[powderboy]

So, anyone else outraged by Senator Durban's (D-IL) rant about Gitmo yesterday? Now, I can understand that every Democrat in this country likes to jump on every "I hate Bush" bandwagon, but this has gone WAY too far and has struck a raw nerve with me.

Comparing our treatment of Gitmo detainees to Nazi's and Soviet's is flat out the stupidest remark of the century.

I see now that the Anti Defamation League has written a pretty harsh letter requesting that he apologize:

Dear Senator Durbin:

We write to object to your reference to Nazis in the context of the debate on detainees at Guantanamo Bay on the Senate floor earlier this week.

Whatever your views on the treatment of detainees and alleged excesses at the Guantanamo Bay facility, it is inappropriate and insensitive to suggest that actions by American troops in any way resemble actions taken by Nazis in their treatment of prisoners. Suggesting some kind of equivalence between their interrogation tactics demonstrates a profound lack of understanding about the horrors that Hitler and his regime actually perpetrated.

We urge you to repudiate your remarks and apologize to the American people for distorting an important issue with an inappropriate comparison to Nazi tactics. However heated the debate over issues of the day, we would urge you to refrain from using Holocaust imagery in the future.


The Anti-Defamation League

I say we throw his sorry can out of the Senate... what do you think?

 

[valve bouncer]

Fair enough I reckon. Genghis Khan references are far more appropriate.