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What made Dick Durbin apoligise?
Don Rizzle:
US senator sorry for Nazi remarks
More than 500 prisoners are being held at Guantanamo Bay
A US senator has apologised for comparing US interrogation practices at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba to those under Hitler and Stalin.
Dick Durbin has been criticised by Republicans and some fellow Democrats for last week's comments.
They came after he quoted from an FBI report alleging inmates were chained to the floor without food or water.
He has now offered the Senate his "heartfelt apologies", saying he never meant to offend US troops.
"They're the best. I never, ever intended any disrespect for them," the Illinois senator said.
He also apologised to survivors of the Nazi Holocuast.
"I'm sorry if anything that I said caused any offence or pain to those who have such bitter memories of the Holocaust, the greatest moral tragedy of our time," he said.
Recent critics of the high-security detention centre at Guantanamo include former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, who has called for its closure.
Amnesty International has branded the camp "the gulag of our times".
But US Vice-President Dick Cheney says there are no plans to close the prison, and describes the detainees as "bad people" and "hardcore".
Many of the 500 men held at the camp have been there for three years without trial.
source bbcnews
whats the big fucking deal he spoke his mind about gauntamino, but theres no reason to apoligise! what happenned to freedom of speach in america?
Real American:
Because the idea of comparing Guantanomo to what happened in Russia and Nazy Germany is stupid, retarded, assanine, and outrageous. There were human rights atrocities being coomited in those countries and to say that is what the US military is doing is offensive.
Thirteen:
jumping jacks, lack of sleep and maybe pissing on korans (\=) millions of tortured, gassed, beat and raped people
maybe that's one reason
Don Rizzle:
--- Quote from: CWalker187 on June 22, 2005, 07:23:39 PM ---Because the idea of comparing Guantanomo to what happened in Russia and Nazy Germany is stupid, retarded, assanine, and outrageous. There were human rights atrocities being coomited in those countries and to say that is what the US military is doing is offensive.
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they are similar your patriotism just can't see it
Thirteen:
--- Quote from: Don Rizzle on June 22, 2005, 11:50:56 PM ---
--- Quote from: CWalker187 on June 22, 2005, 07:23:39 PM ---Because the idea of comparing Guantanomo to what happened in Russia and Nazy Germany is stupid, retarded, assanine, and outrageous. There were human rights atrocities being coomited in those countries and to say that is what the US military is doing is offensive.
--- End quote ---
they are similar your patriotism just can't see it
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you're an idiot, you being a jack ass just can't see it
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