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We knew the rats would try these tactics. They still can't get over the fact that they were DEFEATED in November. These are the tactics of desperate people.
Maybe one should consider organizing a demonstration camp on GULAG lines strictly for the purpose of re-educating leftists. And putting Michael Moore or Ted Kennedy on a compulsory GULAG diet would do them a lot of good besides reeducation.
The outrages perpetrated by the human race against itself are simply mind-boggling. We live in a time of "history lite"- for the most part we're not seeing the level of horrors seen at most times in human history. Hence the outrage over women "invading the space" of cold-blooded murderers at Gitmo.
If I knew how and had the equipment to do it I would make a commercial starting off showing Durdin speaking yesterday then as he spoke of the "torture" our military is guilty of I would show video of the nazi death camps and the mass graves in Iraq.
Then close with some dialog about the real danger he has put our troops in, because he's trying to gain some partisan political advantage.
Dick Durbin
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You forgot to mention the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Communists.
But we get you point. If you named all the totalitarians, dictators, torturers, murderers and perverts this Party has supported the list would get wearying.
The purpose of the communist-coordinated effort to compare Guantanamo to the Gulag is not just to inflate the spurious charges of Koran-bashing and air conditioning-adjustment to the level of genocide. It is intended to simultaneously re-cast the Soviet concentration and death camps as simple places of confinement for genuine enemies, as opposed to the extermination centers for the innocent that they in fact were. In this way, the communists achieve two of their most cherished objectives at one stroke - degrade the United States and rehabilitate Stalin's USSR. And by communists, I mean the "progressive" mass media, academia, Democratic Party elite in this country.
Flossenburg was spruced up with beautiful landscaping, but the main features of the camp were maintained: the guard towers, many of the buildings, and most notably the center square of the camp, where large red letters were displayed that said:
PRISONERS WERE SHOT HERE
How many prisoners have actually died at Gitmo?
Hell, I got more abuse as a "butter bar" at Jump School than these terrorists will ever get! Ask anybody about Jump School, and they'll all remember the "Nutcracker".
These attempts to compare Gitmo with gulags, concentration camps, etc. are demonstrative of intellectual laziness and are utterly contemptible. Sen. Durbin should be motivated to resign as an elected official.
From Powerline blog: "The AP reports: "Sen. Durbin stands by Guantanomo remarks." Al-Jazeera reports: "US senator stands by Nazi remark." Today Senator Durbin is probably al-Qaeda's most popular senator, although he must have some serious competition in that department (click here).
You know, will come a time when lip service is not enough? FR is great for discovery, comment and lip service. What does it take for people to become so outraged, that they say enough is enough? When do people take to the streets in MASS protest against these sicko politicians who care more about some "terrorist" sitting in a "comfortable" jail cell and less about the safety of you and me? Just gets frustrating!!!
Where is a Cinderella Leader? A leader, not some pampered politician who owes some interest group; that has suffered past having to use a dinner fork to eat his salad in a Yale or Harvard dining hall. A leader who UNDERSTANDS what it is to battle for care and safety of one's family and of one's own country.
Damn discouraging it is! Damn politicians will be the death of America's dedicated men and women who fight for the freedoms we cherish. :(