About 9 million persons, including 6 million Jews, died in Hitler's death camps, 2.7 million persons died in Stalin's gulags and 1.7 million Cambodians died in Pol Pot's scourge of his country.


No prisoners have died at Guantanamo, and the Pentagon has acknowledged five instances of abuse or irreverent handling of the Koran, the holy book of Muslims.

But Illinois Democrat U.S. Senator Dick Durbin said, "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."

Dick Durbin has been a tireless critic of our military in Iraq and the Troops who handle the POW's at Guantanamo Bay. Durbin and Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy have blasted President Bush for invading Iraq. Durbin has not commented on the Chappaquiddick Incident where Senator Kennedy never faced charges for driving his car into Chappaquiddick , Killing his brother Robert Kenendy's former Assistant and leaving the car and the body of Mary Jo Kopechnie under water while checking in at a hotel and not reporting the accident until the next day.

These remarks come after a Republican Senate finally voted to pass an anti lynching bill. Democrats had filibustered an anti lynching bill for over 50 years while the Democrats controlled the Senate. West Virginia Democrat Senator Robert Byrd who has been called the conscience of the Senate by Democrats did not support the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Democratic Party Senator Byrd was an active recruiter for the Klu Klux Klan and probably recruited KKK members who committed dastardly acting including burning crosses on lawn in Jewish neighborhoods
and maybe worse.

There is a serious history of anti-semitism here and now these remarks by Illinois Democratic Party’s senior Senator diminish the suffering of Jews in Nazi Concentration camps. is Durbin saying that troops are killing POW's? Is The Illinois Senior Senator saying that Jews were not tortured , killed, gassed, beaten, made into lampshades, and experimented on by Nazi's. These comments by Dick Durbin seriously diminish the suffering of Jews and others held in Concentration camps.

Presidential Press Secretary Scott McCLELLAN replied to Democratic Party Illinois Senator Dick Durnins Comments:

I think the Senator's remarks are reprehensible. It's a real disservice to our men and women in uniform who adhere to high standards and uphold our values and our laws. To compare the way our military treats detainees with the Soviet gulags, the Nazi concentration camps, and Pol Pot's regime is simply reprehensible. And to suggest that these individuals -- I notice comments were made that -- comparing it to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. To suggest that these enemy combatants who are detained at Guantanamo Bay should be released just is simply beyond belief to me. These are dangerous individuals who were picked up on the battlefield. They were picked up on the battlefield in the fight against American forces. They were picked up on the battlefield because they are individuals who are involved in plots to do harm to the American people and to innocent civilians.

And so I just think those remarks are reprehensible and they are a real disservice to our men and women in uniform. Our men and women in uniform go out of their way to treat detainees humanely, and they go out of their way to hold the values and the laws that we hold so dear in this country. And when you talk about the gulags and the concentration camps in Pol Pot's regime, millions of people, innocent people, were killed by those regimes.

President Bush today was attending a National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast and did not directly comment on Durbins remarks.

These remarks by Dick Durbin and the remarks made recently by Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean
have further alienated the Democratic Party from the mainstream. Howard Dean ignored the fact that President Bush received 40% of the Hispanic vote and called Republicans Rich White People, Dean is the son of the founder of the investment firm, Dean Witter. In recent weeks former Presidential candidate Al Gore has seen his stock in the controversial Canadian Oil Company skyrocket.

A Durbin spokesman said Wednesday that the senator did not plan to apologize for the comments. The senator issued a statement saying it's the administration that should apologize ``for abandoning the Geneva Conventions and authorizing torture techniques that put our troops at risk and make Americans less secure.''