SSDD.
Posted on 06/17/2005 4:30:53 AM PDT by Coop
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"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," Durbin said.
By Thursday, conservatives' anger at what they portrayed as a comparison between the U.S. and some of history's most murderous regimes was boiling.
"I think the senator's remarks are reprehensible," said White House spokesman Scott McClellan.
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said on his show, "This is the kind of thing that ought to force him to resign in disgrace."
But Durbin, who became the assistant Democratic leader--his party's second-in-command in the Senate--at the start of this year, was unrepentant.
On a range of matters, the 60-year-old from Springfield is key in helping devise his party's strategy to protect the filibuster, oppose certain judicial nominees, halt President Bush's plan to partially privatize Social Security and try to project a positive Democratic agenda...
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
[snort!] Sen. Dick Durbin has betrayed the U.S. military.
Durbin has no choice but to commit ceremonial seppuku as soon as possible. The man has no shame.
Funny how when a liberal says the wrong thing at the wrong time, it's considered a "passion".
He'll be falling back to "Taken out of context" in the next few days. Maybe he'd like to talk to John McCain about POW camps.
Durbin needs to shut his treason-hole.
Pravda would have blushed to have published such political hogwash as this spin from the Trib. No self-respecting cat would poop on this paper.
In the meantime, Americans with common sense need to remember what these idiots do and say come time for their own reelection bids.
Durbin is a traitor who is giving aid and comfort to our enemies...but no one in power has the cojones to do anything about it!
"Clearly, that's over the top. That is not what is happening at Guantanamo Bay. What is happening at Guantanamo Bay is we're trying to treat people humanely, recognizing that these are terrorists,"
"Senator Durbin's statements are deplorable. He should ask for forgiveness, forgiveness from our troops, from their families and all of us who are trying to win this War on Terror,"
"And for you to come to the floor with just that fragment of a report and then unleash the words 'the Nazis,' unleash the word 'gulag,' unleash 'Pol Pot,' I don't know how many remember that chapter, it seems to me that was a grievous error in judgment and leaves open to the press of the world to take those three extraordinary chapters in world history and try to intertwine it with what has taken place, allegedly, at Guantanamo,"
Glad to see our Virginia boys stepping up to the plate.
Want to hear something funny....DICK will be in Illinois and St Louis today to meet with a BRAC official to discuss not closing any bases here in Illinois.....
That's not the p-word I'd use.
Try PROPAGANDA, Ms. Zuckman.
"Passion" = slander, treason, idiocy.....
Agreed.
If only there were some FReepers out to greet him with huge signs reading, "NO BASES FOR TRAITORS!!!" and "WHY SHOULD THE US MILITARY SUPPORT ILLINOIS???"
dick turd-bin... Ping!
He equated US troops to NAZIS.....that isn't passion.... that is stupidity.
jzuckman@tribune.com
I suggest Ms Zuckman hear how real American patriots feel about Turbin Durbin's "passion" and her democrat talking points puff piece of propaganda.
If I knew where he was gonna be, I'd freep him.....within range, of course....
To compound his egregiousness, he refused to apologize for his callousness.
SSDD.
Why should this POS have any say in what base in IL gets to stay open?
Hipocrisy to the uttermost.
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"To link such selflessness to three of world's worst regimes is reprehensible, and I call on every member of Congress and all 900,000 veterans in the State of Illinois to make their displeasure known to Senator Durbin."
We write to object to your reference to Nazis in the context of the debate on detainees at Guantanamo Bay on the Senate floor earlier this week.
Whatever your views on the treatment of detainees and alleged excesses at the Guantanamo Bay facility, it is inappropriate and insensitive to suggest that actions by American troops in any way resemble actions taken by Nazis in their treatment of prisoners. Suggesting some kind of equivalence between their interrogation tactics demonstrates a profound lack of understanding about the horrors that Hitler and his regime actually perpetrated.
