Your apology is not enough.
The apathy of the voters of Illinois to elect someone of your caliber to be our representative in Washington D.C. is in itself reprehensible and shameful.
The fact that you made a statement condemning our volunteer Servicemen with no basis in the fact of your accusation is in and of itself an act of Treason Sir.
The fact that one week after making this statement you had the audacity to go before a Congressional Board composed of your peers and argue that Military bases in Illinois should not be closed while demanding the outright closure of the Guantanimo Bay Security Facility, which, in your statement, you made it sound as if you wished to close the whole base, shows just how two faced you can be Sir.
The fact that as a postscript to your apology, a fellow Illinois elected Senator, a Junior Senator, made a condescending follow up is again sickening.
If that is the best you can come up with, Sir, then it is time for you, and all those elected officials who think and feel as you do, to step down.
We are in a war, Sir.
The people whom we are fighting against wish to see everything this Country represents crushed, destroyed and smeared from the records of History.
Those people, our enemy, KILL our citizens, KILL our soldiers, and KILL our allies.
Mr. Durbin, I have never seen a video that has originated from Guantanimo Bay showing American Service Personnel sawing the head off any captive being held there.
Neither have you and you won't.
Not because clandestine operations will cover the whole thing up.
Because it just won't happen, Sir.
I cannot say the same for our enemies.
As a matter of fact, our Government, the one we the People of Illinois elected you to act with as our representatve,
Our Government has seen fit to admit to the world that we, as a people, are not perfect and acts that are reprehensible to other citizens of this planet can and will be performed by citizens of our great Country.
Acts that, most assuredly, are not condoned by the general citizenry.
That is the Beauty and the Curse of a free people, Sir.
A Beauty and Curse that you seem to have forgotten.
We are not forced to tow the line in lockstep with what our Elected Officals may wish us to do, be it good or evil, right or wrong.
We, as a People, have the freedom to make that choice.
We, those same People, have a Government that is big enough to stand up and admit to the world that wrongs have been commited.
Wrongs that are not sanctioned by our government nor by the will of the People as a whole.
Wrongs may be commited in the future, but make no mistake, those wrongs will not be willingly allowed by our Government, nor our People, to approach the level of wrongs perpetrated by our current enemy.
This I firmly believe, Sir.
For you to make a statement comparing our actions at the Guantanimo Bay Detention Center to the policies and actions of former repressive Governments and despots shows just how far gone is your grasp of reality Sir.
The only apology I can accept from you, Sir, is your immediate resignation from Elected Office.
The apathy of the voters of Illinois to elect someone of your caliber to be our representative in Washington D.C. is in itself reprehensible and shameful.
The fact that you made a statement condemning our volunteer Servicemen with no basis in the fact of your accusation is in and of itself an act of Treason Sir.
The fact that one week after making this statement you had the audacity to go before a Congressional Board composed of your peers and argue that Military bases in Illinois should not be closed while demanding the outright closure of the Guantanimo Bay Security Facility, which, in your statement, you made it sound as if you wished to close the whole base, shows just how two faced you can be Sir.
The fact that as a postscript to your apology, a fellow Illinois elected Senator, a Junior Senator, made a condescending follow up is again sickening.
If that is the best you can come up with, Sir, then it is time for you, and all those elected officials who think and feel as you do, to step down.
We are in a war, Sir.
The people whom we are fighting against wish to see everything this Country represents crushed, destroyed and smeared from the records of History.
Those people, our enemy, KILL our citizens, KILL our soldiers, and KILL our allies.
Mr. Durbin, I have never seen a video that has originated from Guantanimo Bay showing American Service Personnel sawing the head off any captive being held there.
Neither have you and you won't.
Not because clandestine operations will cover the whole thing up.
Because it just won't happen, Sir.
I cannot say the same for our enemies.
As a matter of fact, our Government, the one we the People of Illinois elected you to act with as our representatve,
Our Government has seen fit to admit to the world that we, as a people, are not perfect and acts that are reprehensible to other citizens of this planet can and will be performed by citizens of our great Country.
Acts that, most assuredly, are not condoned by the general citizenry.
That is the Beauty and the Curse of a free people, Sir.
A Beauty and Curse that you seem to have forgotten.
We are not forced to tow the line in lockstep with what our Elected Officals may wish us to do, be it good or evil, right or wrong.
We, as a People, have the freedom to make that choice.
We, those same People, have a Government that is big enough to stand up and admit to the world that wrongs have been commited.
Wrongs that are not sanctioned by our government nor by the will of the People as a whole.
Wrongs may be commited in the future, but make no mistake, those wrongs will not be willingly allowed by our Government, nor our People, to approach the level of wrongs perpetrated by our current enemy.
This I firmly believe, Sir.
For you to make a statement comparing our actions at the Guantanimo Bay Detention Center to the policies and actions of former repressive Governments and despots shows just how far gone is your grasp of reality Sir.
The only apology I can accept from you, Sir, is your immediate resignation from Elected Office.
