sent may 23, 2005 by email
Senator Durbin,
Your statement that the behaviors of the guards at Guantanamo resemble the actions of guards in the Gulag or the Nazi camps was completely correct. It took nearly ten years for the Nazis to move from internment camps with disorganized beatings to the organized torture and death camps for which they are justly infamous. This administration is merely in the early stages. Americans will stop them before they reach the extremes.
The mistreatment of prisoners at Guantanamo and abu Ghraib is counterproductive and un-American. The problem is not that a few rogue elements went beyond guidelines. Like the Nazi guards, the more zealous of the guards are going the direction that their leaders guide them.
This is not a problem of the troops. This is a problem of the leadership, and in particular it is a problem caused by the current political leadership of the U.S.
What you said was not wrong. It was your apology for the statement that was wrong.
Your apology, backing down from a statement that may have been inartfully presented, is what was wrong. You permitted Karl Rove to make his inflammatory statements to the New York Conservative Party.
I have had enough of the lily-livered cowardly Democratic responses to the nasty McCarthyite attacks of the Republicans. Either go after those SOBs for their un-American behavior, or resign and find a real Democrat who will fight for the America we are losing to the conservatives.
Do you get it??
Richard Brewer.
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