Senator Durbin (D) Compares Gitmo to Nazis

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White House calls Gitmo remarks reprehensible

June 16, 2005

BY NEDRA PICKLER ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON-- The White House said a senator's comparison of American interrogators at Guantanamo Bay to Nazis, Soviet gulags and Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot was reprehensible and a disservice to those serving in the military.

White House press secretary Scott McClellan said it is "beyond belief" that Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin would compare treatment of dangerous enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay to the death of millions of innocent people by oppressive regimes.

"Our men and women in uniform go out of their way to treat detainees humanely, and they go out of their way to uphold the values and the laws that we hold so dear in this country," McClellan said.

Source: Chicago Sun-Times

When your party's number two senator begins to compare Gitmo to a freaking Soviet gulag you know you have a problem.

By the way, if you don't know what a gulag was you can read this: "Conditions in the camps were extremely harsh. Prisoners received inadequate food rations and insufficient clothing, which made it difficult to endure the severe weather and the long working hours; sometimes the inmates were physically abused by camp guards. As a result, the death rate from exhaustion and disease in the camps was high."