Well, that was easy. There can't be many who have not heard the recent ravings of Dick Durbin, (D) the senior Senator from Illinois. I have little to add that isn't obscene or wouldn't violate some law. I'll let his home-town paper speak.
From the Chicago Tribune, June 17, 2005.
...And then Durbin said this: "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."
Here we thought Sen. Dick Durbin had a cushy job that he likes. Truth told, he's auditioning for the job of Speechwriter/Silly Similes at Amnesty International. Nazis? Soviets? Pol Pot? Mad regimes?
We know what Durbin thinks about the treatment of Guantanamo prisoners. So what's the proper treatment of our coverage-hungry senior senator when he displaces the ever-present microphone long enough to insert his foot in his mouth? Ignore him. That would be torture.
Perhaps, though, citizens should be grateful. At least Durbin has stopped repeating that odd little joke about President Lincoln--that he must have been Jewish because his first name was Abraham and he was shot in the temple.
Very good job. I am still too angry to spit.
Posted by: Rosemary | 06/17/2005 at 02:15 PM