The ultra-right wingnuts in outer Wingnuttia are so spun up over Dick Durbin's comments as they try and deflect the news that Preznit Lucky Sperm is going down faster in the polls than Mary Carey in their favorite hot girl-on-girl porn movie. Mark Steyn writing in the Chicago Sun-Times seems to have forgotten something when he wrote this:
This isn't a Republican vs Democrat thing; it's about senior Democrats who are so over-invested in their hatred of a passing administration that they've signed on to the nuttiest slurs of the lunatic fringe.
Let's see...Vince Foster, Rose Law Office Billing records, anything related to Hillary, The Mighty Clenis™, Vince Foster, Henry Cisneros (still on-going), The Starr Report, $70 Million for a blowjob, Impeachment of a sitting president as revenge for Watergate (source: Henry Hyde)
The veteran republican is also admitting for the first time that the impeachment of Clinton may have been in part political revenge against the democrats for the impeachment proceedings against GOP President Richard Nixon 25 years earlier. *
"Was this pay back?" asked Andy Shaw.
"I can't say it wasn't."
...and the list could go on. So no Mark, I'll have to go with the party who was so "over-invested" with hatred being the ones in power now, not the Democrats who are speaking truth to power, unlike mindless conservitard drones who write newpaper columns and recite their masters talking points Verbatim.
Hey, it's a shame about those poll numbers, isn't it?
posted by Jo Fish on 06.19.05 at 04:01 PM
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So, how does any of that justify comparing Guantanamo to Soviet gulags, Nazi death camps, or Cambodian killing fields? That only cheapens the memories of those who died in such horrors, and makes it easier to dismiss legitimate criticisms of Guantanamo as hysterical ranting.
We deserve better from both parties, and we should demand better from any party that asks for our support.
posted by: qetzal on 06.19.05 at 10:01 PM [permalink]
None of it justifies those comparisons, nor does it have to. The behavior at Gitmo justifies it. Look up how the Nazis treated prisoners at the concentration camps. Causing them to urinate and defecate on themselves was a standard part of the dehumanization that went on there. No, we haven't started gassing people. On the other hand, I expect better from my country than "not as bad as Hitler."
Comparing Gitmo to Hitler is definitely out of line, but shit. We really ought to aspire to more than "not as bad as Hitler."
The war on terror is a war of ideas, just like the Cold War was. We will win by proving to the world that our way of life is better than the one promised by Al Qaida. I love this country because it's a place that stands for more than "not as bad as Hitler."
posted by: The Dean on 06.20.05 at 11:54 AM [permalink]
