Posted on 06/19/2005 2:37:10 AM PDT by mal
Throughout the last campaign season, senior Democrats had a standard line in their speeches, usually delivered with righteous anger, about how "nobody has a right to question my patriotism!" Given that nobody was questioning their patriotism, it seemed an odd thing to harp on about. But, aware of their touchiness on the subject, I hasten to add that in what follows I am not questioning Dick Durbin's patriotism, at least not for the first couple of paragraphs. Instead, I'll begin by questioning his sanity.
Last Tuesday, Senator Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, quoted a report of U.S. "atrocities" at Guantanamo and then added:
"If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime -- Pol Pot or others -- that had no concern for human beings."
Er, well, your average low-wattage senator might. But I wouldn't. The "atrocities" he enumerated -- "Not only was the temperature unbearably hot, but extremely loud rap music was being played in the room" -- are not characteristic of the Nazis, the Soviets or Pol Pot, and, at the end, the body count in Gitmo was a lot lower. That's to say, it was zero, which would have been counted a poor day's work in Auschwitz or Siberia or the killing fields of Cambodia.
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Thanks, but I'm just encouraging the same idea put forth by many others, including Newt Gingrich.
Actually, no, Senator Dumbass. Unless I weren't listening carefully, I wouldn't have believed anything of the sort, and for an obvious reason. (Although apparently not obvious to an idiot or a reflexive America hater.) The description had the prisoner tied in a "fetal position."
Now, granted that one might experience considerable pain if kept in this position for a long time, the pain would be from MUSCLE CRAMPS fer crying out loud and not, for instance, from the dislocation of shoulders or the tearing of muscles and tendons. The later occurs when one is bound in certain ways with the arms and legs hyperextented BEHIND the body; the OPPOSITE of the "fetal position".
I challenge Senator Dumbass to thumb through the available photographic catalog of Nazi, Soviet and Cambodian interrogation atrocities and report the percentage of prisoners shown bound in a "fetal position".
Besides, besides the odiousness of his comparison, I disagree wholly and unapologetically with Senator Dumbass' entire sentiment. Frankly (and I suspect the overwhelming majority of Americans are with me on this) it doesn't bother me even a little that the "twentieth hijacker" spent a day or three bound on the floor, part of the time lying in his own excrement. If he'd actually been tortured, I'd have some pause, but the attitude adjusting, mentally disorienting discomfort measures the 'Rats call torture seem perfectly appropriate.
I'm only enraged that we've been driven by this nonsense to overcompensate to such an absurd degree. As I understand an interrogator nows needs specific approval from Rumsfeld to engage in "light pushing" or to thump a prisoner in the chest with his finger; and likewise to offer favors like chocolates. Interrogators have been stripped of sticks and carrots, and still the 'Rats and anti-American moonbats wail and moan.
Un-freakin'-believable.
Ping
I live in Illinois and it is NOT unbelieveable that Durbin is in the Senate. Illinois is the California of the midwest - going totally socialist/democrat. The corrupt democrats of Chicago have expanded their reach and ruined this state.
I don't know what the process is in Illinois for recalling a senator but I would urge the citizens of Ill. to pursue it.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
If they don't get it back, they were obviously robbed, or the people are too stupid to recognize their obvious superiority.
They can't understand why their inherent right of rule is denied. They see themselves as the brightest, the smartest and that everyone should defer to them to tell them what to do/think.
They're elitist, arrogant and condescending.
And as for you...just how has your lovely self been doing my dear? Long time no see your erudite comments. U been kicking butt and taking names? ;->
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