Daley says Durbin Should Apologize for Guantanamo Remarks (King Richard II is NOT amused!)

WQAD [Moline, IL] ^ | June 21, 2005 | The Associated Press

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Chicago Chicago Mayor Richard Daley says Senator Dick Durbin should apologize for comments comparing American interrogators at Guantanamo Bay to Nazis.

Daley says Durbin — a fellow Democrat — is a good friend. But he says it's wrong to evoke comparisons to the horrors of the Holocaust or the millions of people killed in Russia under Stalin or in Cambodia under Pol Pot.

And Daley says it's a disgrace to accuse military men and women of such conduct.

Last Friday, Durbin said he regretted any misunderstandings caused by his comments earlier in the week.

He made the comparison after reading an F-B-I agent's report describing detainees at the Naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as being chained to the floor without food or water in extreme temperatures.

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I heard a sound clip of Daley's comments, and he sounded highly cheesed-off about what Durbin said.

[AzaleaCity5691]

Isn't it a bad thing to piss off a Daley if you're a Democrat in Illinois?

[Mikey_1962]

Daley controls the purse strings.......

[tractorman]

Did you hear him pounding his fist on the podium?
His voice got so high and squeaky only dogs could hear him.

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AzaleaCity5691 wrote: Isn't it a bad thing to piss off a Daley if you're a Democrat in Illinois?

It's not considered a career-enhancing move.

[NeoCaveman]

Call or email your Senators and Senator Frist and ask for them to sponsor a censure resolution against Durbin. I did.

[Let's Roll]

Translation cuz turbin ain't right bright:

Get your butt in front of a microphone and get these f'n people off my back.

[mystery-ak]

Daley's son just enlisted not too long ago.....I imagine this is why he's mad.

[TheDon]

It's a start. And yet, the Simon Wiesenthal Center finds Senator Durbin's comments acceptable.

[niteowl77]

I'm proud as can be to have a child who volunteered to serve, and when some politician (a worthless Senator no less) compares him to a Buchenwald or Lubyanka goon, I get mad as hell. It doesn't matter if the pol is a Democrat, a Republican or one of the also-rans.

Maybe Daley feels the same.

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quidnunc Did you hear him pounding his fist on the podium? His voice got so high and squeaky only dogs could hear him.

Yes, it sounded like his voice was almost about to break.

Whether he was sincere or not is another question.

[Howlin]

No kidding?

[retrokitten]

He sounds like Mickey Mouse when he gets really mad.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Bingo

[sirthomasthemore]

The GOP should move to censure or expel this guy.

It doesn't matter if we have the votes or not. We need a public debate on the current Dem tactic of undermining our national security for their political interests.

GOP= patriots and anti-terrorism versus DEM= appeasers,and weakening our efforts against terrorism. Hammer it home at every opportunity, and in an official public forum. DEMS ARE INVITING ANOTHER TERRORIST ATTACKS BY THEIR IRRESPONSIBLE RHETORIC.

It's the right thing to do for the country- and it is also the politically smart thing to do.

[68skylark]

Thanks for this information -- until I read this I didn't know that Daley (or any Democrat) had called on Durbin to apologize. I think this is a bad sign for Durbin.

[Eastbound]

If Daley would have made his comments much earlier, Durbin would no doubt have offered a 'genuine' apology immediately. If that had happened , no furor, no unwinding of the dummy party.

Daley finally saw the darkness at the end of the tunnel, but alas, too late. The lone candle lighting the way of the 'rats has been extinguished.

From now on, it's going to be 'bump, scurry, bump, scurry.'

[DM1]

"GOP= patriots and anti-terrorism versus DEM= appeasers,and weakening our efforts against terrorism. Hammer it home at every opportunity, and in an official public forum. DEMS ARE INVITING ANOTHER TERRORIST ATTACKS BY THEIR IRRESPONSIBLE RHETORIC. "
exactly
when people hear bitch and moan that Republicans and Democrats are the same i try to remind them of this little fact.

[justshutupandtakeit]

I have been wondering when Daley would be asked about this and that he would not take DDs insanity with good humor.

[yobid]

This is just a Daley tactic to deflect the deep Sh*t he's in with all the scandals and guilty pleas in his administration. Whatever it takes to smokescreen.