Another fine example of how Americans are helping the enemies win the War On Terror. Sen. Richard J. Durbin spewed off the other day about the Gitmo camp…and what he said has been aired on Terror TV in the middle east, Al Jazeera. His comments must make the US Military feel real proud. Can we re-define the word TREASON now?
The Senate Armed Services Committee chairman yesterday accused Sen. Richard J. Durbin of insulting American soldiers with a “grievous error in judgment” by comparing U.S. treatment of al Qaeda suspects to the crimes of Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin and Pol Pot, and demanded that the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat apologize.
The rebuke followed a similar rebuke by the commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, who called Mr. Durbin “totally out of line.”
Republican lawmakers lined up to condemn the remarks as making the war on terror more dangerous for American troops.
This is more than just being out of line. This is really bad politics being used to gain attention. Using situations that are vital to our national security isn’t right.
Some were particularly angry about the Al Jazeera Arab-language news station, which had posted Mr. Durbin’s Nazi comparison made in a Tuesday night floor speech.
“That’s horrible. That’s our worst nightmare,” said Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican, about the posting by the network, which the administration accuses of stirring up anti-Americanism.
In a Tuesday night speech to the Senate, after reading an e-mail from a FBI agent, Mr. Durbin said: “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 as the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners.”
I hope this nut Durbin isn’t planning on too much of a political future. What is it with all these people in the Senate, who know full well that their words have a huge impact on the safety of our military, using such harsh and untrue comparisons?
