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Durbin apologizes for his remarks last week. developing nothing follows. :)

AS OF NOW, REPUBLICANS ARE RIPPING DURBIN ON THE HOUSE FLOOR.

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...

Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), who angered Republicans by comparing the Guantanamo Bay prison camp to Nazis, Soviet gulags, and Pol Pot's killers in Cambodia, apologized on the Senate floor Tuesday. "Mr. President, I've come to understand that was a poor choice of words," said Durbin. "Last Friday, I tried to make this very clear that I understood that those analogies - the Nazis, Soviets, and others - were poorly chosen. I issued a release, which I thought made my intentions and my innermost feelings as clear as I possibly could," added Durbin. Durbin's apology comes after Senate Majority Leader Bill...

DURBIN APOLOGIZES ON SENATE FLOOR FOR GUANTANAMO BAY ANALOGIES Tuesday, June 21, 2005 [WASHINGTON, DC] – U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today made the following statement on the floor of the United States Senate: “More than most people, a Senator lives by his words, words are the coin of the realm in our profession. Occasionally words will fail us and occasionally we will fail words.” “On June 14, I took the floor of the Senate to speak about genuine heartfelt concerns about the treatment of prisoners and detainees at Guantanamo and other places. I raised legitimate concerns that others have...

he following is a statement by RNC Press Secretary on Senator Biden's attack on the progress in Iraq: "Senator Biden's gloomy view of the significant progress made in Iraq should earn him the title of Pessimist in Chief. While his pessimism is nothing new, it ignores that facts. Freedom is on the march in Iraq and Biden's flawed rhetoric is nothing more than political pandering in an effort to grab headlines." -- RNC Press Secretary Tracey Schmitt -- Sen. Joe Biden's (D-Del.) Predictions On Iraq -- Sen. Biden's Pessimistic Predictions On The Iraqi Elections: Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.): "The Elections...

Oh how the mighty have fallen. A few days ago the DUmmies were in ecstasy because Senator Dick DUrbin wouldn’t apologize for his idiotic remarks comparing the pampered treatment of the terrorist Gitmo detainees to prisoners of the Nazis and Soviets. However, much to their great anguish, Durbin has offered a sort of apology for his stupidity a few hours ago. It wasn’t much of an apology but it was enough to set off extreme DUmmie rage at their former hero, Durbin, as you can see in this THREAD titled, “Durbin Caves.” As usual the DUmmie frustration as they...

"More than 1700 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq and our country’s standing in the world community has been badly damaged by the prison abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. My statement in the Senate was critical of the policies of this Administration which add to the risk our soldiers face.” “I will continue to speak out when I disagree with this Administration.” “I have learned from my statement that historical parallels can be misused and misunderstood. I sincerely regret if what I said caused anyone to misunderstand my true feelings: our soldiers around the world and their families...