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Gabriel_Gale
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I’m not shocked by comparisons to Nazis. After all, they were humans who went down a lot of wrong tracks. I don’t mind when someone points out one of those wrong tracks. What I hate is when comparisons become name calling. The Nazi card is often meant to shut up debate or simply to tar your opponent without any reference to actual facts or logic. The Nazi card is standard for leftist and increasingly Democrats (remember Bush is Hitler at MoveOn.org).
Now, if Durbin really thinks that Gitmo is Auschwitz, does he think that Mamdouh Mahmud Salim is Anne Frank?
From NRO
T*here’s a lot I don’t understand about the current hysteria over our prison facility at Guantanamo Bay. At the top of the list is why no one has mentioned Louis Pepe or Mamdouh Mahmud Salim. *
*Salim, a reputed top lieutenant of Osama bin Laden, was being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, a high security federal jail in lower Manhattan. Pepe was a guard there. On November 1, 2000, Salim plunged a sharpened comb into Pepe’s left eye and three inches into his brain. Salim and a compatriot also beat Pepe savagely, in their effort to get the guard’s keys and orchestrate an escape for himself and two fellow terrorists awaiting trial. Believing Pepe was dead, the attackers used his own blood to paint a Christian cross on his torso. Pepe was an experienced correctional officer, a member of the elite MCC Enforcers Disturbance Control, and he weighed in at 300 pounds. He survived the attack with brain damage, crippling disabilities, and an unending stream of surgeries. *
Jonah Goldberg NRO
http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg200506150748.asp
Now, if Durbin really thinks that Gitmo is Auschwitz, does he think that Mamdouh Mahmud Salim is Anne Frank?
From NRO
T*here’s a lot I don’t understand about the current hysteria over our prison facility at Guantanamo Bay. At the top of the list is why no one has mentioned Louis Pepe or Mamdouh Mahmud Salim. *
*Salim, a reputed top lieutenant of Osama bin Laden, was being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, a high security federal jail in lower Manhattan. Pepe was a guard there. On November 1, 2000, Salim plunged a sharpened comb into Pepe’s left eye and three inches into his brain. Salim and a compatriot also beat Pepe savagely, in their effort to get the guard’s keys and orchestrate an escape for himself and two fellow terrorists awaiting trial. Believing Pepe was dead, the attackers used his own blood to paint a Christian cross on his torso. Pepe was an experienced correctional officer, a member of the elite MCC Enforcers Disturbance Control, and he weighed in at 300 pounds. He survived the attack with brain damage, crippling disabilities, and an unending stream of surgeries. *
Jonah Goldberg NRO
http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg200506150748.asp