Memo To Durbin: Are You Nuts?
I first heard this bright an early this morning on Laura Ingraham’s show. I didn’t truly catch it in it’s entirety until I heard Hugh Hewitt’s show. Sen. Richard Durbin, D-IL, decided to step up and take some heat off of Howard Dean and Chuck Schumer with his own asinine statement.
"'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."
B-O-O H-O-O that it was too cold for them. He was ventilated to over 100 degrees? Good. If he thinks that’s bad, send his butt out here to Arizona during the summer where it can go to excesses of 115+. But these people were caught in countries used to extreme heat, and extreme cold, so who cares how "comfortable" they are. I’m glad that they’re a bit "uncomfortable". I do think rap music goes a bit far; half the time you can’t understand the lyrics. Some Bon Jovi would be better. That’ll drive any sane person nuts if that’s all they heard for 24 hours straight. Personally, I’d be ripping my ears off.
Oh, I’m sorry we had to chain one of them up. I wonder what he really did to deserve that. Durbin doesn’t touch on that. But he continues to defame our military, and accuse the current administration of committing war crimes of some sort; the sort I have never yet found. I know he didn’t specifically state that, by the equation he makes is clear as a bell.
The Nazis? The Soviets? (Nice use of "gulag" though; I gues Durbin’s a contributor to Amnesty International.) Pol Pot? And others? Would Sen. Durbin care to "describe" those "others" in the same explicit detail. I’ll you he can’t say "Saddam Hussein" or "Mao Tse-tung". And I never did here "Stalin" in that diatribe. To invoke the latter two would be a breach of liberal ideology; they’ll never admit that. If they do, the world might stop spinning. They’ve defended both far too long.
Hussein’s a different topic altogether. For so long they have railed about the war in Iraq, and refused to truly address the atrocities committed by Saddam Hussein. To address that about a man—that for the most part they have defended—would be devastating, and it would reveal them to be liars to so many of their extreme Left followers; the people they truly count on as their base. This isn’t an indictment of the entire party, but far too many of it’s leaders speak out like this.
Ted Kennedy, and others accused the president of lying.
John Kerry repeatedly questioned the president on his handling of this war, and accused him of misleading the nation into a "new" war. (Um, Sen. Kerry, it’s called a "new phase" of a war; a soldier would be able to differentiate.)
Hillary Clinton demanded to know what the president knew about 11 September, and when he knew it; basically accusing him of advanced knowledge, and failing to do anything about it.
Name them: Byrd, Boxer, Dayton, Kennedy, Kerry, Clinton, Schumer, Bayh, Biden, Dodd, and Leahy; they’ve all been equally outspoken in comparison to Dean, yet the remarks they make don’t make it to the nightly news. And they won’t. These people are given a pass. I don’t give them a pass, and that includes Sen. Durbin.
This man needs a reminder of history regarding those regimes that he cited. Those people, and the three I included killed over 75 million people in the 20th Century; and they did it ruthlessly. The deaths we inflict in war are regrettable; civilians are NEVER the target. The people cited above did this willingly, and near gleefully. I see no glee from the soldiers when an unfortunate death occurs.
And I see no torture or abuse at Gitmo. Those detainees had better pray that they don’t get someone like me down there in charge of their detention and interrogation; cold and heat would be the last things they’d be worried about. I’m not advocating "torture", but there are ways to get the information we need, and it doesn’t involve coddling these people. They live better now than they did on the battlefield against our troops.
How screwed up is that?
Publius II
I first heard this bright an early this morning on Laura Ingraham’s show. I didn’t truly catch it in it’s entirety until I heard Hugh Hewitt’s show. Sen. Richard Durbin, D-IL, decided to step up and take some heat off of Howard Dean and Chuck Schumer with his own asinine statement.
"'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."
B-O-O H-O-O that it was too cold for them. He was ventilated to over 100 degrees? Good. If he thinks that’s bad, send his butt out here to Arizona during the summer where it can go to excesses of 115+. But these people were caught in countries used to extreme heat, and extreme cold, so who cares how "comfortable" they are. I’m glad that they’re a bit "uncomfortable". I do think rap music goes a bit far; half the time you can’t understand the lyrics. Some Bon Jovi would be better. That’ll drive any sane person nuts if that’s all they heard for 24 hours straight. Personally, I’d be ripping my ears off.
Oh, I’m sorry we had to chain one of them up. I wonder what he really did to deserve that. Durbin doesn’t touch on that. But he continues to defame our military, and accuse the current administration of committing war crimes of some sort; the sort I have never yet found. I know he didn’t specifically state that, by the equation he makes is clear as a bell.
The Nazis? The Soviets? (Nice use of "gulag" though; I gues Durbin’s a contributor to Amnesty International.) Pol Pot? And others? Would Sen. Durbin care to "describe" those "others" in the same explicit detail. I’ll you he can’t say "Saddam Hussein" or "Mao Tse-tung". And I never did here "Stalin" in that diatribe. To invoke the latter two would be a breach of liberal ideology; they’ll never admit that. If they do, the world might stop spinning. They’ve defended both far too long.
Hussein’s a different topic altogether. For so long they have railed about the war in Iraq, and refused to truly address the atrocities committed by Saddam Hussein. To address that about a man—that for the most part they have defended—would be devastating, and it would reveal them to be liars to so many of their extreme Left followers; the people they truly count on as their base. This isn’t an indictment of the entire party, but far too many of it’s leaders speak out like this.
Ted Kennedy, and others accused the president of lying.
John Kerry repeatedly questioned the president on his handling of this war, and accused him of misleading the nation into a "new" war. (Um, Sen. Kerry, it’s called a "new phase" of a war; a soldier would be able to differentiate.)
Hillary Clinton demanded to know what the president knew about 11 September, and when he knew it; basically accusing him of advanced knowledge, and failing to do anything about it.
Name them: Byrd, Boxer, Dayton, Kennedy, Kerry, Clinton, Schumer, Bayh, Biden, Dodd, and Leahy; they’ve all been equally outspoken in comparison to Dean, yet the remarks they make don’t make it to the nightly news. And they won’t. These people are given a pass. I don’t give them a pass, and that includes Sen. Durbin.
This man needs a reminder of history regarding those regimes that he cited. Those people, and the three I included killed over 75 million people in the 20th Century; and they did it ruthlessly. The deaths we inflict in war are regrettable; civilians are NEVER the target. The people cited above did this willingly, and near gleefully. I see no glee from the soldiers when an unfortunate death occurs.
And I see no torture or abuse at Gitmo. Those detainees had better pray that they don’t get someone like me down there in charge of their detention and interrogation; cold and heat would be the last things they’d be worried about. I’m not advocating "torture", but there are ways to get the information we need, and it doesn’t involve coddling these people. They live better now than they did on the battlefield against our troops.
How screwed up is that?
Publius II
posted by Syd And Vaughn | 6:36 PM
1 Comments:
"Publius":
You chose your namesake wisely. Over the last week or so, I have seen wisdom from you that would even invoke envy from the Founding Fathers and Framers; you truly represent those that are fed up, and have little recourse.
Durbin is as much an embarrassment to his party as Dean is; even more than those others you listed later. Durbin should know better. His latest diatribe sounds like he's trying to draw headlines.
The Democrats remind me of a child throwing a tantrum in the middle of a room, and will scream louder only as they hear others approaching. They are silent, otherwise.
If the Senate were to find it's spine, it would be a force to be reckoned with. I am perplexed; why did the GOP not take notes during their reign in Congress?
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