Posted on 06/18/2005 6:45:27 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
Vice President Dick Cheney slammed number two Senate Democrat Dick Durbin on Friday, saying his comparison of U.S. troops to Nazis was so "appalling" that he had to watch his language while discussing it.
Asked about Durbin's outburst, Cheney began by telling WWTN Nashville radio host Steve Gill: " I'm sure [this] a family program, Steve. I have to be careful what I say."
Then the VP leveled both barrels at the reckless Democrat's complaint that Guantanamo detainees are subject to Nazi-like treatment.
"I thought Durbin was totally out of line," Cheney said. "For him to make those comparisons was one of the more egregious things I'd ever heard uttered on the floor of the United States Senate . . . It was so far over the top that I'm just appalled that anybody who serves in the United States Senate would even think those thoughts."
Cheney said that Durbin couldn't be more wrong about how the GI prison guards behaved
"The fact of the matter," he told Gill, "is the situation at Guantanamo is being very well handled by our military. . . . [The terrorist detainees] are well housed. They're well fed. Their religious needs and desires are catered to. They're not being tortured or mistreated, but they are a major source of intelligence for us. Plus, we need to keep them off the streets."
Cheney reminded the Nashville audience that the Guantanamo guards have to handle some pretty rough customers.
"Remember what's happened here," he told Gill. "These are terrorists, these are bomb-makers. . . . these are hard-core terrorists is the only way to describe them. They're unlawful combatants. They're out to kill Americans. And if you put them back on the streets, that's exactly what they'll do."
The VP said it's clear that Durbin's comments have his fellow Democrats squirming, and hinted that he thought the scandal may force the top Democrat to walk the plank.
"I think they're swallowing hard," he told Gill. "We'll see what happens."
No apology here, and no "misunderstanding" either!
What Durbin and all the other Democratic Partisans are doing during this critical time of war against extremist terrorists is consistent with President George Washington's Farewell admonition regarding what he identified as the danger of the "spirit of Party."
Hear this small excerpt from that dire warning:
". . .the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it."
"It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions."
Historically knowledgeable "wise people" have complained about Durbin's partisan-motivated public statements, which are either uninformed or deliberately intended to damage his country's President's effort to contain and wage a dangerous war against tyranny.
And, he claims they "misunderstood" him????
If the accusatory and inflammatory remarks of Dean, Durbin, Kennedy, Biden, and other partisans are allowed to stand, unchallenged by a "wise people," then we must conclude that the decades-long failure to teach and learn the Founders' principles, and the means by which they can be subverted, has succeeded!
Dems know that US Education = "The Hindenburg."
They don't SAY that, however. They just say it "needs reforms".
So why do Durbin & the Dems feel comfortable taking the step, the leap, of asserting Bush & our military = Hitler/Stalin?
Instead of just saying, "we just need to be careful abuses don't occur," -- something like that?
What's been said by Durbin is waaaaaaaaaaay over the top.
It's treasonous.
This situation is beneath the response that the VP gave. Durbin ought to be called a simple, shimmering moron. A man making such a comment as Durbin's is not deserving of even slight respect.
Exactly. There was too much respect for Durbin and the situation in his response. I'm sure he doesn't feel that respect, but a measured response only gives his sorry ass cover. I think the VP should have called Durbin a steaming, stinking pile of horse manure, or the equivalent.
I must say ............. I'm 'Appalled' by Durbin's breathing.
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Dirtbin needs a strong rope and a nice tree.
I totally agree!
"I think the VP should have called Durbin a steaming, stinking pile of horse manure, or the equivalent."
Just so. There comes a time, in ALL relations, personal, or political, when a man stands up and stops all discourse and agenda with the words "Take it back". These words, uttered with the justifiable and fully felt anger of the heart and soul compel a response one way or another. But I doubt there is anyone in American politics today who has the balls to stop at a line and go no further--because no one is in control of or knows what happens next.
They are all moral cowards.
It was on the TV in the family room and I was eating breakfast in the kitchen. I can't say, but I'm sure Julian was lapping it up. That RATner woman makes me physically ill.
Perhaps the democrats need to quit reading democrat underground, move-on dot org and the A.N.S.W.E.R. web sites, and start recalling who it is, which nation it is that they work for.
As a matter of fact it is 180 degrees different. I don't expect you understand the law and the calls to adhere to it. For what, in excess of five years is it?, you still are unable to show that you can comprehend this concept.
No they called him Baghdad something, but I forgot his name.
DoughtyOne wrote:
It's kind of hard to envision Durbin being forced to walk the plank when 75% of the Democrats in the Senate and the House think he's hit the bullseye.
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Yes and thats the part that Democrats and their leadership just don't get.
I agree.
I agree.
But, of course Durbin can have a trial first.
True.
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