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“Babykiller” Redux

I started the day with the news that Sen. Dick Durbin thinks that US soldiers and our Government officials are the equivalent of the Nazis.

At first I thought, “Well there you go, the final piece of confirming evidence that the left in this country has lost. Once you start comparing what we are doing to that of the Nazis, it means they’ve clearly run out of arguments and are in full retreat”.

As the day wore on, I began to realize that this was about something more. Sen. Durbin didn’t just agree with Amnesty International, he raised the stakes significantly from what they had said.

Allow me to illustrate:

Remember the phrase “ Of course we support the troops”. You should, because every time someone from the left who didn’t support the troops opened their mouths they had to say that first or they would get a pitchfork run through their chest by the rest of us.

Now, Let’s say we take Dick Durbin at his word; that Guantanamo really is exactly like a Nazi concentration camp, a Gestapo headquarters or a soviet gulag.

So, “Dick”, if that is the case, can you really say that you “support the troops” even when they are – as you say – “Nazi like”?

And if you don’t support them, are you now calling for ‘war crimes trials’ against the troops that man the base at Guantanamo? Are you now calling for ‘war crimes trials’ for Secretary of Defense?

I mean I just want to be sure, because as you say "you support the troops" which seems contradictory with this last statement. You made a pretty harsh statement there “Dick”, I just want to see if you will back it up. You said in your pretty little speech that detainees who have the air conditioning left on too long or not at all is the exact moral equivalent of this:

Nazi troops interrogating Russian "detainees" Circa 1941.

If you really believe that Senator then you need to say so, because as far as I can tell, it now seems that in your rotted little mind, “Guantanamo” is the Cuban word for “Lidice”. That’s ok, because in my rotted little mind, “Senator” now means the same as “jackass”, so I suppose were even.

Now, I don’t want to spend this piece just “jumping on Senator Durbin”, that would be all too easy.

The real issue here is “why”.

Why is guantanamo even an issue? Why is this 24x 7 x 365 “atrocity watch” even going on? Does anything that has ever been put forth so far rise to the occasion to even begin to acquire the description of “ Nazi like”?

Come on now, does it? Of course not.

The reason why Sen. Durbin, Leahy, Kennedy and Amnesty International have all decided “Guantanmo has got to go” hasn’t anything at all to do with detainees or their legal state, or our place in the world of Human Rights.

It has to do with you. You see, its easy to say you ‘ support the troops’ when you think of them as liberators and warriors out killing terrorists and keeping you safe and and the world free from harm. Its not so easy to “support the troops” when you think they are uni-browed goons and babykillers who are out gleefully “torturing innocents”. That’s what they want you to think, that’s what this is all about, it a full court press to change the narrative of the war from one of voting and freedom to one of the oppression of innocents and “torture”.

Oh you say you supported the president when you saw all those people voting, but lets see how you support the war when its presented as “Cool Hand Luke meets the Birdman of Alcatraz on the set of OZ”.

This effort to “close Guantanamo” that is underway right now is about separating your hearts and minds from our troops, it has nothing to do with “Human Rights”. It has everything to do with making it socially unacceptable to wear those “I support the troops” ribbons on your cars. you know, the ones the leftists hate with a passion.

The reason the leftist in the 1960s called our troops “babykillers” was as much about trying to lower the morale of the troops as it was making the people who actually did support the troops into 'social pariahs' and thus lowering the effectiveness of our military. They couldnt beat us on the battlefield, so they beat us at home.

The left is out to lower your morale. The left is out to weaken this country and strengthen its enemies. The left is not on your side; the left is on their side. They are losing this war, this is their only chance to change a defeat into a victory, and they are banking on you to give it them.

Please understand that for all the caterwauling over “closing Guantanamo” not one of the 'esteemed senators' have said what the replacement should be or how it should be different than what is already in place. If they are proposing a general amnesty, then they should say so, if they are proposing putting the detainees somehwere else they should say where. However, I have bad news for them, there isnt anywhere that will be as perfect as Guantanamo. Thats why we used it in the first place.

This is not about Guantanamo and the state of the detainees and the respect for "human rights" or Americas image in the world, its about you.

This is a war of information and morale. The blogosphere has helped equalize the ‘information war’, but the 'morale war' is up to you.

And try to remember that in the ‘war on terror’, you are the prime target on the battlefield.

Oh and if you get the “Do you support our torture in Guantanamo” from people on left, just answer them the way I do:

“I’ll put our treatment of our detainees up against any Al-queda camp. Our camps have thousands of visits from members of media, the red cross, access to lawyers and regular food and to date there has not been a single beheading, on camera or off. Al-queda cant begin to match that record”.

UPDATE: Captain Ed and I both seem to be on the same freqency.

Posted @ June 15, 2005 11:36 PM | Current Affairs

Ah Senator Richard Durbin. It's days like these that I truly despise having to share a name with him.

Posted by: Whelk at June 16, 2005 07:04 AM

hell, it's days like this that i truly despise having to share a country with him. or his cronies. gitmo would be a different place indeed if we utilized the "fair for you, fair for me" paradyme. lop off a few right hands, a few heads, video and show to the world. now that would be "nazi like". fattening the "detainees" up, running a sort of "club gitmo" for those wallas is a whole more like "Hogan's Heros" than Treblinka. the other assertion that gitmo is a gulag brings to mind "a day in the life of ivan enisovich". i can not fathom how even the most partisan pol could make that comparison.
i think you are probably right in your analysis. i know it's niave of me to think that the folks that run the various political parties do so out of a commitment to serve the public, but dayam. the current crop seem hellbent to topple the government at any and all expense. dissent is one thing. what we are seeing now is something entirely different. the attainment of power at all costs usually costs US not them.

Posted by: bothenook at June 16, 2005 07:53 AM

VF,

Here’s what needs to happen. Senator Durbin’s home and the homes of his adult children need to be raided. He, his wife, his children, and his grandchildren need to be physically removed from their homes and tossed into a small room in an empty, dark, filthy warehouse. All family members should then be separated. Each time the good senator open’s his mouth, he should be given an electric shock. He then should be questioned. When his answer is not satisfactory, one of the grandchildren should be taken and walked past the senator’s cell, then out of sight. Gun fire is then heard.

At that point, after the senator has clearly soiled himself, the lights come on, a band plays, the cameras roll, and the family shouts SURPRISE! We just wanted to give you a little Nazi history lesson.

Posted by: Ray-Ray at June 17, 2005 08:41 AM

I just think of the Democratic Party as the party of death.

They apparently do not care how high the pile of human skulls is as long as they are firmly seated on top.

Posted by: Leslie Bates at June 17, 2005 09:33 PM