It is not summer camp.
I do not know if I am more shocked by the beliefs of Senator Durbin or by how many people who are either supporting his statements or claiming its a non-issue. Both groups stun me at their ignorance. Why are they not more outraged?
My cousin wrote this in her comment yesterday, in case you missed it …
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.
She could not be more correct! There are barely any people living who actually saw the atrocities of the Nazi concentration camps and the Soviet Gulags. A man, Troy Harris, that I grew up around was in WWII and witnessed the concentration camps first hand as he was one of those who helped liberate them. He and his eight brothers were all in WWII and only eight Harris boys came home. I talked about earlier about the youngest brother, “Pug” Harris, who was killed in action. Troy, on the rare occasions he would speak of the war, would say that while all the attention was on the big camps, small camps were scattered all over. He said that even more than forty years after the war, he could still remember the smell in the air of burning flesh as if it was yesterday. He could not shake the memory. Burning flesh.
I was not able to catch any of the radio talk shows today but Rush has portions of his show available free for that day only, and this is a particularly good section… referring to Durbin of course …
This is a man who needs to be reminded what the Nazi death camps, the Russian gulags, and the Cambodian killing fields look like. He needs to take some time off from his political gamesmanship and educate himself about the regimes that he used as examples to smear and defame the thankless work of the brave American soldiers working down at G’itmo, and when he’s done taking that tour, Durbin needs to immediate with some of the survivors of these death camps. He needs to educate himself about how they fought to live under these most inhumane conditions. Next on this tour Durbin needs to go back do Ground Zero and that field in Pennsylvania and the Pentagon and take a looked good look at where how 3,000 of his fellow Americans were slaughtered in cold blood. Senator Durbin needs to be reminded of how some of them jumped to their deaths, were burned to death or were crushed to death, and he needs to meet with the families of the dead.The cops, the firefighters, the wives and husbands, the children, the parents and grandparents who lost loved ones, and then Dick Durbin needs to go to Walter Reed and other hospitals treating our brave men and women in uniform, some of whom are struggling to live because of major head or organ wounds, those who have lost limbs or sight or hearing or are horribly burned. He should talk to these soldiers and their families, and after he visits these hospitals he should go to Arlington National Cemetery where so many of our heroes have been buried defending our country in this war and past wars. And on the last leg of his education tour, then send him to G’itmo. He should witness how our magnificent troupes care for the enemy, an enemy that is in fact the latest incarnation of the Nazis, the Stalinists and the Cambodian communists. Let him see for himself the difference between good and evil, and see that we are good and that they are evil. He will see that these American soldiers he smears and defames are the only line of defense we have against the would-be mass murderers of September 11th. Take that trip, Senator Durbin. I will pay for it, if you will take it.
Every single person who supports Durbin, should take that educational trip with him. Not just read what happened … see it, feel it, really understand what happened. Because it’s obvious .. they have no clue. While the assassination of President Kennedy is a whole different incident, Dallas has what is called the Sixth Floor Museum. Anyone who visits that museum is transported to November 1963. Through the use of video clips, audio clips, pictures, and models … you feel that you are right there when it happens. The emotion is real. This is nothing in comparison to what the emotion and experience of visiting the Holocaust Museum must be like. I can state without reservation, that it is not people who have visited that museum who are supporting Durbin. Everyone should visit and see what torture is, how a repressive regime treats their people, and what
more from Rush …
I don’t want to hear ever again from Democrats how you support the troops. I don’t want to hear it. I don’t want to get into a waste of time arguing with you about your notion that you can support the troops but disagree with the mission. I don’t want to hear it. It’s intellectually vacant. It makes no sense, and it’s insulting, and I don’t want to. You all are telling us clearly what your priorities are here. You’re telling us on whose side in this you really are. You’ve got al-Jazeera — al-Jazeera on television, and their website — plastering Durbin’s words all over the plays because he know what an assistance those words are. They know how helpful Durbin’s words are in ginning up the very thing Durbin fears is what’s going on at G’itmo. He thinks that’s what’s going on is G’itmo is going to cause more hate to accrue to Americans.What Durbin is saying is going to do that. Durbin is creating far more than G’itmo or Abu Ghraib ever could, a false impression of the United States. He is telling a bunch of leftist ideologues around the world that this is the new Nazi Germany, that we may as well have Pol Pot running this country. Such is their hatred for Bush and the Democratic Party that some of them may actually believe this. But I think it’s time for Senator Durbin to take this trip, if nothing else, to acquaint himself with the facts so that he can be duly embarrassed — if he’s capable of that.
I fail to see how Durbin connects the dots between the people held in the Nazi camps and Soviet gulags as the same kind of people held at Guantanamo Bay. The only people held at Guantanamo Bay are people who were captured in the act of attacking the United States, or planning a major attack on the United States. If, if you are really concerned about the prisoners well-being, there is a strong argument to be made that they are much better off where they are. Their mission in life is to kill any and as many as possible Americans! They would not be relaxing on the beach somewhere, if we had not snatched them out of their peaceful existence … they would be planning/implementing attacks on the U. S. Military, U. S. citizens around the world, and any nation and their citizens they believe to be enemies. Which is almost every nation in the world. At the point they are at now, their sad childhood does not matter. They do not get special points for being treated poorly by adults around them growing up. Call it callous, call it harsh … there is only so much you can help a person who is consumed by hate and violence. Do not kid yourself … they are consumed by hate and violence and are willing to act on those feelings. Have so many already forgotten what happened no so long ago in New York City? I have not heard any description of the treatment of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay that causes me pause and makes me consider what exactly are we doing down there. What exactly are we supposed to do to the prisoners … ask them nicely with sugar on top to give us the information we need to protect our nation? No, not today? Go figure. It is not supposed to be pleasant. It is not summer camp!