I haven’t been following the Dickie Durbin controversy, but I’ve been told he’s apologized, with tears and all, for comparing the American interrogators at Gitmo to Nazis and Soviets. Let’s go to the videotape.
More at Yahoo! news.
And here’s a little Dr. Seuss for the senator’s cooked goose.
Update (6/22): From Michelle Malkin’s latest column:
Gitmo-bashers attack the Bush administration’s failure to abide by the Geneva Conventions. But as legal analysts Lee Casey and Darin Bartram told me, “the status hearings are, in fact, fully comparable to the ‘Article V’ hearings required by the Geneva Conventions, in situations where those treaties apply, and are also fully consistent with the Supreme Court’s 2004 decision in the Hamdi v. Rumsfeld case.”
Treating foreign terrorists like American shoplifters — with full access to civilian lawyers, classified intelligence, and all the attendant rights of a normal jury trial — is a surefire recipe for another 9/11. That is why the Bush administration fought so hard to erect an alternative tribunal system — long established in wartime — in the first place.
