Springtime for Dick Durbin

UPDATE:  Michelle Malkin and other bloggers are livid, and I don't blame them.  Durbin's equation of a prisoner urinating his trousers with the systematic imprisonment and murder of 40 million people is shocking and wrong, criminal really.  It cheapens the horrible price that true sufferers of torture have paid at the hands of real tyrants and monsters.

Here are my previous posts regarding the real Gulag and real torture under Saddam Hussein.  And Michelle Malkin has a great roundup of similar writings by other bloggers.

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On the Senate floor yesterday, after reading from a report detailing the treatment of Islamic terrorists being held by the US in Guantanamo, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) had this to say:

If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, 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.

Sigh.  We really, really need a Godwin's law for politics.  You say something this wrong and stupid, and the American people show you the door.  You spend the rest of your life on a little island somewhere with Ferdinand Marcos and Idi Amin.

I guess this is the right time to republish this photo, which is sure to become a cult hit among Democrats:

Feel free to pencil in your own little mustache and swastika armband.

And for a laugh, read Beautiful Atrocities' "Everyone Will Be Hitler" list.

Comments

[Heraldblog]

You didn't tell us why Durbin's remark is stupid. Is it really that self-evident?

[john @ blogenlust]

I think we should tie Durbin up, chain him to the Senate floor, and watch him defecate on himself, all the while blasting Toby Keith in his ear!!! That would really show him, I think. And let's show it on Fox and make it a reality teevee series. We can call it Survivor: Guantanamo, or Extreme Makeover: Abu Ghraib.

And let's not stop at Durbin. We should also chain up that American hating, terrorist wannabe FBI Agent that wrote the report that Durbin directly quoted.

And why stop there? Then we should tie up people like you, hook up a webcam, and watch you defecate yourself while we stand around you saying things like, "You're so lucky you get to crap on yourself," or "Hey, aren't you glad we're not Saddam?"

[Margaret]

We need a laugh out here right about now. I hope you put together a book. Thanks! Margaret