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An Open Letter to Illinois Senator Dick Durbin
Vance Hughes

Posted on 06/16/2005 1:03:07 PM PDT by Right-Headed

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To: Darkwolf377

The Senator's resignation from the Senate is the only acceptable outcome. Shame and an apology is not near enough. How many will die because of his irresponsibility?


21 posted on 06/16/2005 1:23:16 PM PDT by paguch
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If Senate Republicans had any courage they would introduce a censure resolution. Then any RAT who voted against it could be characterized as agreeing with Durbin's comments.

They must be smart enough to figure that out, but do they have the courage to do it? (Never mind...rehetorical question.)

22 posted on 06/16/2005 1:23:36 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Liberals preach comity and practice calumny.)
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To: Moral Hazard

Actually, don't think the absence of the President or Vice-President coming out on Dick Durbin's comments isn't calculated. You know the old saying, "Give them enough rope..."? I wouldn't doubt the Administration let's this go for a while and see who on the Democrat side denounces Durbin. Then let the feeding begin.

Besides, you know Mayor Daley's son just graduated from Army boot camp. He's verrrry proud of his son. Want to bet Durbin gets an earful from the Mayor? I tell you, this might get very interesting before it's over.


23 posted on 06/16/2005 1:24:18 PM PDT by twoputt
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To: sarasotarepublican

I wonder how Durbin's constituents would feel had they personally been attacked by terrorists. What would dicky boy say then?


24 posted on 06/16/2005 1:25:34 PM PDT by jess35
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To: Right-Headed
Dear Mr. Durbin:

As an Illinois voter, I am very disturbed by your remarks on the senate floor comparing our activities to those of the Nazi's.

Not only are you greatly exaggerating, but also by making statements like that you are putting our men and women who are on the front lines in greater danger.

I beg of you to retract those statements and resign as a U.S. Senator before more American's die. PLEASE rise above politics and realize the danger of your statements.
25 posted on 06/16/2005 1:26:14 PM PDT by IL Republican
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To: Ron in Acreage

Some punk was on this site earlier about claiming Bush was guilty of war crimes...

To fools like Durbin...everyone is guilty of war crimes, except those that actually commit war crimes...such claims make him feel better at night, and he doesnt have to worry about retaliation from the real bad guys, which would go to any length to kill him.

So, as Dean, Hillary, and their ilk know, it is much easier on the ole health to make a false accusation against the good guys...gets them press...and band wagon fans. Durbin needs to be shamed.


26 posted on 06/16/2005 1:27:03 PM PDT by in hoc signo vinces ("Soylent green is people!")
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To: bushbuddy

I'm trying to gauge how big of a faupax it was today. Has it been covered on any of the networks? I know Rush featured the posting of Durbin's comments in Al Jazeera. How big has the outcry been?

nick


27 posted on 06/16/2005 1:27:45 PM PDT by nikos1121
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To: IL Republican

good letter. i sent mine here also:

http://durbin.senate.gov/submissionconfirmation.htm


28 posted on 06/16/2005 1:29:12 PM PDT by nikos1121
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To: Darkwolf377

There is a third possibility; he represents elements whose motives are at odds with the security of the United States.


29 posted on 06/16/2005 1:30:41 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: bushbuddy

"Actually, don't think the absence of the President or Vice-President coming out on Dick Durbin's comments isn't calculated. You know the old saying, "Give them enough rope..."? I wouldn't doubt the Administration let's this go for a while and see who on the Democrat side denounces Durbin. Then let the feeding begin. "

Did you see this?



http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=3483986


30 posted on 06/16/2005 1:32:03 PM PDT by nikos1121
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To: Right-Headed
Anyone know how that strategy of reaching out to the NASCAR crowd going??

Pray for W and Our Troops

31 posted on 06/16/2005 1:32:35 PM PDT by bray (Pray for Iraq's Freedom from Mohammad)
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To: Ron in Acreage

Someone needs to ask ole "Dick"

If this truly was a Nazi regime...would he be allowed to make such comments? Why is he not being hung now?

ohhhh...cuz dick, this a nazi regime doesnt run this country. I am so sick of people like this guy.


32 posted on 06/16/2005 1:33:57 PM PDT by in hoc signo vinces ("Soylent green is people!")
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To: Darkwolf377

Senator Durbin is one of the reasons the Demosocialist party is in decline.


33 posted on 06/16/2005 1:34:19 PM PDT by R.W.Ratikal
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To: in hoc signo vinces

You are being silly. Everyone knows that soylent green is just a nutritious snack cookie made from ocean plankton. Dick Durban said so.


34 posted on 06/16/2005 1:36:15 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Right-Headed

Sen. "Turban" Durbin

35 posted on 06/16/2005 1:36:51 PM PDT by theDentist (The Dems have put all their eggs in one basket-case: Howard "Belltower" Dean.)
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To: nikos1121

They ran the tape several times this morning on the Fox News Channel. Dirty Dick MUST RESIGN IN SHAME .... NOW .... RESIGN RESIGN RESIGN !!!!!


