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Rdtf
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 Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 1:28 pm Post subject: Senator Durbin Likened our Servicemen to Nazis... |
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http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/
| Quote: | BY JAMES TARANTO
Wednesday, June 15, 2005 4:11 p.m. EDT
Durbin Supports the Troops
Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, took the Senate floor yesterday and likened American servicemen to Nazis (link in PDF):
When you read some of the graphic descriptions of what has occurred here [at Guantanamo Bay]--I almost hesitate to put them in the [Congressional] Record, and yet they have to be added to this debate. Let me read to you what one FBI agent saw. And I quote from his report:
On a couple of occasions, I entered interview rooms to find a detainee chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor, with no chair, food or water. Most times they urinated or defecated on themselves, and had been left there for 18-24 hours or more. On one occasion, the air conditioning had been turned down so far and the temperature was so cold in the room, that the barefooted detainee was shaking with cold. . . . On another occasion, the [air conditioner] had been turned off, making the temperature in the unventilated room well over 100 degrees. The detainee was almost unconscious on the floor, with a pile of hair next to him. He had apparently been literally pulling his hair out throughout the night. On another occasion, not only was the temperature unbearably hot, but extremely loud rap music was being played in the room, and had been since the day before, with the detainee chained hand and foot in the fetal position on the tile floor.
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. Sadly, that is not the case. This was the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners. We are fighting an enemy that murdered 3,000 innocent people on American soil 3 1/2 years ago and would murder millions more if given the chance--and according to Dick Durbin, our soldiers are the Nazis. |
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AMOS
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| Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 2:14 pm Post subject: First Name. |
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Durbin's first name is more than appropriate.
It's good for some senators that I am not one. |
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JannDallas
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| Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 2:17 pm Post subject: |
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I have already called Senator Durbin's office and let them know what a scumball (didn't use those words, but close more like vile reprehensible) his comments were. It took me a hour to get through. I would call, flood his e-mail at his Senate office, etc.... and let him know your thoughts too. I also called Reid's office and Senator Bill Nelson's office as he is my Senator now.
If you are as outraged as I am, let them know it. |
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Rdtf
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| Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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this was on Drudge- 
http://www.kwqc.com/Global/story.asp?S=3480381
| Quote: | June 16, 2005
Durbin refuses to apologize for Guantanamo Bay comments
CHICAGO Illinois Senator Dick Durbin says he won't apologize for comments comparing American interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Nazis and Soviet gulags.
News of the Democrat's comparison created a buzz around the Internet today, fueled by sound bites of yesterday's Senate floor speech on radio talk shows. By this afternoon, Illinois Republican Party Chairman Andy McKenna asked Durbin to apologize.
Durbin says the Bush administration should apologize for abandoning the Geneva Conventions.
Human-rights activist groups and some lawmakers -- mostly Democrats -- want Bush to close the prison.
But administration officials say some of the people who have been detained at Guantanamo later return to fight against the United States. |
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Navy_Navy_Navy
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| Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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I've written to both of my Senators asking that they either initiate or support a condemnation of those remarks.
| Quote: | Senator Durbin's Atrocious Comments
Dear Senator __________,
I am completely disgusted with the remarks made by SEN Durbin on the Senate floor regarding the treatment of the detainees at Guantanamo.
A detainee has no air conditioning. Another is too air conditioned. And that equates with mass genocides and torture? Oh, please, give me a break!
How this idiot can possibly compare OUR TROOPS with Nazis, Soviet gulags and Pol Pot could probably only be explained by a psychiatrist.
We have troops in harms' way who do NOT deserve this demoralizing bunch of lies! Our troops deserve better than this type of inflammatory and derogatory hyperbole from representatives of our government.
I'm writing to ask you to please initiate or support a condemnation of these statements.
Sincerely, |
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AMOS
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| Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 3:00 pm Post subject: Will they ever learn? |
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| Will these loonies ever learn the Geneva Conventions DON'T APPLY to these sand *****? |
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DADESID
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| Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 3:10 pm Post subject: Re: First Name. |
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| AMOS wrote: | | Durbin's first name is more than appropriate. |
And his middle name is "Head". |
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Rdtf
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| Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 3:20 pm Post subject: Re: First Name. |
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| DADESID wrote: | | AMOS wrote: | | Durbin's first name is more than appropriate. |
And his middle name is "Head". |
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davman
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| Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 3:34 pm Post subject: Another assoult on our troops...from within our borders! |
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Here is a link to contact this swine!
http://durbin.senate.gov/contact.cfm
I have sent my response to his insane comments, please do the same! |
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GM Strong
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| Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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Durbin is a disgrace and owes our Servicemen an apology. He owes the country a resignation.
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PhantomSgt
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| Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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Just another Far Left Liberal who never served a day in uniform and automatically (by elected position) becomes an expert on wartime interrogation techniques.
The voters of his home state should voice their objections to his behavior at the ballot box.
Piece of advice: If you are mailing, e-mailing or calling a sitting US Senator keep it clean and non-threatening. You don’t want a visit from the Secret Service for a moment of emotion intercepted by NSA or reported by the Senator's staff.
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Jerald L. Parsoneault
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| Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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I have been thinking for sometime now about how to best address the situation at Gitmo.
As a test, why not select 50 of the enemy combatants from Gitmo and transfer them to the general population in a cross-section of maximum security prisons like Pelican Bay Penitentiary in California. Let them share cells with hardened inmates who don't care about their sensitivities, special needs, or well being -- really mean inmates who hate their guts, in fact.
After three months, have the wardens call in the the transferees and ask them if they want to stay or go back to the "Natzi, Gulag, Concentration Camp, Torture Chamber, Hell Hole" at Gitmo.
Oh, by the way, be sure to have members of the press present so they can document the combatants on their hands and knees pleading and kissing the hands of the wardens for giving them the opportunity to return to their former life at Gitmo.
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Me#1You#10
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| Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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According to his blog, Hugh Hewitt will be addressing the Durbin Debacle on his radio program today. Here's a link to a streamcast from our media list...
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AMOS
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| Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:55 pm Post subject: Re: First Name. |
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[quote="DADESID"][quote="AMOS"]Durbin's first name is more than appropriate.[/quote]
And his middle name is "Head".[/quote]
AND he was in the army......The Salvation Army and his rank..............yep, you guessed it.............Major! LOL. |
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redleg2
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| Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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| This a$$hole avoided VN by getting an education like so many of his fellow 'rats. How does he get the kahunas to call our troops Nazi's? |
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