Dick Durbin

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I am surprised that no one has posted about this, so I will. I will provide links to specifics of his statements, but he compared the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo to what Nazis or Pol Pot would do.

I find this disgusting and reprehensible.

Apparently his words stem from an FBI report of a detainee chained to the floor. Sometimes temperatures in interrogation rooms were cooled to 60 degrees. Or heated over 100. They might be yelled at. They might not get water for a while. Would I want to be treated that way? No. But it is not comparable in any way to starvation or mass executions or death marches or or whatever.

None of these things are against the Geneva convention. I hate to say that, because as ununiformed enemy combatants, the Geneva convention does not apply to them.

They are fed religiously and culturally acceptable food. They are provided religious texts and prayer matts and quiet times for prayer.

Trent Lott was stripped of his leadership position for praising Strom Thurmond. Should not Durbin receive some sort of penalty or censure for his comments? Should not John McCain come forward and explain to him what torture is in a prison camp that deserves comparison to the worst in history?

Dick Durbin is a disgusting individual.