“I’m literally just stunned.”
If you listen to Rush Limbaugh regularly, you know that while he finds things shocking … few things actually shock him. Yet, yesterday on his show …
Uh, you know… (sigh) I’m just stunned. I’m literally just stunned.
This, in response to the statement of Senator Dick Durbin made yesterday on the Senate floor. I am linking to Rush’s quote of the remarks and linking where he linked.
“‘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 ( Photos | history) 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.”
When a caller alerted Rush to the unbelievable remarks, I could not imagine a leader (and I use the term loosely) of our nation saying such horrible things. Yet there it is. The Democrats and Liberals at their finest. MainStreamMedia has given little, if any, attention to this story and Sen. Durban’s office claims this is only a big deal because Rush is talking about it. Not true. If you are a Democrat reading this … can you continue to be so in the face of such despicable beliefs by one of your leaders? I find it baffling that the realm of torture is now supposed to include listening to loud music. Not to mention what Sean Hannity has to say about all this, you can imagine if you have ever heard his show.
Sen. Durbin completely believes what he said was a valid critique of the Military and is not backing down. “Sen. Durbin Stands by Guantanamo Remarks,” states FoxNews. Not surprising, since the current face of the Democratic party is to defame the Military, Republicans, Conservatives, and even those in their own party who are not in line with their supremely Left beliefs. The growing number of Democrats who do not follow this crooked line of thought, need to make a stand inside their party and try to save their party.
Can the following be said of any activity at Guantanamo Bay?
I heard already the motor, the gas motor working with a high…You know from the gas motor, the scream. They started…they started very loud like “Ahhh….,” very loud, even louder than the motor. They had a big motor there. Later about 15 minutes down…down and until quiet was. This was Sobibor.
~ Tomasz (Toivi) Blatt (personal stories from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
Bloggers are the only ones who seem to care about the repugnant statements of Sen. Durbin.
One of the first to break the story was The American Thinker with:
Illinois Senator losing his mind?
Senator Durbin, what if….?
What’s a bigger national embarrassment - Gitmo or Durbin?
American Thinker accused of lying and propaganda
Wizbang has a great piece: Let’s *Really* Compare U.S. Soldiers to Nazis
Little Green Footballs has this about those defending Durbin’s statements.
Michele Malkin had a post back in March that proves the people being held at Guantanamo Bay are not the innocents that some on the Left want us to believe. Additionally, Ms. Malkin also comments on this whole situation here and here.
From The Editors at The Unalienable Right
That’s right, Dick. The Nazi concentration camps were known for turning down the air conditioning and pumping up the Christina Aguilera music. The gulags were known for providing prisoners with their desired religious texts and culturally appropriate meals. What an ignorant, hateful, despicable comment from this Democratic leader.
… Side note: Though I do not particularly like Christinia Aguilera’s music, I would hardly (in seriousness) call it torture …
Pardon My English has Guantanamo Madness: The Left’s Perspective Problem
IMAO weighs in with …
Yeah, I remember the horror stories of the lack of air conditioning in the Nazi concentration camps (who wants to bet my brother in Iraq is dealing with hotter weather right now in his un-air conditioned tank?). Pol Pot, though, loved to turn up on the AC on his dissenters, that monster! Oh, and then there was the notorious use of the Notorious B.I.G. in the Soviet gulags.
You can read Sen. Durbin’s full statement here.
Find Rush on the radio in your area.
Find Sean Hannity on the radio in your area (bottom left on the main page) … and weeknights on Hannity & Colms on the Fox News Network.
Going back to Sen. Durbin’s definition of torture … listening to loud music and the air conditioner turned way down. My street has some new neighbors who almost every weekend and sometimes weekdays play their music very loudly. I can hear it clearly inside my house .. and I live 3 houses down. What would happen if I waltzed down there and demanded they stop, comparing them to the Nazi’s of WWII? I live with 3 hot-natured people, meaning they need more air-conditioning because they get hot easier than normal. I am cold-natured, I get cold sometimes even in slightly warmer temperatures. I shudder to think what would happen to me, if I accused the others of being Nazi torturers because I was too cold in my room. (I am not talking about slightly chilled … I live in Texas … it gets really hot here and I sleep with flannel sheets and an electric blanket always at the ready … year round!) No, neither of these situations compare to the punishment, if you can even call it that, given to the prisoners-of-war at the Guantanamo Bay facility. However … it is no more of a stretch than comparing our United States Military to the thugs and terrorists whose credits included horrific treatments that often ended in a brutal death. How many prisoners have died at Guantanamo Bay … none, not a single one. What kind of “death camp” has no deaths?
Update for this post: Rush’s links are only good for that day, visits after require a paid subscription.
June 16th, 2005 at 11:53 pm e
Outraged. And here’s the thing these leftist nitwits (sorry, that’s redundant) fail to grasp: When they continuously compare President Bush to Adolf Hitler, and the United States Armed Forces to Nazis and Communist butchers, they minimize the truly horrific actions of Hitler, the Nazis, and the Communists. Such statements are meant to insult President Bush and our military, but what they really do is “soften” the memory of the atrocities. Imagine being alive in 60 years and hearing the liberal media compare a large tax cut to the catastrophe of 9/11. How outraged would you be? How does that kind of reckless comparison minimize the horror of 9/11? You would be screaming at the top of your lungs, “Hey! I was alive when that happened! I WATCHED it happen!” And so, all of us who have seen those grainy black and white films of emaciated, naked corpses piled in mass graves ought to stand up and scream, “I have SEEN what the Nazis did!” Senator Durbin, you should get down on your knees and beg forgiveness from the men and women of the U.S. military, their Commander-in-Chief, AND every last survivor of the Holocaust.
June 17th, 2005 at 3:12 pm e
Let’s jail “Turbin” under some sedition law. I believe they exist. As Sawa said, his analogy of our troops actions being like the Nazis make the Holocaust look like a bank robbery. Good point.