Durbin 'regrets' Gitmo remarks

Washington Times ^ | 6/18/06 | Rowan Scarborough

[TomasUSMC]

It would be so refreshing if one of the few Congressmen or Senators went up and just knocked his teeth out.

[shibumi]

Thanks for the link.

Aggressive venting to follow.

[Cyber Liberty]

Bring your friends. I'm popping corn....

[Babu]

Trent Lott was forced to resign his leadership position over a relatively innocuous comment at a birthday party.

Therefore Dick Durbin must resign the Senate over his infinitely more outrageous, not to mention traitorous and lying comments about our military on the floor of the US Senate.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Don't hesitate to let Turbin Durban know how you feel. You can send him a quick email here:"

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Dear Senator Durbin:

Please review the following photographs. You have placed the American soldier on equal footing with the monsters who did these things, so please do not gloss over or ignore them:

Now Senator Durbin, do you really believe that anything done by our servicemen at Guantanamo, or Abu Ghraib is remotely tantamount to the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis? If you don't believe this to be true, why would you deliberately lie about such things? Are your lies the result of ignorance, or something more insidious?

To me, the act of comparing American Soldiers to nazis is incomprehensible, and although I know far better than to expect the truth from you regarding your reasoning, I would suggest that there is no reason you could provide that does not call into serious question your fitness for continued service as a member of the US Senate. Only your full and unqualified retraction of your remarks can preserve any dignity you may have ever had.

Sincerely,

Just Another American

[LZ_Bayonet]

"Durbin is just the usual arrogant democRAT who has defamed our honorable men and women in the Armed Forces."

Maybe this is not just a side-effect. Maybe the REAL motivation for his comments is to undermine the war effort by damaging military recruitment and re-enlistment. By linking our military activity with Nazi's etc., he is shaping a negative and less respectful image of our military, in order to discourage recruitment. He knew it would generate a firestorm and was counting on the constant broadcast of his comments to achieve this end.