The horror of rap music torture continues...

Sen. Durbin has revised and extended his idiotic remarks.

This is what he read on the Senate floor on Tues:

"Among the descriptions, the report noted one case in which a detainee was held in such cold temperatures that he shivered, another in which a prisoner was held in heat passing 100 degrees, one in which prisoners were left in isolation so long they fouled themselves and one where a prisoner was chained to the floor and forced to listen to loud rap music."

And this is what he said about it:

"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," Durbin said.

This is his revised (I bet) and extended remarks later:

"If this indeed occurred, it does not represent American values. It does not represent what our country stands for, it is not the sort of conduct we would ever condone ... and that is the point I was making. Now, sadly, we have a situation here where some in the right-wing media have said that I have been insulting men and women in uniform. Nothing could be further from truth."

Gee, how could "rightwing media" have made that mistake? I mean, when you compare what "Americans have to done to prisoners" to "what must have been done by Nazis." It kind of leads one to believe YOU WERE COMPARING THEM!

Fox News goes on to say:

"Warner, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he had inquired as to whether the FBI's descriptions are true.
"I was trained as a lawyer, many years as a prosecutor dealt with the bureau, have the highest respect. But I do not accept at face value everything they put down on paper until I make certain it can be corroborated and substantiated.
"And for you to come to the floor with just that fragment of a report and then unleash the words 'the Nazis,' unleash the word 'gulag,' unleash 'Pol Pot,' I don't know how many remember that chapter, it seems to me that was a grievous error in judgment and leaves open to the press of the world to take those three extraordinary chapters in world history and try to intertwine it with what has taken place, allegedly, at Guantanamo," Warner said."

This was no error in judgment. It was a well thought out talking point. It was hoped to be taken up by the international press. Because it is more important to people like Durbin, for America to look bad to the world so that Democrats can get back into power, than it its to uphold our values and stand strong in this war.

And that is just the damn truth.