Was the intent of Illinois Senator Richard Durbin to make Americans look bad or Nazis look good?
Earlier this week, Senator Dick Durbin vented on the Senate floor about treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Durbin complained of air conditioners turned up too high, and others not turned on at all (I'm not sure what level the AC was at when Pakistani terrorists beheaded Daniel Pearl.). The guards even blasted rap music. You see, the prisoners at Gitmo are uncomfortable and this makes Dick Durbin angry. You wouldn't like Dick Durbin when he's angry.
After detailing all that, Durbin, perhaps channelling Ward Churchill, remarked: "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." The blogosphere is abuzz. The American Thinker, for instance, asks: "What is Durbin on?" Indeed, no one in their right mind would compare Guantanamo Bay, which houses actual bad guys and has witnessed zero prisoner deaths, to Nazi death camps, Soviet gulags, or the Cambodian prison-state under Pol Pot. But we're not talking about some Berkeley burnout here. The Democratic Whip in the Senate made these statements.
To understand why the Democrats have become mired in their position as the minority party, think of Durbin's foolish remarks in the context of Barbara Lee voting against military action in Afghanistan, Bill Clinton reacting to 9/11 by saying Americans of European backgrounds were "not blameless" because of the crusades, Cynthia McKinney alleging a Bush-9/11 conspiracy, David Bonior and Jim McDermott travelling to Baghdad prior to the war, Howard Dean's call for a fair trial for Osama bin Laden, and Jimmy Carter sharing his box at the Democratic Convention with Michael Moore. That's not a gameplan for majority status--at least not in American politics.
The Enemy within.
Where can I get my hands on some of that Nazi Rap? I've heard the rap that came out of the Gulags. And of course we've all heard the pulsating rhymes and rhythms inspired by the Pol Pot regime - nothing better to grind to IMHO. But I had no idea that there was a Nazi Rap industry. Can anyone please direct me?
It seems that in their zeal to be anti-war and anti-Bush the Democrats often overplay their cards like this. They should go ahead and be anti-Iraq War, but they shouldn't try to magnify their position by falsely and stupidly comparing us to Nazis. When Jews were being slaughtered in multitudes in Germany, was the airconditioning a concern? Did they dine on chicken a l'orange? Did they all survive? Were there only 600 of them? How Durbin gets elected I do not know. The Repubs must be awful in Illinois. I hope someone vents about Durbin on the Senate floor. And he does this all in the name of the Democratic Party. Hillary has her work cut out for her.
This kind of stuff is beyond absurd. We go above and beyond what the morally justified treatment of filthy terrorists calls for: federally-funded Korans, arrows pointing to Mecca, religiously-sensitive foods, etc. Apparently, we even tell our soldiers to be wary of walking during prayer time, as not to disturb the Islamofascists.
Furthermore, when I heard that women were giving these guys stripteases and lapdances (as a form of "torture"), I couldn't believe it. Terrorists get more laydehs than I do, for Allah's sake.
This seems an obvious question to me but why are Dems and the MSM, as well as human rights groups flipping out about and going on about Gitmo which seems to be run very professionally and moderately; while basically ignoring the real scandal of the American run prisons in Afghanistan where insidious torture has been routine and kneecapping a defenseless cab driver to death has already occurred, as well as a number of other murders?
I suppose it is just another faux disagreement to make it seem like there exists an opposition party.
Durbin stands for nothing. He's the king of obstructionists.
You know, I’ve got to wonder: if you’re some starving and thirsty terrorist sitting around in desert heat in the same dirty clothes you’ve been wearing for the last week in a place where there is no running water and/or toilet facilities, why wouldn’t you want to get caught and go to Guantanamo?
By all accounts, the detainees live comparatively well there. Good sized climate controlled cells, clean bed, clean clothes daily, bathroom facilities, prayer rugs and daily exercise, three squares a day with a dinner menu that includes: “orange-glazed chicken, fresh fruit crepe, steamed peas and mushrooms, and rice pilaf”. And the guards can’t yell at, poke or serve detainees cold meals.
This is how ridiculous this is....
"Now let us turn to the ranking Democrat, the big cheese on the committee, Patrick Leahy of Vermont. Leahy thinks Gitmo needs to be closed down and argues as follows:
"America was once very rightly viewed as a leader in human rights and the rule of law, but Guantanamo has drained our leadership, our credibility, and the world's good will for America at alarming rates."
So, until Guantanamo, America was "viewed as a leader in human rights"? Not in 2004, when Abu Ghraib was the atrocity du jour. Not in 2003, when every humanitarian organization on the planet was predicting the deaths of millions of Iraqis from cholera, dysentery and other diseases caused by America's "war for oil." Not in 2002, when the "human rights" lobby filled the streets of Vancouver and London and Rome and Sydney to protest the Bushitler's plans to end the benign reign of good King Saddam. Not the weekend before 9/11 when the human rights grandees of the U.N. "anti-racism" conference met in South Africa to demand America pay reparations for the Rwandan genocide and to cheer Robert Mugabe to the rafters for calling on Britain and America to "apologize unreservedly for their crimes against humanity." If you close Gitmo tomorrow, the world's anti-Americans will look around and within 48 hours alight on something else for Gulag of the Week."
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