Posted on 06/22/2005 9:38:54 AM PDT by ambrose
WASHINGTON -- His voice choking, Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois took to the Senate floor Tuesday and explicitly offered "heartfelt apologies" for comparing America's treatment of prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center to the atrocities of the Nazis, Soviets and other murderous regimes.
The apology came after a week of drumbeat criticism against Durbin, the assistant Democratic leader, from the White House, from Republican senators, from conservative activists and, finally, from Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, a fellow Democrat.
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Earlier in the day, however, Daley came down hard on his friend.
"I think it is a disgrace," the mayor declared when asked about Durbin's comments last week. "He is a good friend of mine, but I think it is a disgrace to say that any man or woman in the military acts like that."
Daley's son, Patrick, recently enlisted in the U.S. Army and now is in training.
"I believe our men and women in the military have a lot of common sense and passion and heart," the mayor said.
`So disrespectful'
"Read the history of the Holocaust," Daley said. "Nothing can compare with the Holocaust. . . . It is so disrespectful for all the victims of the Holocaust. You are talking about 6 million people intentionally killed. . . .
"How many did [Stalin] kill?" Daley asked rhetorically. "Twenty-two million. Then you take what took place in Cambodia, and we are trying to [compare] incidents in Guantanamo Bay, where nobody has been killed, no one has been seriously injured, to that?"
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This was NO apology!! It was a CYA..."sorry if you were offended"!! Disgusting!!
With Dems. like Durbin, Republicans will be in charge for ever, thank goodness.
THe DUers are sooo disappointed that Durbin caved.
Nice try, Chicago Tribune. Maybe the idiots who didn't listen to the so called apology will believe it.
Someone like Daley would be tough to beat on the national level... pro-United States abroad, pro-socialism at home... pretty much what most voters want.
Crocodile tears.... same as Clinton after the Ron Brown funeral. He meant what he said. That is how he sees the US Military.
Chi Trib is trying to cover their boys A**. That was no apology. Only a resignation is an apology.
I agree: I'm sorry that I got caught up in this."
"...and those tears of his were crocodile tears, and his contrition was that of an asp" [Shchedrin]
By the way, is an "apology" inspired by a turn of conscience, or an ONSLAUGHT?
Turban needs to go, NOW.
Reminds me of an apology I had to give to one of my brothers after one of our many fist fights in our youth; "I'm sorry it hurt when I punched you". My mom didn't buy it, my brother didn't buy it and I didn't mean it.
Durbin didn't cave!
"Apology" my a$$! "IF I offended anyone...." If? IF? I want this al-Quaeda lovin' traitor run out of the Senate and out of America!
How's that for being offended?
Bullshit!!!!!
Apology NOT ACCEPTED Saboteur
Stop Dick Turbinladen Durbin before he aids our enemy again!
DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS!!!!Contact your REPS
That type of Democrat is called Zell Miller.
If Durbin is not expelled from the Senate for his treason, I fully believe the 'aid and comfort' clause should be remove from treason law.
I'm still thrilled, even a half-hearted apology is more than the United Nations Socialists would have EVER considered just 10 years ago. Their media elite propaganda ministers would have made sure that it was covered up.
Unfortunately for the United Nations Socialists in Congress that call themselves democrats, their propaganda machine is slowly disintegrating...
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