36 posted on 06/16/2005 1:37:09 PM PDT by Highest Authority
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To: nikos1121
Office Locations

Washington, DC
332 Dirksen Senate Bldg.
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-2152
(202) 228-0400 - fax

Chicago
230 South Dearborn St.
Suite 3892
Chicago, IL 60604
(312) 353-4952
(312) 353-0150 - fax

Springfield
525 South 8th St.
Springfield, IL 62703
(217 ) 492-4062
(217) 492-4382 - fax

Marion
701 N. Court St.
Marion, IL 62959
(618) 998-8812
(618) 997-0176 - fax

Send a message online
http://durbin.senate.gov/contact.cfm


37 posted on 06/16/2005 1:37:37 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Andrew Heyward's got to go!)
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To: RushCrush
unreal, this member of the US Senate makes the two trollop senatros from Maine look like patriots.

Even Olympia Snowe and Susie Collins wouldn't publicly say anything like this Dubbin did.

38 posted on 06/16/2005 1:38:23 PM PDT by newsgatherer
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To: Right-Headed

If Durbin thinks we're Nazi's, he should resign quickly so that the War Crimes tribunal will go easy on him, what with his position in the Senate and all.


39 posted on 06/16/2005 1:38:29 PM PDT by Bosco (Remember how you felt on September 11?)
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To: Right-Headed

While Dick Durbin's rhetoric is just the latest outrage in a series of outrageous comments coming from elected Democrat politicians, these damaging outburts aren't new. From Patty Murray's defense of OBL and his philanthropic/humanitarian adventures...to Jim McDerott's visit to Iraq, in an effort to present Saddam as an honest broker, the Democrats have chosen sides with the devil. One has to wonder just what their objective is, here.

How else can you explain liberals who are defending, what is an essence, the most conservative ideology on the planet? Everything Islam stands for...whether its extreme nationalism and cultural purity, oppression of women and children or its dictatorial theocracy were God is the State; everything this ideology espouses is generally diametrically opposed to by liberals. Yet, for some reason, these liberals (and elected politicians) have not only defended this culture, they've attacked those who have acted like the real progressives in an attempt to advance some sort of reformation or enlightenment.

This has got to be one of the greatest hypocrisies on the planet. The very social injustices that liberals claim to care so much about in this country are ignored by them in these oppressive regimes. The very religious conservatism they hate in this country is excused as part of their cultural identity in the Mid-East. At the same time that they promote Multiculturalism as this great Utopian ideal, they redicule anyone (especially the USA) for daring to bring "Islam" into the 21st Century...and introduce them to new cultures.

As we welcome waves of immigrants from other lands...as other countries are even invited to invest in our nation, liberals see such a reciprocation in the Mid-East as a violation of their ethnic purity. Hell, I recently read a journalist's article who called the terrorists, "heroic" for wanting to protect their cultural identity. Excuse me! If America were to ever embrace these same attitudes, it would be these same liberals accusing us of racism and genocide...just as they are doing to us now for simply wanting to defend our borders.

These people can't even smell their own hypocrisy they are so ignorant: They essentially despise this country for attempting to spread progressive values to the Mid-East...yet they don't see anything wrong with that policy as they attempt to do the exact same thing in this country. Just think about this for a minute: Liberals are defending, and in some cases, making excuses for the very hatred and violence emminating from the Mid-East; a hatred that is rooted in one of the most conservative ideologies in the world; a conservative ideology that is far more extreme than any conservatism in this country. Yet, liberals defend this Muslim ideology as they excoriate anyone who might dare to change or enlighten this culture. For this, they say, we are at fault and we deserve what we get.

On the other hand, liberals in this country are doing just that to our own culture, as they wage a counter-culture war against average Americans. They not only expct us to sit still as they tear down the very foundations of this country, they become violent when we refuse to accept it. The hypocrisy is amazing. They are telling us that we are guilty of the very sins that they have been perpetrating in this country...against its citizens, for decades. Hmm...I wonder if they would come to the defense of American conservatives (in the same way they've done Muslims) if we decided to put up a fight or strike back in defense of our culture. Why is it that Muslims are entitled to defend their corrupt culture and ideology (even with violence) while those in America who even use the Democratic process are described in the worst possible terms. No such language ever passes the lips of a liberal...as they go as far as even defending it and excusing the violence.

Will they justify my rage (at them and their attempts at reformation) some day in the future? The irony in all this, is that as liberals attack this country...and excuse the actions of radical Islam, it is liberalism and their ideals that are the greatest threat to Islam. For all the reasons and excuses they give for why America was attacked, they conveniently ignore that it is their ideology and "progressive" ideals that is the greatest threat to Muslim society. The fact that moderate conservatives in this country are looked at as the greater threat by liberals than the extreme conservativism of Islam, only indicates how dangerous liberals really are. In fact, their irrational hatred and spite for this country only helps feed the irrational hatred of our enemies...and justifies whatever attacks they may seek to inflict upon us in the future. And these people wonder why they hate us...and why I despise them?


40 posted on 06/16/2005 1:41:48 PM PDT by cwb
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