X-Ray Vision—Part II

Turban Durbin opens mouth, inserts foot…

I’ve briefly commented on the current attacks on the War on Terror by Congressional Democrats, offered in disguise as hand wringing and apologies for imagined “atrocities” committed by US soldiers and purported to be approved at the highest levels of the Bush administration.

Minority whip Dick “Turban” Durbin issued this little treasonistic bashing on the Senate floor on Tuesday this week:

“The Senate's No. 2 Democrat has compared the U.S. military's treatment of a suspected al Qaeda terrorist at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay with the regimes of Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin and Pol Pot, three of history's most heinous dictators, whose regimes killed millions.

In a speech on the Senate floor late Tuesday, Minority Whip Richard J. Durbin, Illinois Democrat, castigated the American military's actions by reading an e-mail from an FBI agent.

The agent complained to higher-ups that one al Qaeda suspect was chained to the floor, kept in an extremely cold air-conditioned cell and forced to hear loud rap music. The Justice Department is investigating.”

The proverbial shit hit the fan on a low level, mainly on FOX News and within republican circles, but it reached a crescendo on Friday, forcing Turban Durbin to offer the following non-apology apology:

“Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said Friday that he regretted any misunderstandings caused by his comments earlier this week comparing American interrogators at Guantanamo Bay to Nazis. The White House, Senate Republicans and others had called for an apology after Durbin's comments Tuesday...

On Friday, Durbin tried to clarify the issue. "My statement in the Senate was critical of the policies of this Administration, which add to the risk our soldiers face," he said in a statement released Friday afternoon.

"I have learned from my statement that historical parallels can be misused and misunderstood. I sincerely regret if what I said caused anyone to misunderstand my true feelings: Our soldiers around the world and their families at home deserve our respect, admiration and total support."

To quote one of my Blog Idols, Captain Ed, over at Captains Quarters, Turban Durbin’s statement mounts essentially to saying “I'm sorry you were too stupid to understand me.”

The mainstream media and the Democrats clearly have tilted off of their respective rockers by supporting Turban Durbin’s comparison of US actions to past atrocities:

“About 9 million persons, including 6 million Jews, died in Hitler's death camps, 2.7 million persons died in Stalin's gulags and 1.7 million Cambodians died in Pol Pot's scourge of his country.

No prisoners have died at Guantanamo, and the Pentagon has acknowledged five instances of abuse or irreverent handling of the Koran, the holy book of Muslims...

Mr. Durbin also likened the treatment of terror suspects at the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's decision to authorize the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

It took us almost 40 years for us to acknowledge that we were wrong, to admit that these people should never have been imprisoned. It was a shameful period in American history," Mr. Durbin said. "I believe the torture techniques that have been used at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo and other places fall into that same category."

So Turban Durban thinks that capturing and interrogating enemy combatants on the battlefield is equivalent to interring Japanese civilians?

I say that Turban Durban is a $%#& Moron, and here is the thing that bothers me the most.

All of this public discourse and dissent isn't happening in a vacuum, it's hapening on world wide cable networks. Further, as a result of Turban Durbin's partisan stupidity, our enemies see all Americans as stupid and soft and easy to defeat philisophically, because there is a stupid, soft, defeatist minority that gets all of the press and is allowed to apparently speak for all Americans.

Is this what you want your elected officials saying to the world on your behalf?

If not, and if you live in a state like Turban Durbin’s Illinois or any state supporting a US Representative or Senator making these treasonous public statements, I challenge you to contact their office, in writing or by telephone, and tell them what you think about this situation.

My Senator Saxby Chambliss will be hearing from me, and he is just an innocent bystander in the process.

How can you sit idly by while things like this are going on?