There is only one word to describe your headline: "bullshit".
Turbin needs to apologize to the Troops, to the Units guarding prisoners, and to the nation as a whole. Then he needs to resign.
Non-apology apologies (I'm sorry IF...) just don't cut it.
ap·o·lo·gi·a
n.
A formal defense or justification.
Two different things.
Sorry, Dick, but I can't agree. Hitler's Holocaust only comes in at the "number 3" position. Stalin and Mao both were "bigger and better" when it came down to killing the citizens of their respective countries.
Interesting, though, that the top three perpetrators of citizen mass murder (which Rummel calls "democide") all did their dirty deeds in the name of "socialism".
Durbin's remarks display either a gross lack of knowledge, or a deliberate partisan effort to smear America's Commander-in-Chief, or, at the very least a gross lack of understanding of how America's enemies use and misuse remarks such as his in their war on America and its liberty.
This is a war of ideas--the ideas of liberty vs. the ideas of oppression and tyranny--,and to hand the enemies of liberty a weapon for headlines in the Middle East, either deliberately or through ignorance, must not be tolerated on the floor of our Congress. He can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. It's there for all time for the enemies to use!!
No apology here, and no "misunderstanding" either!
What Durbin and all the other Democratic Partisans are doing during this critical time of war against extremist terrorists is consistent with President George Washington's Farewell admonition regarding what he identified as the danger of the "spirit of Party."
This is a small excerpt from that dire warning:
". . .the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it."
"It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions."
Historically knowledgeable "wise people" have complained about Durbin's partisan-motivated public statements, which are either uninformed or deliberately intended to damage his country's President's effort to contain and wage a dangerous war against tyranny.
And, he claims they "misunderstood" him, or now that they were merely "offended"????
If the accusatory and inflammatory remarks of Dean, Durbin, Kennedy, Biden, and other partisans are allowed to stand, unchallenged by a "wise people," then we must conclude that the decades-long failure to teach and learn the Founders' principles, and the means by which they can be subverted, has succeeded!
Apology NOT accepted, Dick!!
You did NOT apologize to the soldiers at GITMO !!
Durbin apologized in full, and I have some ocean front property in Montana to sell.
Not exactly. If I cannot find a transcript soon, I will create one myself from the audio, to prove the point.
This guy has refined the non-apology (a la Clinton) into a fine art.
He avoided entirely the responsibility of doing the enemy's propaganda for them, and the resulting damage, or even acknowledged that what he did was at best wrong, at worst horribly uninformed.
For me he just reinforced once more the certain knowlege that it was all politically motivated, and damn the consequences.
apologia
noun
A statement that justifies or defends something, such as a past action or policy: apologetic, apology, defense, justification, vindication. See attack/defend.
Now that will undo all of the political damage done world wide and probably unkill a few troops that died because of this a$$hole.
He apologized if he "offended" anyone. He didn't apologize for his statements. MSM circling the wagons....again.
Oh Durbin is sorry all right. He's one of the sorriest examples of slimy weasels in public life today. His so-called "apology" redefines insincerity at a lower level than I would have thought possible.
To compare the systematic slaughter of people to a few instances of prisoner mistreatment in Gitmo is beyond ridiculous. As a matter of fact, there is not even 1000 prisoners in Gitmo, and the majority are still alive and healthy. How can you compare Gitmo to Dachau?