(SNN Skokie) Clearly insane Senator Dick Durbin compared our treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo to the treatment of prisoners in other fascists regimes. Who does this guy think he is to speak about how the government is run (other than the legally elected representative of half of Illinois)?

But rather than to judge this insane, crazy, ignominious, madman ourselves, we will let his words speak for him.

When you read some of the graphic descriptions of what has occurred here -- I almost hesitate to put them in the record, and yet they have to be added to this debate. Let me read to you what one FBI agent saw. And I quote from his report:

"On a couple of occasions, I entered interview rooms to find a detainee chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor, with no chair, food or water. Most times they urinated or defecated on themselves, and had been left there for 18-24 hours or more. On one occasion, the air conditioning had been turned down so far and the temperature was so cold in the room, that the barefooted detainee was shaking with cold....On another occasion, the [air conditioner] had been turned off, making the temperature in the unventilated room well over 100 degrees. The detainee was almost unconscious on the floor, with a pile of hair next to him. He had apparently been literally pulling his hair out throughout the night. On another occasion, not only was the temperature unbearably hot, but extremely loud rap music was being played in the room, and had been since the day before, with the detainee chained hand and foot in the fetal position on the tile floor."

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.

Update 1: Due to complaints, we would like to apologize for our use of the word “other”.

Update 2: Due to complaints, we would like to apologize for using of the word “ignominious”.

posted by NewsBlog 5000  # Saturday, June 18, 2005