How the Hell did this go from a thread about GITMO to a thread about how cold it is in Friggin' Canada?
Canada is ****ing COLD, mother****er! I lived in Toronto for almost 3 months in the late winter/early spring and I almost lost my balls to frostbite.
As for the article that Stonecutter posted, it was a heroic attempt at turning Durbin's offensive and rediculous rhetoric back at the Republicans, but it fails on shallow logical analysis. The fact is that if Durbin didn't make such rediculous claims there wouldn't be anything for the Republicans to rightfully complain about. The Republican party has been demonized by the Democrats for years, with Howard Dean, the head of the DNC, even calling Republicans "EVIL". Please excuse the Republican party if they wish to defend themselves against such assinine and childish insults.
The fact is that the Democrats are trying to slander the Republicans by any means necessary, and they are failing miserably, namely because they are guilty of such inflammatory and hyperbolic exaggerations. Mr. Hinz attempts in vain to dismiss Durbin'sna comments as mere "hyperbole" and then has the balls to say "name me a politician anywhere in
Washington these days who doesn't use strong words".
Mr Hinz, we both know these are more than strong words. Durbin attempted to misinform the public by comparing legal interrogation tactics, even under the geneva convention which we are under no obligation to follow with illegal combatants, with murder factories in Cambodia, the USSR and Nazi Germany. But more importantly he was making an implied comparison of their leaders. In essence Durbin was saying that President Bush is just as guilty of human rights violations as Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Pol Pot. This is slander in its basest form and would be considered sheer lunacy if he actually made the direct comparison.
The scariest part about this entire pseudo-scandal is that it exposes how desperate and power hungry the democratic party really is, Durbin and Hinz included: They are willing to encourage the enemy and endanger American civilian and military lives by creating a scandal around GITMO and using that to smear President Bushg and Republican party for the next election. It is a shamful, desperate and in the end self-destructive plan. Exactly what the democrats have turned into under the leadership of those like Dean and Durbin.
Personally, I hope they keep going the way they are going. They'll keep on alienating themselves from the mainstream and come the next election the Republicans will win by even more votes. But hey, Dean and Durbin will still have their little positions of power based on propoganda and scandal, rather than actually trying to do anything or work with anyone they don't agree with.