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Checkout post 109 in the thread above. Hugh Hewitt transcript interviewing a young officer 2 months back from Gitmo: In fact, my men and I spent nine hours on a runway waiting to try and get a detainee to go back home who had refused to do so because he wanted to stay at Guantanamo because he was being treated so well.

The memory of New York's Twin Towers crashing to the ground on September 11, 2001, seems far removed from the minds of a sizable portion of the American public. Because we live in a country that permits the lives of ordinary citizens to quickly resume their normal activities and concerns, September 11 -- and the fight against terrorism as a whole -- has taken on the aspect of a new Broadway play: culturally popular and required-viewing in its debut, then suffering from lack of interest and novelty after the newness of it wears away.

NEW YORK — Last year, more than 328 million people worldwide visited amusement parks but the death this week of one 4-year-old boy at Walt Disney World has led some to question whether more needs to be done to improve theme park safety. Daudi Bamuwamye (search) died on a popular ride at Walt Disney World's Epcot Center. Since the "Mission: Space" attraction opened in 2003, seven people have been taken to the hospital for chest pains, fainting or nausea. The intense attraction simulates a rocket and spins riders around in a centrifuge. "We believe the ride is safe in its...

It's important that we don't let Dick Durbin off the hook too quickly. And, it's important that we not let his shills and enablers turn the tables by saying Republicans are merely attacking him to switch the subject from our alleged abuse of terrorist POWs. That's basically what Fox News' Juan Williams did when he grudgingly admitted that Durbin's likening of Gitmo to the genocidal Soviet, Cambodian and Nazi regimes was over the top. The decent, though persistently misguided Williams said that Durbin's crude comparison should not detract from his very important point: that America is abusing prisoners in Guantanamo....

..... One knowledgeable official familiar with the memo cited by Durbin as well as other memos said the FBI agent made no such allegation and that the memo described only someone chained to the floor. Anything beyond that is simply an interpretation, the official said. Several Democrats declined to comment on Durbin's remarks. Those who did chose their words carefully, saying questions remain about interrogations. "I don't think, however, that I would go quite as far as he would because, for example, I don't think we need to close down Guantanamo Bay," said Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-Va. Senate Minority Leader...

None dare call it treason June 19th, 2005 Weir Thinking about it In case anyone still wondered if the Democrats were on a collision course with political obscurity, Illinois Senator Dick Durbin’s recent comments on the floor of that once venerable institution should have removed all doubt. Comparing American interrogators at Guantanamo Bay to the Nazis under Hitler, and other mass murdering regimes of Stalin and Pol Pot, the Senator said he was reading from an FBI agent‘s report describing treatment of the detainees at the Naval base as, “chained to the floor without food or water in extreme temperatures.”...

You know things aren’t going well for the Democrats when their main fighting issue is what the room temperature is at Guantanamo Bay’s Motel 6. Among the brilliant ideas of the “We Support the Troops” party is to close down the island-resort prison center affectionately referred to as Gitmo. The people most upset about the “torture” are mainly a bunch of leftwing, bed-wetting socialists who have never supported the war in any form or at any stage, but who we are now supposed to take as objective, credible persons. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Idiot) breathlessly announced the extent of the torture...

Senator Durbin's comparison of US troops to Pol Pot's regime, Nazis and Stalin's Gulag is: Commendable Accurate Acceptable Inexcusable Slanderous Outrageous Treasonous Other/Pass

Let’s talk about the stupidity of Senators. Senator Dick Durbin (D., Ill.) is our Poster Child. First, there is no known lower limit on the stupidity of an individual Senator. For gross public dumb, it’s hard to beat a one-term Iowa Senator who went to a local massage parlor to have his ashes hauled. He was dumb enough to pay with a credit card. And dumb to have a staffer who was living in sin with an Iowa reporter. As a result, the credit card slip was published in a paper, and the gentleman’s career ended at six years. This...

I am speaking again tonight to Democrats as much as Republicans, asking them to contemplate the recent statements and actions of their Congressional surrogates in both houses - Senator Richard Durbin (D. Illinois) and Representative Charles Rangel (D. New York) - and ask yourselves if they represent you, your values, and your viewpoints. Because, I submit that what is being Left is increasingly at odds with the sensibilities of the majority of both the Democrat Party and the people of America. On Tuesday, Senator Durbin chimed in with his latest denigration of the U.S. Military's actions in the War on...

June 17th, 2005 WASHINGTON (APUPI) Amidst growing outrage at his comparisons of US troops to Pol Pot's regime, Nazis and Stalin's Gulag, Illinois Senator Richard Durbin backed off from his earlier comments today, reading from a prepared statement outside his office that he hadn't meant to directly compare the situations: "I realize that my comments unjustly slandered many people in southeast Asia and other places who were simply trying to achieve a better society, and did not intend to compare what they did to the horrific atrocities that were occuring, and continue to occur, in Guantanamo. I wish to deeply...