We urge you to repudiate your remarks and apologize to the American people for distorting an important issue with an inappropriate comparison to Nazi tactics. However heated the debate over issues of the day, we would urge you to refrain from using Holocaust imagery in the future.
Thanks, that little tid-bit was the best breakfast I've ever tasted!
CAN YOU SAY CLOOOOOSUUUUURE? Hehehehehehehehe....
"To link such selflessness to three of world's worst regimes is reprehensible, and I call on every member of Congress and all 900,000 veterans in the State of Illinois to make their displeasure known to Senator Durbin."
John Furgess, commander-in-chief of Veterans of Foreign Wars
I call for all veterns to censure this copperhead.
well spoken! Sen Dickie Dustbin is way out of line.
That's been their defense of Daffy Dean, too.
"Passion? Try Treasonous Slander!
Just another MSM propaganda piece.
But even some hard words are better than nothing, I suppose. Where's the saintly and heroic media darling from AZ on this? Of all people, wouldn't HE be the right man to put this whole Gitmo=Gulag lie to rest? Certainly he can't be more interested in senate cameraderie or personal gain than standing up for our troops, can he?
So he's comparing the US military to the SS? Then I guess the jihadis in the prisons are the innocent Jews. Jews are jihadis now?
I'm on hold with Sen. Frist's office right now, to find out if he is going to make a statement. Still nil heard (as far as I know) from John McCain.
This is all about getting Bush any way they can. If they have to trash the military, denigrate the victims of the Holocaust, they don't care. The Democrats have gone over to the Dark Side.
According to this staff, there are no plans at the present time to make a statement.
Dr. Frist needs to change his plans.
And pissed on the graves of every victim of the Soviet gulags, the killing fields of Cambodia, and Nazi Germany.
I wrote a letter to the ADL stating that if they didn't CONDEMN Durbin for his statement, that will just confirm that the ADL and B'Nai Brith is nothing more than a bunch of leftist democratic shills (which they are, but what the hell), and that they would NEVER get another dollar of charity out of me (which I stopped donating to years ago, due to BB's anti-gun stance).
Mark
Now of course he says it was taken out of context.
As I wrote on another thread yesterday,Durbin was making these statements looking directly into an overhead camera.He knew full well that his statements were going to make the news and was counting on the MSM to continue the drum beat that the Bush administration was committing atrocities.Nothing was taken out of context,this was political maneuvering that due to the dems continuing blindness to the beliefs of the majority of the American people backfired on them.
Conservative morning host Don Wade is discussing this now on WLS in Chicago. Here is a link to listen live:
http://www.wlsam.com/listenlive.asp#
And let's not forget just who allowed Pol Pot to start playing his games in Cambodia. If the US hadn't cut and run from Viet Nam, just how many lives might have been saved. And who was it behind that "strategy?" Interestingly enough, it's the same people saying that we need to "cut and run" in Iraq too!
It's been so successful in the part!
Mark
In their long and glorious history, it has never turned out to anyones advantage to make an enemy of the United States Marines.
And here would be my response to the ADL...
Dear JOOOOS,
So, are you happy having your victimhood used as a bludgeon over and over again by the democrats? How does it feel knowing that your parents, aunts and uncles murders are being used by political hacks for political gain, which is, by the way, putting our brave service men and women at ever greater risk.
Al Jezeera is featuring Dick Durbin as their favorite US senator, joining such luminaries as McDermott and Kennedy.
Think about this the next time you consider yourself a democrat.
Mark
You bet.
Talk about a Hall of Shame.
I was wondering what folks in Illinois are thinking.
Yesterday I could find jack about this in the IL MSM.
Wait a minute. Durbin is the guy that made the comment!
It is not required of anyone to comment on Drubins BS. I
could say a lot about it but everyone else is saying what
I would say and a lot better so I haven't commented.
Others may have similar reasons for not commenting.
It is clear from your comments that you don't like McCain,
ok go get him on what he does and says but your comment
about him in this case is close to that bast.rd Durbin. You
are in my opinion out of order!
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