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Durbin said what?
Chicago Tribune ^ | June 17, 2005

Posted on 06/17/2005 12:39:17 PM PDT by NewMediaFan

Here we thought Sen. Dick Durbin had a cushy job that he likes. Truth told, he's auditioning for the job of Speechwriter/Silly Similes at Amnesty International.

Last month the human rights group called on the U.S. to close the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. But it was the organization's breathy rhetoric--it called the prison "the gulag of our times"--that got all the attention. Amnesty was roundly criticized...

So Amnesty looked clever--until it looked clumsy. But the group got what it wanted: a lot of attention. Indeed, leaders of Amnesty acknowledged that that was the goal all along.

Enter Durbin, second-ranking Democrat in the U.S. Senate. In a Senate speech Tuesday, Durbin raked Bush administration officials over the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo. He read an account by an unnamed FBI agent of the alleged treatment of a prisoner who was "chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor, with no chair, food or water." The prisoner, the agent said, had been subject to extremely hot and cold temperatures, and loud rap music.

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Nazis? Soviets? Pol Pot? Mad regimes?

Durbin's comparison of U.S. interrogators to governments that together killed millions of people makes him look desperate for attention. Well, he's created a lot of discussion about Dick Durbin. We suspect that was the goal all along.

Perhaps, though, citizens should be grateful. At least Durbin has stopped repeating that odd little joke about President Lincoln--that he must have been Jewish because his first name was Abraham and he was shot in the temple.

We know what Durbin thinks about the treatment of Guantanamo prisoners. So what's the proper treatment of our coverage-hungry senior senator when he displaces the ever-present microphone long enough to insert his foot in his mouth? Ignore him. That would be torture.

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1 posted on 06/17/2005 12:39:17 PM PDT by NewMediaFan
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To: NewMediaFan
This was more than just typical lib arm-waving. Durbin was purposely spewing hate-speech at our service personnel. It was beyond an attempt to get attention. He was intentionally slandering the Gitmo personnel. And they wonder why we question their patriotism.

P.S. HILLARY: Your "no comment" on this is assumed to be agreement.

2 posted on 06/17/2005 12:44:25 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: NewMediaFan
...and he was shot in the temple.

MAN, not only is this 'RAT' as sick as Hannibal Lecter...He don't know his own country's history.

John Wilkes Booth shot President Licoln from behind, which means than the bullet would have entered through Abraham Lincoln's cerebral cortex (or am I mixing brain sections?).

3 posted on 06/17/2005 12:47:10 PM PDT by ExcursionGuy84 ("I will declare the Beauty of The LORD.")
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To: NewMediaFan

Well, in very muted defense of Durbin, I don't think we'd be too pleased if we heard that some of the things he described were being done to Americans. But he does seem to have gotten a little carried away.


4 posted on 06/17/2005 12:49:07 PM PDT by Grut
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To: NewMediaFan

I stopped by Senator Gregg's office and asked one of his staffers to pass on the message that mere censure is too good a fate for Durbin, that they should restore the old 1800's tradition of tar, feathers, and a rail full of splinters on which to run him out of town.


5 posted on 06/17/2005 12:49:20 PM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: NewMediaFan

I'm with Durbin. Rap music is torture. /s


6 posted on 06/17/2005 12:49:38 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to be managed by central planning.)
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To: NewMediaFan
"At least Durbin has stopped repeating that odd little joke about President Lincoln--that he must have been Jewish because his first name was Abraham and he was shot in the temple. "

Very funny, you pig-like, traitorous, libelous, buffoonish, vile, loathsome, profoundly dishonest, obstructionist, corrupt, deceitful, anti-American, devisive, manipulative fecal-mass-pretending-to-be-a-human.


7 posted on 06/17/2005 12:49:39 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (Honoring Saint Jude's assistance every day.)
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To: ExcursionGuy84
(or am I mixing brain sections?)

Not as thoroughly as Booth did.

