Gitmo called death camp

IL Senator Durbin is being raked over the coals.

In a speech on the Senate floor late Tuesday, Minority Whip Richard J. Durbin, Illinois Democrat, castigated the American military's actions by reading an e-mail from an FBI agent.
After reading the e-mail, Mr. 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."
Mr. Durbin also likened the treatment of terror suspects at the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's decision to authorize the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

The airwaves are crazy with this story. They talk about how great we are treating everyone compared to the "terrorists" who have beheaded their prisoners.

The point is however that the actions of the "terrorists" are not a state-sanctioned action. It is not in accord with decency or convention. Our actions and our motives are supposed to be for a greater good. If that is the case let us conduct ourselves that way.

I hope Durbin sticks to his comments and statements. We must face our own errors and mistakes - air our dirty laundry - clean up our mistakes and make sure they never happen again.