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Captain's Quarters' Ed Morrissey notes the presence of prison activity that could be much more easily construed as 'torture', certainly abuse, in Sen. Durbin's own backyard.
We'll start taking Durbin seriously when he calls for the National Guard in Illinois to take over the Cook County Jail and demands a federal investigation of his political ally Michael Sheahan, for years of allegations involving abuses much more profound than anything contained in that silly e-mail Durbin read on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday. Until then, chalk up Durbin's feigned moral outrage to the worst kind of political opportunism.
I'm not sure if it is pure political opportunism - after all, it doesn't really make him look good to most Americans. What it is, certainly, is moral grandstanding, wildly conflating the activities at Gitmo to equvalence with some of the most outrageous acts of man against man in all of history. And the fact that it is done to the detriment of our efforts in the war against terror, and to the benefit of our enemies in their propaganda effort, makes it all the more reprehensible.
UPDATE: More on Durbin.
Scott Johnson at Power Line weighs in
We give Durbin failing grades in attention, conduct, intelligence, knowledge, candor, logic, manners, loyalty and decency. He has put his manifold defects on display before an appreciative worldwide audience.
As the Senate Democrats' whip, his voice is his party's. No Senate Democrat has condemned him, the infantile leftists at the heart of his party support him, and he has given renewed prominence to the malady that should at least for a while be dubbed in his honor Durbin's Disorder.
as does Paul Mirengoff
The big lie is nothing new in politics. Hitler and Stalin were master practicioners. What's unusual about Durbin's lie is that it slanders his own country. Normally that kind of slander is uttered only by revolutionaries seeking the violent overthrow of the government. Yet Durbin purports to be part of a loyal opposition.
What possessed Durbin to do it? How, after harping constantly on the importance of our image to winning the war on terrorism, could he cast the U.S. in such a false light? It's not likely that he intentionally set out to injure his country. Until I hear a better explanation, I'll put it down to a kind of sickness or derangement brought on by hatred -- of President Bush, the military, etc. -- coupled with a very weak immune system (i.e. intellect).
Michelle Malkin rounds up the usual suspects.
UPDATE: Some people can see the amusing side to practically anything, even statements verifying Godwin's law. Iowahawk is one of those people. He located some interesting correspondence in Sen. Durbin's out-basket.
In the dark annals of human evil, history has recorded the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocides, and Stalin's mass starvation program. And now, United Airlines flight 671 from Reagan International to Chicago O'Hare on June 3rd, 2005. I know, because I am a survivor of that dark exemplar of man's cruelty to man.
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