IHL
06-21-2005, 10:10 PM
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I've said it before and I'm sure I'll have to say it again someday, but try as I might I just can't figure out those liberals. We all know the wheels have been falling off the liberal cart for a long time. Even they must be able to get a clue after nearly a decade of losing elections. And just as I think it might be time for concern because the liberal leadership might finally be getting a clue, they allay my fears with people the likes of Howie Dean and Dick Durbin.
For those that don't know or may not have heard, Dick Durbin, the number two leading Democrat, shared his opinion of the U.S. and specifically the United States military last week by comparing them to Nazis, the KGB, the Russia gulags, and Pol Pot. Quoted from and FBI agents report describing detainees at Guantanamo, Durbin said the following:
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.
Not much gray area there. Durbin compared Americans to Nazis, Soviet gulags and Pol Pot. To appreciate the words of Durbin, let's take a brief history lesson.
Pol Pot (http://www.time.com/time/daily/polpot/1.html) was a tyrant whose regime claimed more than 1 million lives (some estimates are over 2 million lives) in the mid 1970s in Cambodia. He did this via execution, starvation and disease.
It is estimated that over 50 million people died in the Soviet gulags (http://www.videofact.com/english/gulags.htm) in the 20 years following the 1930s. Gulags are prison camps for political prisoners - concentration camps or to put it bluntly, death camps.
And most people are familiar with Nazi Germany (http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/nazi_police_state.htm) and the atrocities toward the Jews and others.
So this is the way that another leading Democrat views our soldiers and our military. Why does Durbin compare our American forces with Pol Pot, the gulags and Nazi death camps? Well let's use Durbin's own words...
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. Oh my God! Rap music! These prisoners had to endure rap music! Oh the humanity! Why, this is indeed an outrage. Call the ACLU, call Rosie O'Donnell, call Sean Penn but for God's sake please call someone.
Fortunately, the Democrat leadership engages their mouths and speaks their mind before the damage control police can stop them. They seem to think in order to "correct" their position they can simply issue an apology (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050621/ap_on_go_co/guantanamo_durbin_3). So Durbin goes out and makes a "heartfelt apology". Well does this sound like an apology? "Some may believe that my remarks crossed the line," the Illinois Democrat said. "To them I extend my heartfelt apologies." Some may think? Some? Obviously not him. He didn't say he believes his remarks crossed the line. He doesn't think comparing our soldiers to tyrants crosses the line. No, this apology only went out to "some" people.
Add Durbin to list list of liberals morons who doesn't have a clue. Durbin had the nerve to say that he thinks the American soldiers are "the best", and that he "never, never, intended any disrespect for them". Pardon my French, but bullshit. Durbin spoke from the heart when he made those comparisons. So much so that Durbin initially refused to apologize stating, "This administration should apologize to the American people for abandoning the Geneva Conventions and authorizing torture techniques that put our troops at risk and make Americans less secure," One problem Dicky, terrorists don't fall under the rules of the Geneva convention. We abandoned nothing. You don't throw out terms and comparisons like that without meaning it and you enforce that by refusing to apologize after thinking about it and being called on it. When the apology only comes after being ostensively forced from other, it is hollow at best and I for one don't buy it.
I've said it before and I'm sure I'll have to say it again someday, but try as I might I just can't figure out those liberals. We all know the wheels have been falling off the liberal cart for a long time. Even they must be able to get a clue after nearly a decade of losing elections. And just as I think it might be time for concern because the liberal leadership might finally be getting a clue, they allay my fears with people the likes of Howie Dean and Dick Durbin.
For those that don't know or may not have heard, Dick Durbin, the number two leading Democrat, shared his opinion of the U.S. and specifically the United States military last week by comparing them to Nazis, the KGB, the Russia gulags, and Pol Pot. Quoted from and FBI agents report describing detainees at Guantanamo, Durbin said the following:
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.
Not much gray area there. Durbin compared Americans to Nazis, Soviet gulags and Pol Pot. To appreciate the words of Durbin, let's take a brief history lesson.
Pol Pot (http://www.time.com/time/daily/polpot/1.html) was a tyrant whose regime claimed more than 1 million lives (some estimates are over 2 million lives) in the mid 1970s in Cambodia. He did this via execution, starvation and disease.
It is estimated that over 50 million people died in the Soviet gulags (http://www.videofact.com/english/gulags.htm) in the 20 years following the 1930s. Gulags are prison camps for political prisoners - concentration camps or to put it bluntly, death camps.
And most people are familiar with Nazi Germany (http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/nazi_police_state.htm) and the atrocities toward the Jews and others.
So this is the way that another leading Democrat views our soldiers and our military. Why does Durbin compare our American forces with Pol Pot, the gulags and Nazi death camps? Well let's use Durbin's own words...
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. Oh my God! Rap music! These prisoners had to endure rap music! Oh the humanity! Why, this is indeed an outrage. Call the ACLU, call Rosie O'Donnell, call Sean Penn but for God's sake please call someone.
Fortunately, the Democrat leadership engages their mouths and speaks their mind before the damage control police can stop them. They seem to think in order to "correct" their position they can simply issue an apology (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050621/ap_on_go_co/guantanamo_durbin_3). So Durbin goes out and makes a "heartfelt apology". Well does this sound like an apology? "Some may believe that my remarks crossed the line," the Illinois Democrat said. "To them I extend my heartfelt apologies." Some may think? Some? Obviously not him. He didn't say he believes his remarks crossed the line. He doesn't think comparing our soldiers to tyrants crosses the line. No, this apology only went out to "some" people.
Add Durbin to list list of liberals morons who doesn't have a clue. Durbin had the nerve to say that he thinks the American soldiers are "the best", and that he "never, never, intended any disrespect for them". Pardon my French, but bullshit. Durbin spoke from the heart when he made those comparisons. So much so that Durbin initially refused to apologize stating, "This administration should apologize to the American people for abandoning the Geneva Conventions and authorizing torture techniques that put our troops at risk and make Americans less secure," One problem Dicky, terrorists don't fall under the rules of the Geneva convention. We abandoned nothing. You don't throw out terms and comparisons like that without meaning it and you enforce that by refusing to apologize after thinking about it and being called on it. When the apology only comes after being ostensively forced from other, it is hollow at best and I for one don't buy it.