Dick Durbin Pulls a Dean
It is noteworthy, in light of the Senate Minority Whip's viciously seditious remarks on the Senate floor last night, that Dick Durbin was front & center in trying to defend DNC Chairman Howard Dean's recent oratorical scatalogy last week.
Judging by the following quote, it looks like Dean's brand of partisan dementia rubbed off generously on the Illinois Idiot:
J. James Estrada at the American Thinker ascribes these words to "insanity." I think that's far too generous and excuses Durbin's actions far too much.
First of all, it is equal parts calculated and appalling historical ignorance. No, actually, let me amend that - it is calculated ignorance counting on appalling historical ignorance on the part of the American people. Pol Pot slaughtered three million Cambodians (as a direct consequence of the pell-mell U.S. abandonment of South Vietnam that people like Durbin orchestrated) The Nazis hanged, gassed, and shot to death some six million Jews and half again as many of other groups, like Gypsies, Poles, and other slavic ethnicities. And the Soviet Gulag liquidated an estimated sixty million Russians and other subject nationalities over its three-quarters of a century of operations.
Hot, cold, and Christina Aquilera's greatest hits are not "torture," not "abuse," and barely even hazing. Torture is the infliction of severe physical pain as a means of punishment or coercion. Torture is hanging you by the thumbs. Torture is hanging you by your feet and clubbing you with rubber hoses and baseball bats. Torture is electrocuting you via your genitalia. Torture is feeding you bodily through a wood-chipper. Torture is what we frakking stopped by invading Iraq, an errand of mercy that Senator Durbin was not much in favor of, as I recall.
Dick Durbin is not insane, and he's not this appallingly ignorant. He plainly and simply hates his president and hates the country that elected him so much that he will do and say anything, including blood-libeling the military, offering overt aid & comfort to our enemies, and willfully inviting further mass terror attacks against American civilians.
And he is, sadly, entirely reflective of his party's "mainstream."
UPDATE 6/16: Here's another thought.
Remember how during last year's campaign the Democrat line was that Operation Iraqi Freedom was a "distraction from the war on terror"? As if removing one of the prime state sponsors of terrorism in the Middle East wasn't part, and indeed at the very heart of, that war.
Well, what has Gitmo to do with Iraq? Isn't Gitmo where we're holding the worst of the Talibanis and al Qaeda-ites, the ones who would turn America into a sea of flaming blood if they could? Doesn't this mean that the anti-war left, as fronted by people like Pat Leahy and Dick Durbin, have now turned against the very war from which they claimed that Iraq was a "distraction?"
Quite an education we're getting this week, if you ask me.
Judging by the following quote, it looks like Dean's brand of partisan dementia rubbed off generously on the Illinois Idiot:
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.My gut response: So? He's a terrorist, Senator; he's an illegal combatant. Given the opportunity he would happily saw your empty head off and jam it on a prayer stake, and blow entire American cities into irradiated slag. A little bout of personal discomfort doesn't begin to even approach what he truly and fully deserves. Gitmo is a prison for such animals, not a frakking resort.
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.
J. James Estrada at the American Thinker ascribes these words to "insanity." I think that's far too generous and excuses Durbin's actions far too much.
First of all, it is equal parts calculated and appalling historical ignorance. No, actually, let me amend that - it is calculated ignorance counting on appalling historical ignorance on the part of the American people. Pol Pot slaughtered three million Cambodians (as a direct consequence of the pell-mell U.S. abandonment of South Vietnam that people like Durbin orchestrated) The Nazis hanged, gassed, and shot to death some six million Jews and half again as many of other groups, like Gypsies, Poles, and other slavic ethnicities. And the Soviet Gulag liquidated an estimated sixty million Russians and other subject nationalities over its three-quarters of a century of operations.
Hot, cold, and Christina Aquilera's greatest hits are not "torture," not "abuse," and barely even hazing. Torture is the infliction of severe physical pain as a means of punishment or coercion. Torture is hanging you by the thumbs. Torture is hanging you by your feet and clubbing you with rubber hoses and baseball bats. Torture is electrocuting you via your genitalia. Torture is feeding you bodily through a wood-chipper. Torture is what we frakking stopped by invading Iraq, an errand of mercy that Senator Durbin was not much in favor of, as I recall.
Dick Durbin is not insane, and he's not this appallingly ignorant. He plainly and simply hates his president and hates the country that elected him so much that he will do and say anything, including blood-libeling the military, offering overt aid & comfort to our enemies, and willfully inviting further mass terror attacks against American civilians.
And he is, sadly, entirely reflective of his party's "mainstream."
UPDATE 6/16: Here's another thought.
Remember how during last year's campaign the Democrat line was that Operation Iraqi Freedom was a "distraction from the war on terror"? As if removing one of the prime state sponsors of terrorism in the Middle East wasn't part, and indeed at the very heart of, that war.
Well, what has Gitmo to do with Iraq? Isn't Gitmo where we're holding the worst of the Talibanis and al Qaeda-ites, the ones who would turn America into a sea of flaming blood if they could? Doesn't this mean that the anti-war left, as fronted by people like Pat Leahy and Dick Durbin, have now turned against the very war from which they claimed that Iraq was a "distraction?"
Quite an education we're getting this week, if you ask me.
posted by JASmius at 11:50 AM
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