8 posted on 06/17/2005 12:50:51 PM PDT by Grut
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To: FormerACLUmember
..Very funny, you pig-like, traitorous, libelous, buffoonish, vile, loathsome, profoundly dishonest, obstructionist, corrupt, deceitful, anti-American, devisive, manipulative fecal-mass-pretending-to-be-a-human

Michael Savage is a Freeper!

9 posted on 06/17/2005 12:51:58 PM PDT by SGCOS
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To: anniegetyourgun
Hillary supported him with a request for a Gitmo investigation commission! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1424956/posts
10 posted on 06/17/2005 12:54:56 PM PDT by debg
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To: SGCOS

i'll take that as a compliment!


11 posted on 06/17/2005 12:56:00 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (Honoring Saint Jude's assistance every day.)
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To: ExcursionGuy84

Abe's Jewish...shot in the temple. Figure it out.


12 posted on 06/17/2005 12:56:00 PM PDT by toddlintown (Your papers please.)
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To: NewMediaFan

Durbin's name is now Mudd.


13 posted on 06/17/2005 12:59:07 PM PDT by Ciexyz (Let us always remember, the Lord is in control.)
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To: NewMediaFan

Yeah, well Ayman Al-Zawahiri just released a diatribe through Al Jazeera saying that Guantanamo has to go. So, I figure he can join Durbin, Martinez, Pelosi, Boxer (uwww she makes my skin crawl) and all the other whackos to lobby for it's closure.

Besides that, it's staying open anyway. All the liberals will probably go there to protest now and get arrested by Fidel. Hell, they'd probably love it.

I want Sean Penn to be the Jane Fonda of this war. He could have pics taken of himself with a turban on his head setting up a roadside bomb.


14 posted on 06/17/2005 1:00:59 PM PDT by NHAntiMassRedRebel (Our only fault is that we're 40 minutes north of Boston.)
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To: Ciexyz
Durbin's name is now Mudd.

No, his name is now 'Turdbin'

15 posted on 06/17/2005 1:03:26 PM PDT by austinite
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To: anniegetyourgun

I read this editorial in our paper this a.m.
It was THIRD at the bottom of the page. The other 2 edits were apparently more important to the Trib's writers today.

If this was one of Turbin Durbin's 'normal' attempts to get attention, the trib would be correct.
But this subject is not something to giggle quietly over, Ms./Mr. editorial writer!!!
Shame on you.


16 posted on 06/17/2005 1:12:52 PM PDT by meema
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To: Grut
Well, in very muted defense of Durbin, I don't think we'd be too pleased if we heard that some of the things he described were being done to Americans. But he does seem to have gotten a little carried away.

I would be very pleased if that was all they have done and are doing to Americans. How about the following they have done to us and our allies:
BEHEADING
BURNING ALIVE
DEAD BURNED BODY HUNG FROM BRIDGE
OUR DEAD URNINATED ON
KILL 3000+ WITH SUICIDE AIRPLANES
BLOW UP THE USS COLE
BOMB THE MARINE BARRACKS IN BERUIT YEARS AGO
BURNING AUSTRALIAN TOURISTS ALIVE IN A NIGHT CLUB IN BALI (ABOUT 200)
SENDING BOYS AND WOMEN TO AID STATIONS WITH BOMBS

17 posted on 06/17/2005 1:13:20 PM PDT by cpdiii (Oil Field Trash, Roughneck, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist, (OIL FIELD TRASH was fun))
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I was just about to post the same thing. These dirtbag prisoners in Gitmo are living much better, on the whole, than our troops in the ME.


18 posted on 06/17/2005 1:17:06 PM PDT by Sterm26 (Recount Pennsylvania! (And Wisconsin!))
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To: NewMediaFan
Durbin needs his own talk show. This guy makes me so proud to be a Republican I got out my Bush/Cheney 04 magnetic bumper sticker to put back on the gas hog!!
19 posted on 06/17/2005 1:19:12 PM PDT by BallyBill ("Yes Senator, as a matter of fact I AM questioning your Patriotism!!)
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Too bad that Illinois Republicans have no one to take his place.


20 posted on 06/17/2005 1:26:45 PM PDT by ClaireSolt (.)
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