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Panda1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 08:29 PM
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13. Exactly
We're supposed to thank them for not killing us while they robbed us blind. The mindset is one of fear and gratitude. Just like the neotheothugs planned, and the MSM propagates.

Durbin told the truth.
He knew what he was saying.
An apology doesn't make the facts go away.
He brought attention to Guantanamo.


http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/062105_ns_durbin.html
Senator Durbin apologizes for Guantanamo remarks
June 21, 2005 — "I'm sorry if anything I've said caused any offense or pain to those who have such bitter memories of the Holocaust, the greatest moral tragedy of our time."
Senator Dick Durbin delivered an emotional apology Tuesday, a week after he compared American interrogators at Guantanamo Bay to Nazis.

Mayor Daley and several Republican groups in Illinois have demanded an apology from Durbin.

Durbin said on the Senate floor late Tuesday afternoon, with tears in his eyes and a voice choked with emotion, that he tried to apologize in a press release last week for a bad choice of words. Prompted by his outrage over the treatment of Muslim prisoners at the hands of U.S. soldiers at Guantanamo Bay,Tuesday's emotional apology, coming hours after a barrage of criticism from fellow Democrat , Mayor Richard Daley. Durbin's comments were recorded by C-Span in a Senate chamber so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
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