Posted on 06/16/2005 3:36:39 AM PDT by advance_copy
The Senate's No. 2 Democrat has compared the U.S. military's treatment of a suspected al Qaeda terrorist at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay with the regimes of Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin and Pol Pot, three of history's most heinous dictators, whose regimes killed millions.
In a speech on the Senate floor late Tuesday, Minority Whip Richard J. Durbin, Illinois Democrat, castigated the American military's actions by reading an e-mail from an FBI agent.
The agent complained to higher-ups that one al Qaeda suspect was chained to the floor, kept in an extremely cold air-conditioned cell and forced to hear loud rap music. The Justice Department is investigating.
About 9 million persons, including 6 million Jews, died in Hitler's death camps, 2.7 million persons died in Stalin's gulags and 1.7 million Cambodians died in Pol Pot's scourge of his country.
No prisoners have died at Guantanamo, and the Pentagon has acknowledged five instances of abuse or irreverent handling of the Koran, the holy book of Muslims.
After reading the e-mail, Mr. Durbin said, "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. Sadly, that is not the case. This was the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners."
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ah yess, so we have a death camp.
right.
and how 'productive' has our little death camp been thus far?
What you say?
No one murdered there yet, in what? Two years.
Some death camp.
Just goes to show you, our government can louse any project up... even a death camp.
so much for our ability to follow in hitler's shoes eh?
'Death Camp'? No, I don't think so.
'Hype Camp'. That's more like it.
Any doubt that this particular FBI agent has roots in the party of leftists? My word, kept in the cold and forced to hear load rap music while being chained to the floor. Like a walk in the park compared to any day of basic training. These clowns really do need to get real.
Is there a Democrat left in Washington who isn't a complete fool?
The American left, Arlen Spector and all the other idiots can scream all they want. It should all fall on deaf ears.
Screw them, they aren't in charge.
I believe the DC Chapter should freep Senator "Dachau" Durbin's office and deliver some women panties to him so that next time he trashes our troops on the Senate floor he can wear a pair on his head.
The agent complained to higher-ups that one al Qaeda suspect was chained to the floor, kept in an extremely cold air-conditioned cell and forced to hear loud rap music.I bet a considerable number of today's teenagers would pay to be treated like that... "It's the Gitmo Club; totally cool, d00d!"
Let's see....
People beheaded by US government = 0
People beheaded by our terroist enemies... a whole hell of a lot more!!!
This blatant, anti-American rhetoric has got to stop. When will the Dems realize that?
EVERY FReeper must convey outrage over Durbin Laden's comments to Sen. Frist, who is the leader of the Senate, and who should have already remanded that these disgraceful comments be taken down. This does nothing but heap further discredit on that lackluster body, the weakest link in our government. I have already sent him my request that he act on this TODAY.
How in the world does this idiot get "death camp" when not a single prisoner has died?
Democrats have completely lost their minds. every time they open their mouths they confirm that they are not capable of running the country.
Not that it will ever happen, as the RATS will circle the wagons, but Durbin should be censured and kicked out of the Senate for such idiotic, un-American comments. If nothing else, it will force these useful idiots to reveal where they truly stand.
If they can't have things their way they don't care if it dies.
Washington Democrat / fool...
There's a difference?
Dick Durbin's Contact Information
Web Site: durbin.senate.gov
E-mail: dick@durbin.senate.gov
Washington Office:
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Washington, D.C. 20510-1304
Phone: (202) 224-2152
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Main District Office:
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Phone: (312) 353-4952
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Eloquently put! Possibly not strong enough though! He is a traitor and a BIG POS!
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