Durbin Supports the Troops
Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, took the Senate floor yesterday and likened American servicemen to Nazis:
When you read some of the graphic descriptions of what has occurred here [at Guantanamo Bay]--I almost hesitate to put them in the [Congressional] Record, and yet they have to be added to this debate. Let me read to you what one FBI agent saw. And I quote from his report:
On a couple of occasions, I entered interview rooms to find a detainee chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor, with no chair, food or water. Most times they urinated or defecated on themselves, and had been left there for 18-24 hours or more. 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.
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."
Several points Durbin forgot to mention:
This was an ununiformed enemy combatant, fighting a war while hiding behind civies.
These are the same group of people that flew our plans into our buildings, killing 3000 US Citizens.
These are the terrorists, in league with the same people that capture and slowly beheaded Nick Byrd; and other US contractors in Iraq. Being chained to a floor with the air conditioner on doesn't sound like torture.
The Treatment of the prisoners:
"“We treat these people very well,” Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., said on “Fox News Sunday.” “We supply every one of them with the Koran. We supply them with oil. We supply them with prayer beads. Five times a day on the prison system, we do the call to prayer with arrows pointing in the direction of Mecca and assist them in their prayer ritual.”" (Reference)
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I'm not sure its politics. By saying these things, he would want to gain poitical support in the process. But who's support is he gaining? If it's his base, thats more frightening then him acctually beliving it, because then a large portion of the United States belives our military is the same as the Nazis.
On the other hand, you could just have a fringe leftist voicing his baseless beiliefs, throwing political stategery into the wind.
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