776&src=rss/topNews
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These libs are unAmerican....spewing hate speech at our troops.
1. Nets Tout Iraq Withdrawal Pushed by 4 U.S. Reps, But Skip Durbin ABC and CBS led Thursday night with how four backbench Members of Congress held a press conference to publicize their resolution calling for a draw down of troops in Iraq by October of 2006, but neither network uttered a word about Democratic Senator Dick Durbin's outlandish comparison of the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo to "Nazis, Soviets in their gulags" or Pol Pot. Only NBC reported Durbin's comparison, but that brief item aired only after Kelly O'Donnell touted the vision of "North Carolina Republican Walter Jones, who today alongside two Democrats and a fellow Republican, proposed what many Americans, weary of the violence in Iraq, appear increasingly eager to see, a withdrawal date for U.S. troops." On ABC, anchor Elizabeth Vargas announced: "We start tonight with the Bush administration and the growing discontent over the war in Iraq. On Capitol Hill today, a resolution was introduced that would require U.S. troops to begin pulling out of Iraq a year from this fall. The resolution was sponsored by a small, bipartisan group of Congressmen, but it is a first."
2. Morning Shows Ignore Durbin, Today Hits Frist But Cues Up Clinton Senators Bill Frist and Hillary Clinton made the rounds of the morning shows Thursday to publicize their bill on medical privacy guidelines for hospitals, but none of the ABC, CBS or NBC interviewers took advantage of the opportunity to bring up Dick Durbin's allegation (see item #1 above). On CBS, Julie Chen highlighted how "Republican Congressman Walter Jones once supported the war but today he'll join a group of lawmakers calling for a firm date to withdraw U.S. forces." NBC's Matt Lauer posed a tough question to Frist about how the Terri Schiavo autopsy disproved his claim that "'she does respond,' end quote. Were you wrong in your diagnosis?" But he then cued up Clinton with how Senator Leahy says Guantanamo should be closed and asked: "Does Guantanamo serve a purpose or is it a black-eye for the United States?"
Yet here we have a Sinator calling our young men/women in the Military Nazi's and nary a raised voice.
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While I dispise Durban's remarks I am glad that the Democrats keep up their attacks. We will win more seats in 2006. As usual Rush is right.
These "mainstreamers" are shameless, Durbin will never resign.
I have seen pictures of housing in Cuba and I don't recall seeing any air conditioning units. I don't recall seeing any in Afghanistan or in Iraq.
I would say that these terrorist are perfectly comfortable at 100 degrees.
This propaganda that Durbin is putting out is for the useful idiots that support the Democratic party; the foreigners that are following his comments are probably laughing at us, air conditioning indeed !
Adolf Hitler - About 9 million dead
Soviet gulags - About 2.7 million dead
Pol Pot - About 1.7 million dead
Gitmo - zero dead
Gitmo - five instances of Koran abuse by prison guards
Gitmo-15 instances of Koran abuse by prisoners.
A rich legacy of american music, like jazz, blues.. and all the american youth(and not only youth) can come up with is RAP.?. RAP is not music in the biggest stretch of imagination.. its a talent vacuum..
I'd be curious to know what kinds of things the Gitmo detainees do to our troops. I'm quite certain there have been attempts on the lives of our soldiers, physical violence, etc. that US soldiers endure while keeping watch over these terrorists. Why won't someone talk about that???
OK, has FoxNews tracked down Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to get HIS opinion of the comparison between the Soviet Gulag and what he's read of Gitmo? If no one in the MSM has done that, they are just not interested in disproving Durbin's charges.
I think the most effective way is to email his contributers:
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.asp?CID=N00004981&cycle=2004
Hurt him where it counts!
Let's see . . .
FDR gives away Eastern Europe to Stalin
Truman loses China, protects Alger Hiss et al.
JFK messes up the Bay of Pigs
LBJ drags out Vietnam until it's the most unpopular war since the Civil War
John Kerry accuses the military of atrocities in Vietnam
Jimmy Carter gives up the Panama Canal and hands over Iran to the mullahs
Clinton ignores the growing threat of terrorism and gives the Chinese vital missile secrets
Current crop of Democrats continue to give aid and comfort to America's enemies
What else is new?
Another Freeper today posted a reminder of what was done to the Koresh people at Waco, BY JANET RENO AND A DEMOCRAT PRESIDENT: "Blasting rock music at them over loudspeakers. Cutting off their utilities (no heat, no air conditioning) for over 5o hours. Eventually, gasing them (men,women and children) resulting in death. Where was the respect for their religious beliefs?
What they did to those people was far worse than anything even infered as being done to these terrorist at Gitmo. I don't recall any words of outrage from Sen. Durbin and his lib friends.