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Mark Steyn: Durbin slanders his own country
Chicago Sun Times ^ | June 19, 2005 | MARK STEYN

Posted on 06/19/2005 2:37:10 AM PDT by mal

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To: mal

It is so obvious what is going on here. Durbin and his ilk are trying to do to our military, and our country, what was done to us during the Vietnam war.

They are slandering our troops, just as they did in Vietnam.

Remember our baby killing murderous troops (reminiscent of Ghengis Khan) slashing and burning those peaceful North Vietnamese in the quaint little villages?

Remember our war criminal presidents, Johnson and Nixon, oh, yes, those war mongerers, hell bent on an imperialistic American foreign policy? It must have been for rice in those days, not oil.

Remember the daily drum beat of American losses and the daily death toll from Uncle Walter Cronkite? The quagmire lasted forever, until Uncle Walter declared that Vietnam was unwinnable, and we needed to get the hell out of there, and bring our baby killing troops home (to be shamed and spat upon.)

Remember newspaper editorial after editorial demanding an end to the war, and fat head senators and congresscritters, cutting off the funding?

Remember the scenes at the embassy in Saigon, desperate people trying to get aboard our helicopters to freedom?

Remember the millions who were killed in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos when we left?

This is what the democRATS want - AGAIN!! They will do anything and say anything to tear our country apart, again, and they don't give a damn. Political power is everything to them.

Don't let this happen. We owe our precious troops, past, present and future, so much more. We owe our children some semblence of this country that was left to us by our brave parents.

God have mercy on our troops,and our country,






21 posted on 06/19/2005 6:09:26 AM PDT by baseballmom
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To: TalBlack

America has not changed it's been infected by the 60's scum that now hold office(democrats).


22 posted on 06/19/2005 6:12:16 AM PDT by Vaduz (and just think how clean the cities would become again.)
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To: baseballmom
Brilliant analysis! Will he be censored by his fellow Senators? Even if he is, that doesn't seem enough.
23 posted on 06/19/2005 6:13:44 AM PDT by RightWingMama
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To: Pokey78
One measure of a civilized society is that words mean something: "Soviet" and "Nazi" and "Pol Pot" cannot equate to Guantanamo unless you've become utterly unmoored from reality. Spot the odd one out: 1) mass starvation; 2) gas chambers; 3) mountains of skulls; 4) lousy infidel pop music turned up to full volume. One of these is not the same as the others, and Durbin doesn't have the excuse that he's some airhead celeb or an Ivy League professor. He's the second-ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Don't they have an insanity clause?

"Insanity clause"? Im sure the dems never thought to include one, heck...everyone knows there aint no "sanity clause"

24 posted on 06/19/2005 6:15:20 AM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: mal
Birdbrain Durbin's inept comparison epitomizes the extent to which the Left's kooks have become the mainstream of the Democratic Party. Once upon a time, the Nazi-USA comparison would have been confined to the fever swamps inhabited by fringe crackpots. Today it finds its expression in the outrageous slander of his own country from a U.S Senator who happens to be the No. 2 man in his Senate party's leadership.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
25 posted on 06/19/2005 6:15:53 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: mal
...in what follows I am not questioning Dick Durbin's patriotism, at least not for the first couple of paragraphs. Instead, I'll begin by questioning his sanity

LOL

This whole essay is excellent. Something needs to happen to Durbin for this, politically or socially. He has to lose his position or his office, or both. Illinois needs to rally against him. The Senate needs to censure him.

But I do have two contrary thoughts, both very serious:

1. I do not see how Durbin can rationally be punished, when Ted Kennedy got away with his appalling and outrageous remarks earlier. And

2. Being a Democrat means never experiencing consequences for your own actions.

So I greatly fear nothing will happen.

Dan
Biblical Christianity BLOG

26 posted on 06/19/2005 6:18:16 AM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: Pokey78

I just posted this on a board ruled by left wing liberals..I loved it..and wanted to interrupt their regular programming..

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27 posted on 06/19/2005 6:19:37 AM PDT by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: wingman1

Amen! from Disgusted in Illinois!


28 posted on 06/19/2005 6:22:02 AM PDT by meema
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To: meema

Don't feel bad.......I'm from Michigan, levin or stabenow would probably say the same thing.


29 posted on 06/19/2005 6:25:52 AM PDT by Tripleplay
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To: Malesherbes

IMHO the people of Chicago sent this idiot to the senate and not the rest of the state.


30 posted on 06/19/2005 6:30:10 AM PDT by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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To: ReadyNow
That is a fine question. Now extend it to the entire left.
31 posted on 06/19/2005 6:30:14 AM PDT by JasonC
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To: RightWingMama
Will he be censored by his fellow Senators?

So far, he hasn't even had his hand slapped by the one sitting Senator who was actually in a totalitarian prison system. The Millionaires' Club takes care of its own- even unto treason.

32 posted on 06/19/2005 6:32:21 AM PDT by niteowl77 (One more straw will do it...)
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To: mal
"nobody has a right to question my patriotism!" Given that nobody was questioning their patriotism...

Wrong. I was questioning the Democrats' patriotism, still am.

If you can't question a Democrat's patriotism, what can you question?

33 posted on 06/19/2005 6:33:05 AM PDT by Jim_Curtis
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To: Malesherbes

It was Pat Dewine, and no one deserved to be buried more than goofy, whiney Pat Dewine. Inconsistent, hypocritical even for a politician...what a goofball, worse than his old man.


34 posted on 06/19/2005 6:34:05 AM PDT by TheGeezer
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To: mal
"Not only was the temperature unbearably hot, but extremely loud rap music was being played in the room"

Sounds like an apartment that I lived in once upon a time.

35 posted on 06/19/2005 6:35:55 AM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (If their Chief of police is okay with it, I am guessing that we should probably be okay with it.)
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To: Peach

Mark Steyn is one of the greatest wordsmiths of our time.


36 posted on 06/19/2005 6:36:04 AM PDT by savedbygrace ("No Monday morning quarterback has ever led a team to victory" GW Bush)
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To: mal; Pokey78; baseballmom

Victor Davis Hanson has a piece, posted on FR linked to Jewish World Review
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1423948/posts
and also linked on Real Clear Politics to the Chicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0506170274jun17,0,4330914.story?coll=chi-newsopinioncommentary-hed

ALLIES WHO TURN WARM, THEN COOL

He puts in perspective America's position in the world so clearly.

I recommend reading it as a companion piece to today's Mark Steyn - to get the memory of Durbin's words in true perspective.


37 posted on 06/19/2005 6:36:52 AM PDT by maica (Do not believe the garbage the media is feeding you back home. ---Allegra)
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To: mal

To the 99 enablers in The United States Senate, you have the right to remain silent.


38 posted on 06/19/2005 6:47:13 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: mal
Shame on him, and shame on those fellow senators and Democrats who by their refusal to condemn him endorse his slander.

Keep the heat on Dickie Durbin! Censure or resignation!

39 posted on 06/19/2005 6:48:03 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: mal

You know, all those solders know exactly what is going on over here. They are well aware what is being said and by whom.
I wonder if the Democrats are delusional enough to think information isn't traveling to their ears and eyes in far-away lands?
Or do they not mind pissing off people who volunteer to kill evil-doers?
Just random thinking....


40 posted on 06/19/2005 6:48:29 AM PDT by mabelkitty (Lurk forever, but once you post, your newbness shines like a new pair of shoes.)
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