I have read most of the comments made concerning the Dick Durbin speech. The far left wants to describe the expressed outrage of American citizens as over the top, indicative of an over reaction to ligitimate "torture by our military",an example of the neo-cons, a tempest in a tea cup, making a mountain out of an ant hill, etc...EXCUSE AFTER EXCUSE. Is it irrevelent that Al-Jazerra has reported Durbin's words on the Senate floor as an indictment against our soldiers? Our soldiers are degraded and placed in even more danger because of this traitor Durbin. Whatever excuses you on the Left; you in the Democratic party who voice no opposition to Durbin's remarks; and you who are ignorant of world history and therefore lack the ability to discern the obvious lies of Durbin, the American citizens of this nation will send a sure and clear message in November 2006. We will stand up and throw as many [DELETED] Democrats out of office as possible. The Democratic party will become even more marginalized. Thank you to Howard Dean, Harry Reid, and finally Dick Durbin for showing all of America the real Democratic party and its agenda.

We can see the claudia wilson is just another [DELETED]. Tell us, claudia, is torture wrong only if the other side does it? Can you think of any principles whatsoever that would constrain American behavior? I mean, in WW2 the U.S. Marine Corps had a policy and practice of treating Japanese POWs with dignity and respect. These were the Japanese who inflicted grotesque atrocities on our POWs and on civilian populations, but some how the USMC didn't need to torture them and make them play kinky sex games for the cameras.

Funny, isn't it, that the U.S. won that war.

Oh, and by the way: During the war, an Italian POW was murdered by guards in Seattle. One POW. The national outcry against the murder was so loud that FDR himself had to get involved. Now, this didn't go very well because the blame got pinned on the wrong guard, but the point remains the same: There was a time when Americans thought we were better than the animals would would torture people.

I guess the [DELETED] of today are perfectly o.k. with America as torturer. How very, very sad.

I'm sorry. Did I miss the kinky sex games on tape at guantanamo? Uhhh...no. All I heard from Durbin was some prisoners were too hot and some too cold and some were even forced to listen to rap music.

I am almost sure Durbin would have mentioned kinky sex.

Get your facts straight before you go mouthing off your ignorance.

Let's see if Greyhawk will censor me for calling people rightwingsparkles instead of, well, you know that word that just drives him into a tizzy. I wonder if the 'hawk wasn't a hall monitor in a previous life.

Anyway, we don't know what was on tape at Gitmo, because the military destroyed the tapes of interrogation sessions once their presence became known. They're pretty good at the ol' coverup game in the Bush administration. I figure the Taguba report about Abu Ghraib got done only because they knew the cat was out of the bag anyway.

But if they were raping people at Abu Ghraib, including homosexual rape, there's no reason to think they weren't doing it at Gitmo. Funny how the rightwingsparkles are way against gays in the military and homosexuality in general -- unless it's rape and unless our heterosexual troops are using foreign objects to do it to the enemy.

The Republicans -- who Old Soldier informs us comprise more than 80% of the military -- aren't moral relativists, are they? Noooooooooooooo.