Posted on 06/16/2005 9:49:10 AM PDT by MikeA
CHICAGO Illinois Senator Dick Durbin says he won't apologize for comments comparing American interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Nazis and Soviet gulags.
News of the Democrat's comparison created a buzz around the Internet today, fueled by sound bites of yesterday's Senate floor speech on radio talk shows. By this afternoon, Illinois Republican Party Chairman Andy McKenna asked Durbin to apologize.
Durbin says the Bush administration should apologize for abandoning the Geneva Conventions.
Human-rights activist groups and some lawmakers -- mostly Democrats -- want Bush to close the prison.
But administration officials say some of the people who have been detained at Guantanamo later return to fight against the United States.
I like that idea!
Turban Durbin is the new Al Jazeera poster jihadi.
Senator Durbin and your support of him
Dear Sir,
Until I hear that you have publicly denounced Senator Dick Durbin's comments comparing the US Military and the Guantánamo Bay facility to Nazi and Soviet concentration camps I will take my several thousand dollars annually of prescriptions elsewhere.
He is a disgrace and so are you if you support him.
(sfgeo)
Dear Senator Durbin:
I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid, so stupid it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. Nothing in our universe can really be this stupid. Perhaps this is some primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid. Some pure essence of a stupid so uncontaminated by anything else as to be beyond the laws of physics that we know. I'm sorry. I can't go on. This is an epiphany of stupid for me.
It may be the last chance for a power grab.Or
..my guess is
that these Democrats are trying to look reprehensible so
that Hillary can appear moderate and concilatory,
the good cop/bad cop scenario. It won't be the first,
or last time someone takes a hit for the Clintons.
By the way, what info was in those stolen FBI files that the
Clintons have, on their "fellow" Democrats? Could they be
using information they have to blackmail their own party?
I wonder.
That might explain why Democrats seem to be self-destructing
lately....(i.e. get out of way of Hillary, and make her look
good, or else we will leak information about your nefarious
deals..)
IL Durbin, Richard D SR '92 for/against 46% 34% '05 for/against 50% 34% change +4% net change +0%
He doesn't need to apologize, he needs to resign in disgrace and mediate about it for a bit in Tora Bora.
This is great! Let this bozo label the democrats for what they really are .. anti-America, anti-Military.
332 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Senator Durbin:
Your comparing the US' terrorist prison at Guantanamo to Hitler’s concentration camps and US servicepeople to Nazis is unforgivable. My father’s family was murdered by the Nazis. For you to compare that horror to making a prisoner wear a pair of panties on his head or be kept-up all night for questioning is stupefying. That you would compare our armed forces and its leadership to that of Stalin, Hitler, and Pol Pot makes me seriously wonder if you have an unreported head injury or are suffering from dementia. It must not have escaped your notice that Al Jazeera is dancing in the streets over your remarks and has them headlined on their website. Your stupid, cruel remarks have given the enemy aid and comfort in a time of war and increased the danger to our servicepeople on the front lines.
I note from your biography that military service is conspicuously absent, and in fact, you seem to have spent your entire life as a politician. I served two tours in Vietnam. You remember Vietnam, don’t you, Senator? A war we were prevented from winning by people like you – those who sought to defeat the US through propaganda, lies, and direct attacks on the nation’s politics.
Shame on you and shame upon the Democratic Party. You are the person of whom Mills spoke, when he said, "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
In closing, let me give you advice from another great American, Samuel Adams, "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
Sincerely,
Kenneth B. Sherman
CDR, USNR (Ret.)
North Grafton, MA
IP568@charter.net
If this post was misunderstood as being posted by Commander Galanti, I apologize.
I'm not Cdr.Galanti.
I'm just a humble man who has not done as much as the Commander.
The letter was sent to a friend of mine, and the Commander asked for "Maximum Exposure". So, I posted the Cdr's lettet.
Sorry for the confusion.
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