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Me#1You#10
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 Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 5:27 am Post subject: ScottSwett:"Durbin:Costly Slander,Cheap Redemption" |
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Our Webmaster and VVLF Executive Director, Scott Swett, connects the Kerry/Durbin dots...
| Quote: | Durbin: Costly Slander, Cheap Redemption
By Scott Swett
Eight days after comparing the treatment of terrorist prisoners by American troops at Guantanamo Bay to Nazi death camps and Soviet gulags, Senator Richard Durbin offered a weepy semi-apology, expressing regret before his fellow Senators if his remarks "in any way cast a negative light on our fine men and women in the military." Senator Durbin loves and supports America's troops, you see. "They are the best," he gushed. "I never, ever intended any disrespect for them." No one asked whether his respect for the troops extends to their intelligence. Senators from both parties thanked their honorable colleague, and made haste to declare the controversy at an end.
That evening, hosting a Democratic Party fundraiser, Senator Durbin was introduced as a man who "has a backbone and tells it like it is." It would be difficult to come up with a less accurate characterization. Of course, if they'd called him "a man who tells grotesque lies to slander our troops, then cries and grovels when things get hot," he might not have gotten as much applause. It's instructive to note that after a week of refusing to recant while blaming "right wingers" for the controversy, the esteemed Illinois Senator folded his hand just hours after powerful Chicago mayor Richard Daley publicly called his charges "a disgrace." Even so, Durbin managed in his "apology" to pander to his party's radical base -- people who think President Bush is Adolf Hitler and openly cheer for America's efforts in Iraq to fail -- by skirting any direct admission that his claims were false. As a poster noted at **, it was "a very nuanced and targeted statement, essentially distancing himself from the imagery, but not the facts."
Ah, yes, the facts. Some 15 to 30 million Soviets died in the gulag; 6 million Jews died in the Nazi death camps; 2 million Cambodians were murdered by Pol Pot's savage regime. Not a single prisoner in Gitmo has died at the hands of the brutal Americans.
The Islamic media network Al Jazeera took a considerably less nuanced view of the situation, broadcasting Durbin's Nazi fantasies around the clock as confirmation from a high-ranking American of what Islamic radicals -- and American leftists -- have always believed; that America is fundamentally a force for evil in the world. There can be little doubt that Senator Durbin has made it significantly easier for Al Qaeda to recruit new terrorists to kill more of the American troops he professes to respect and admire.
Now, with the controversy officially at an end, Mr. Durbin returns to the warm, collegial bosom of the Senate, where he retains his influential position as the second-ranked Democrat -- the Minority Whip -- and is unlikely to suffer any long-term political harm from having helped America's enemies by lying about our troops in a time of war.
Even that could be considered progress of a sort. Thirty-four years ago, John Kerry launched the political career that brought him within 100,000 Ohio votes of the White House by comparing the U.S. military to "the armies of Genghis Khan." Senator Durbin may not receive a comparable benefit from his own slanderous remarks. Last year's presidential campaign provided many people with an opportunity to take a long look back at the Vietnam era: to recall just how badly America's returning troops were treated in those days, and why.
Today we find a new generation of Americans in harm's way, fighting far from home once again in defense of freedom. But our troops also need defending -- particularly from the likes of Senator Richard Durbin, who seeks to poison their reputations even as he pretends to praise their service.
Scott Swett is executive director of the Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation
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LewWaters
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| Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 5:37 am Post subject: |
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Excellent article. Scott thought that one out well and "told it like it is."
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| Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 12:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | There can be little doubt that Senator Durbin has made it significantly easier for Al Qaeda to recruit new terrorists to kill more of the American troops he professes to respect and admire. |
This is the real tragedy only God knows how many jihad’s where stirred into action by the words of Durbin. How many names are on the black wall because of an enemy that was stirred into action by the words of Kerry?
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Leeman
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This is a great article to read, even though it hurt to know that Al-Jazeera broadcast his remarks night & day and it was true, the bottom line is that a high ranking American did tell the world what an evil Country we are.
For me personnally it fuels my fire to try and rid the Senate & the Congress of as many liberal, blame America first Crowd.
The only thing missing on the video clip was his turban. Thats why I will always refer to him as "Turban Durbin"
and "Turbin Durbin" has got to go.!!!!!! |
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| Quote: | | The Islamic media network Al Jazeera took a considerably less nuanced view of the situation, broadcasting Durbin's Nazi fantasies around the clock as confirmation from a high-ranking American of what Islamic radicals -- and American leftists -- have always believed; that America is fundamentally a force for evil in the world. There can be little doubt that Senator Durbin has made it significantly easier for Al Qaeda to recruit new terrorists to kill more of the American troops he professes to respect and admire. |
Excellent article. There are laws for treason in our country. Durbin knowingly knew he was aiding and abbeding the enemy with his remarks.
Freedom of speech is a priveledge, not a right to say whatever we choose at the expense of our Nation and Troops. |
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Elton W. Hight
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| Quote: | | This is the real tragedy only God knows how many jihad’s where stirred into action by the words of Durbin. How many names are on the black wall because of an enemy that was stirred into action by the words of Kerry? |
So, were the terrorists not stirred into action when Mr. Bush told them to bring it on? |
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BuffaloJack
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| Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Elton W. Hight wrote: | | Quote: | | This is the real tragedy only God knows how many jihad’s where stirred into action by the words of Durbin. How many names are on the black wall because of an enemy that was stirred into action by the words of Kerry? |
So, were the terrorists not stirred into action when Mr. Bush told them to bring it on? |
You, Mr. Elton W. Hight, smell like a liberal, American hating TROLL !!!
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| Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Elton W. Hight wrote: | | So, were the terrorists not stirred into action when Mr. Bush told them to bring it on? |
Not all of us agree with the President. Not all of us are big fans. (I am, but there are many here who are not)
Dissenting views are fine - but from a new person, an "anti-Bush" stance can come across as a pro-Kerry stance.
And on that, we are united, here. Whether we agree on anything else or not, we do not support Kerry in any way.
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| Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Elton W. Hight wrote: | | Quote: | | This is the real tragedy only God knows how many jihad’s where stirred into action by the words of Durbin. How many names are on the black wall because of an enemy that was stirred into action by the words of Kerry? |
So, were the terrorists not stirred into action when Mr. Bush told them to bring it on? |
Excuse me, the President said this after 9/11. The jihadist's need no stirring, they brought it to us, and we slammed them right back where it hurt. They are nothing but worthless cowards.
| Navy_Navy_Navy wrote: | | Dissenting views are fine - but from a new person, an "anti-Bush" stance can come across as a pro-Kerry stance. |
I second that ........ |
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BuffaloJack
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Well said, Doll!
We DIDN'T attack them first, they killed 3000 Americans on American soil.
This is why we are at war.
Any time our enemies attack Americans on American soil, just when isn't it grounds for going to war?
I only regret that Bush didn't use nukes in Tora Bora and get Osama once and for all.
It is only a few weeks from the 60th anniversary of the first wartime use of an atomic bomb. We haven't used any since 1945. The use of atomic weapons is no longer a threat. Nobody believes we will ever use them, so it isn't a deterrent any more. Our enemies firmly believe that we will never use a nuke, so they have no reason to fear them (or us).
If the U.S. did use a nuke it would accomplish several things.
1) The threat of atomic retaliation by the US would be real and believed.
2) World opinion would condemn us. So what? They'll get over it in a year and nobody would mess with us for some time to come. The world has a short attention span; take advantage of it.
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