Spurred on by the fact that the US mainstream media allows and even encourages the Democrats to be as outrageous as possible (after all---it’s the MSM’s Party too!), Senator Dick Durbin has decided to challenge Howard Dean and Ted “the swimmer” Kennedy for buffoon of the year; if not the decade. Not satisfied with only comparing conservatives to the evil ones, Durbin decided to compare member of our US Military to Nazis, Cambodia’s genocidal leader Pol Pot and, of course, the Soviet gulags . In fact, he said as part of his inordinately long and loathsome diatribe: “On one occasion,...

TIME 100: AUGUST 23-30, 1999 VOL. 154 NO. 7/8 Pol Pot Born May 19, 1925 in Prek Sbauv 1949 Studies left-wing politics in France 1953 Returns to Cambodia and joins Communist Party, which he leads a decade later 1975 Khmer Rouge is victor of civil war and occupies Phnom Penh; reign of terror kills 1.5 million in next four years 1979 Goes into hiding after Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia 1998 Dies April 15 in Cambodian jungle "We were like babies learning to walk," he said of his "mistakes" Cambodia's ruthless dictator cheated justice, dying before he could answer for the...

MIDI - CAMP GRENADA Hello a-ho, Richard Durbin...did I see you in your turbin Al-Jazeera loves you dearly...they know what side you are on, you've shown it clearly Your performance was disgusting...our own soldiers, you're not trusting We're the Nazis, you are saying...on a prayer rug have you secretly been praying What a scumbag, what a traitor...to al-Qaeda you have catered All their efforts you embolden...U.S. haters look at you as if you're golden We run gulags like the commies...we would torture kids and mommies Even Pol Pot can't outdo us...is there anything you wouldn't say to screw us...

In December 1996, Robert Fisk of the London newspaper The Independent traveled to the mountains north of Khartoum where he met Osama bin Laden. The opening sentences of the article he wrote about the meeting went as follows: Osama Bin Laden sat in his gold fringed robe, guarded by loyal Arab mujahedin… . With his high cheekbones, narrow eyes and long brown robe, Mr Bin Laden looks every inch the mountain warrior of mujahedin legend. Chadored children danced in front of him, preachers acknowledged his wisdom. In a second article he wrote about the same meeting, Fisk upgraded bin Laden’s...

1.8 million were slaughtered in Pol Pot's Year Zero atrocities of the 1970s. His victims still wait for justice. Imagine a tsunami 10 times as destructive as the one we witnessed in south-east Asia. Imagine that nearly 2 million people have been wiped off the face of the earth. Surely the world would be rushing to help, pouring in millions of dollars and bundles of compassion in the wake of such an unspeakable catastrophe? Just such a tragedy did happen more than a quarter of a century ago. Yet the people most affected by it received little in international help...

MALIPO JOURNAL MALIPO, China - After a walk up a steep stone staircase, first-time visitors are astonished when the veterans' cemetery just outside this town finally pops into view: as far as the eye can see, the curving arcade of hillside is lined with row after row of crypts, each with its concrete headstone emblazoned with a large red star, a name and an inscription. Long Chaogang and Bai Tianrong, though, had both been here before. The two men, veterans of China's war with Vietnam, which began with intense combat in mid-February of 1979, return from time to time looking...

American Friends? HardlyBy Gordon LambFrontPageMagazine.com | June 5, 2003 When the first Quakers arrived in America in the late 17th century, they were thought of as heretics, sometimes witches and routinely bizarre. Theirs was a religion based on the ideas the individual is supreme, that the relationship between God and man is a very private affair not to be regulated by government or society, that temperance ("all things in moderation") is a noble way to live one's life. Above all, it prized peace and stated that violence should be avoided if at all possible.The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has mastered...

John Rambo: Sir, do we get to win this time? That was a line uttered by Sylvester Stallone in Rambo: First Blood Part II. Of course in this movie he's referring to Vietnam and our unfortunate "stalemate" in that war. More to the point, the dialogue illustrates that what the soldiers in the Vietnam War were feeling. Most scholars of that conflict would validate the soldiers by saying that the US Armed Forces were severely hamstrung against the North Vietnamese. From 1957 thru 1975 American soldiers racked up enemy bodies by the 100's but did not end the Communist aggression...

I am watching Hannity give this sKerry apologist say that stopping the war is something to be proud of. Yet, nothing is mentioned about the true results of our defeat. Correct me if I am wrong but didn't millions die in Nam and Cambodia because of our premature withdrawal?