Durbin....Dick!

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Senator Dick Durbin (D) Illinois

Yes, Dick Durbin finally caved and offered his Mea Culpa this evening, to the simultaneous delight and dismay of his spineless cohorts up in D.C. (during the dinner hour, so as to minimize the live facetime during the news cycle.)

Mr. Durbin, as you may know, compared the treatment of terrorist detainees in Guantanamo Bay with the treatment meted out by the Nazis in WWII, Soviets in their Gulags, & Pol Pot's buddies in the Killing Fields during Vietnam.....hoping, obviously, to re-ignite the imaginary righteous indignation of his more widely recognized colleagues on Capitol Hill..and to move the peanut forward in the never ending Bush Bashing carnival that has become the Democratic Party of the 21st Century.

Illinois Senator Durbin, the opposition party's Number Two,(draw your own conclusions), recoginized after a week of his half-hearted explanations of what he meant by his comments....(and it's possible that he thought he might get to occupy the rare air of those higher on the socio-political foodchain, like KKK Kleagle Bob Byrd or even Ted "Gin Blossoms" Kennedy) caved like a house of cards, as he should have, when held to account for his reckless, and borderline treasonous indictments of our military personnel a week ago.

Even Chicago Mayor Dick Dailey (again, draw your own conclusions) joined the chorus of those admonishing Durbin for his loose lipped cacophony of hatred of anything regarding forward motion, decision making, balls, or just plain common sense regarding our side's (Read: AMERICA) actions in the war on Terrorism.

How about doing the right thing Dick?

Did your father, uncle, or brother serve in a foreign conflict? They'd be happy to remind you that any time, any place, war is an extremely dirty business....and not subject to the parameters of parliamentary procedure, or some vague interpretation of what you & your colleagues loosely refer to as "international law".

OK, did anyone you know serve in a war overseas where the greater good took precedent of over the obvious desire to keep things together without having to launch an RPG or a 40mm Howitzer?

Do you feel the same way about our courageous grandfathers, uncles and nameless heroes that stormed the beach at Normandy, or continue to stand on the wall in Seoul, Heidelberg, or Croatia in the name of decency and security for all races, colors, creeds, and religions?

How about this, Dick....have you ever considered that you are blessed...(yes blessed...by God...GOD....our Creator...or is that another alien mindset for you) to live in a country that enjoys the freedoms you & Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden and Presidential wannabe John Kerry take for granted, to understand that it took better men than you to make these hard decisions? Or that it may require intestinal fortitude that you'll never understand to take the longview and risk pissing off the our supposed socialist "allies" (ne: French, Canadian, & even German), in order to end the oppression...to end the murdering....and to contain the insanity of the terrorist threat in a place where your children may not have to witness the systematic dismemberment of common decency..let alone the bodies of those courageous people who dare to call a spade a spade.

Maybe you're banking that this will just be an unpleasant memory when the time comes to fly around on the taxpayer nickel come campaign season, collecting accolades for your imaginary service and your half baked idealistic bent.

I'll go ahead and lay odds that you & your cronies will be swilling your Bollinger and Lagavulin when Schroeder, Chirac..and old What's His Name in Ottawa get their walking papers as their adoring electorates send them packing on election day. By the way...maybe you can use that experience to tighten up on your verbage for your own concession speech when your number comes up in the next election cycle.

And while you & your friends will likely hope that your metaphoric trip to the media woodshed will be forgotten by the mid-terms of 2006....I can assure you Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois....

It will not.

For Shame, Senator Durbin....For Shame.

John Barlett is a Media consultant in Wellington, Florida and can be reached at jbarlett@bellsouth.net 561-313-9921