You want crock ... I'll give you crock!
Have you ever before heard such loudly obscene excrescence (Yup! Dippy Dicky Durbin is a wart) by the looney lefty minimwits about the treatment of prisoners at GITMO?
GET.A.GRIP ... or does reality never even cross your path.
There really is an asshat around every corner ...
Oh, man .... this one's too much fun ..... has to be .... developing ...
GET.A.GRIP ... or does reality never even cross your path.
There really is an asshat around every corner ...
Durbin said his comments had been misinterpreted as an attack on the U.S. military, adding he did not even know who was in charge of the particular interrogation cited in the FBI agent's account. "Sadly, we have a situation here where some in the right-wing media say I've been insulting men and women in uniform," he said. "Nothing could be farther from the truth."Master Goldstein boldly interprets, LGF is in fine hunting form and Ace, as usual, rips the lid off. Superman and Michelle weigh in. Fileitunder brings it home.
Durbin conceded that the regimes he had cited had committed horrors far beyond the techniques he had condemned at Guantanamo. But he said it was "no exaggeration" to suggest that the techniques cited by the FBI agent were not acceptable in a democracy. "This is the kind of thing you expect from repressive regimes but not from the United States," he said.
Oh, man .... this one's too much fun ..... has to be .... developing ...
posted by Diana at 10:39 AM
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"...adding he did not even know who was in charge of the particular interrogation cited in the FBI agent's account." Hahaha. "Jeez, I didn't even know the military was in charge of that place. I thought maybe it was the Young Republicans club or something, maybe Halliburton. Hey, 'being aware of who controls our detention centers' is not in my job description. I'm a US Senator for Christ's sake!"
And if you look at the full text of his statements, he comes across as an even bigger nut.
"From my 6 1/2 years of captivity in Vietnam, I know what life in a foreign prison is like. To a large degree, I credit the Geneva Conventions for my survival... This is one reason the United States has led the world in upholding treaties governing the status and care of enemy prisoners: because these standards also protect us..." Now I certainly respect the Senator's service during Vietnam, but this is just bullshit. N. Vietnam didn't follow the Geneva Conventions. That's just nuts. You can read any other description of POWs in Vietnam, N. Vietnam just did not follow the Conventions. And we don't follow the Geneva Conventions because they're protect us, we do it because they're the right thing to do. The last country I can think of that we fought that followed the Geneva Conventions to any extent was Nazi Germany.
Then there's this passage: "Imagine if the President had followed Colin Powell's advice and respected our treaty obligations. How would things have been different? We still would have the ability to hold detainees and to interrogate them aggressively. Members of al-Qaida would not be prisoners of war." Well, yes they would if they came under the protection of the Geneva Conventions. As it stands they are not covered under the Conventions. Which you would have to agree with if you believe they are not prisoners of war, or understood anything about international law or, you know, logic.
You know, I think I'm much farther to the left on prisoner treatment compared to some of the blogs I hang around, but this is just stupid.
It's ok, we all have our moments.
Heh. Holy excrescence!
I know ... I get a little carried away sometimes :)
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