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June 21, 2005

The "Real" Dick Durbin Apology

Topics: Political News and commentaries

In a time of war, Senator Dubin made inflammatory and extremely harmful false statements  against his country's military that has no value whatsoever except to America's enemies.

But that's supposed to be all okay now, because "Turbin" Durbin has apologized. Right?

The AP reports that "Under fire from Republicans and some fellow Democrats, Sen. Dick Durbin apologized Tuesday for comparing American interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp to Nazis and other historically infamous figures."

California Conservative offers that it came after a week's worth of negative publicity.

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American Future has the transcript of Durbin's speech, and comments that "Durbin apologized for offending some people, not for what he said.  He hasn't changed his mind, and he's not pretending to change his mind. As far as I'm concerned, his "apology" changes nothing: he still deserves to be censured."

You may recall that last Tuesday, Senator Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, quoted a report of U.S. so-called "atrocities" at Guantanamo and then added:

"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."

Mark Steyn hammered Durbin with:

"This isn't a Republican vs Democrat thing; it's about senior Democrats who are so over-invested in their hatred of a passing administration that they've signed on to the nuttiest slurs of the lunatic fringe. It would be heartening to think that Durbin will himself now be subjected to some serious torture. Not real torture, of course; I don't mean using Pol Pot techniques and playing the Celine Dion Christmas album really loud to him. But he should at least be made a little uncomfortable over what he's done -- in a time of war, make an inflammatory libel against his country's military that has no value whatsoever except to America's enemies. Shame on him, and shame on those fellow senators and Democrats who by their refusal to condemn him endorse his slander."

Censored? No! For aiding the enemy in a time of war, he should resign and be prosecuted as a traitor to his country. But then, of course, we'd have to prosecute the entire Democratic leadership,  and John McCain too.

Posted by Hyscience at June 21, 2005 11:18 PM

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