Durbin is my senator. During his time in office he's grown from being a cautious follower to a gutsy, inspiring leader, and one of the Senate's most reliable truthtellers. You can tell by the nutwing lie campaign being directed at him.
I posted a comment to Armando's diary about Durbin's Guantanamo statement. The point about what Durbin really said, and how to respond to the attacks keeps being lost, so I'm reposting the comment as a diary:
It's really sad and maddening to see the Dem side buying into the nutwing spin. Durbin did NOT compare Guantanamo to the Nazi deathcamps or anything else. He raised a question.
Here's what Durbin said following the FBI-generated description: "If I read this to you [without telling you what it was about], you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime -- Pol Pot or others -- that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that is not the case. This was the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners."
He is not making an analogy. He is not making a
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