I agree.

Durbin's apology was one of the worst moments I've experienced since the election. It was like a comic-opera version of Darkness At Noon.

When are Congressional Democrats going to get 1)smart and 2)tough? - Actually, that's not really fair since I think their overall performance has been pretty good; but Durbin shows they can still be rolled when the issue is *National Security*!!

We need more people like Al Smith, by whose eulogy all Democratic politicians should be inspired: "We love him for the enemies he made." (Can't remember who said that.)

Did Durbin have a date with Gannon/Guckert to practice giving head before doing it publicly?

Buzz Meeks

I wrote a letter to ChiTri in defense of Durbin and Daley. Daley went after DUrbin, his son is in training and one Rummy singature could send him to the meatgrinder of the front lines.

So cut Daley slack. Same for Durbin, he said what needed to be said. Thirteen arrest warrants in Italy are proving Durbin was right.

Letter file...daily kos and this link:
Zorn's story linked on the lower thread, kos' reply to what another said is to say 'what Dubin should have said'.

Let's go with what he said and address this in realistic terms. My reply to Tribune:

(RE:Zorn piece) Daley has an armed forces family member serving, cut him slack for getting emotional.
Durbin was in the right to call those policies into question. He never criticised an individual person named in the field. This reflects the full focus of his concerns- that policies put in action prohibited people in their ability to uphold the law, as representatives of our country.

The FBI, no longer honoring the word of spirit of law, watched this, they are complicit in allowing this to happen as well. The FBI enforces policy, they witnessed procedure that was in violation of law and only noted its occurrence. Their obligation to uphold the law is gone, without that the FBI is in and of itself no better a comparison to the political powers of past repression. As Durbin noted, his questioning was of whether we want our American ideals to be assumed an example in regards to the actions seen and recorded. These with which people would assume our armed forces are complicit via proximity. Collateral damage is the result of allowing this to occur, and the bad trail of evidence such tactics produce helps nobody in our efforts to secure the peace and keep soldiers safe.

The FBI has an obligation to carry out policy. The policy is what determined their action. Wrong policy results in wrong action and the FBI honored the word of their instructions, but violated the laws' word and spirit so doing. The FBI is now as guilty as any individual wrong doers they witnessed in this specific instance.Still this is tangent to the central fact of the Durbin statements.

The Policy is to blame, not Mayor Daley or Senator Durbin or the FBI or the soldiers acting under orders to the full extent noted. Under the UCMJ, the command structure must assume accountability in this instance of documented wrongdoing.

The policy made for wrongdoing to become procedure. The people are prohibited in their response and must observe orders and carry out policy in ways that bear negative fruit.

Nobody is outraged that our chief enforcement body has become powerless to stop witnessed wrongdoing?

Nobody is angry that our armed forces, soldiers who wear emblems that uphold our flag and serve with pride, are forced to be in the presence of such shameful actions?

Someone has made statements of record upon our highest floor of Lawmakers to note his objections to this policy.

In no instance did he single out a specific person, and for being sensitive in this respect, his general statement was misconstrued. He has since apoligised for those who felt his words were intent on wrongdoing.

As for people saying his words infuriate resistance, Iraq has negligoble electric power outside the green zone, those people don't watch CNN or O'Rielly or the drive time radio or news. They have survival on mind and are instead worried about that.

If anything this statment helped convince other moderates hearing that not all Americans would represent this policy, especially the Men and Women serving our armed forces, whom Durbin does represent.

Such statements in Saudi Arabia would have resulted in public beheading, yet Bush celebrates their assistance in our war on terror. There is a similar campaign here, to behead Durbin in effigy.

With allies like these strong armed Sauds, who needs enemies? Sauds helped the 9-11 hijackers get in America and trained to fly. The White House rushed members of the Bin Laden family out when we really needed information on other possible AlQaeda cells at that time.

Who knows- we may have helped to stop Madrid in so doing, we may have helped prevent other kidnappings and beheadings.

But instead let's blame someone brave enough to point out that wrong policy will make more enemies. Wrong policy will make it more difficult for our service members to win the peace. Wrong policy will draw valid comparisons with other despots. Wrong policy also produces wrong INTEL.

Wrong policy is to blame and in those ambitions it adds fuel to fires of hostility.

Reflex is a human trait, and violence instigates the worst reflex mechanism, that of vengeance.

That seperates Justice from vengeance. The law allows you the moral high ground, from there you can gain support in other lands to win the war on terror. Without it you are digging a deep hole.

Durbin dug a hole in his choice of words, but the dirt he moved filled other holes of perception from policy that the White House helped dig.

These holes of policy premeditate the middle ground and make it difficult for others to meet and help us halfway in the war on terror. Unilateral action will not end this. The latest reports and INTEL assessments of terror prove record incidence in response to this policy.

The Bush bully tactics have dug a hole in regards to the truth. Our Soldiers now tread through this valley without the safe moral high ground they need from the outset to achieve security.

Fortunately their training and individual ethics will help them erect new high ground. They can win the day in time.

For that we are all indebted, Senator Durbin no less than any other. Them no more so than any leaders who placed them to duty's call.

-Chris H

So yes it was important to note the policy endangers our troops.

My tangent on the FBI is something of concenr. Should every law enforcement official not be incensed that the chief enforcement body of our nation allowed wrongdoing?

It's time for the goons to straighten up these White House rogues.

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