Saving me the effort

I was going to write something in response to Illinois Senator Dick Durbin's recent comments on the Senate floor about the treatment of terrorist prisoners at Guantanamo Bay but, thanks to Captain Ed, I don't have to.

Durbin, who should know better, has the nerve to compare American soldiers to Nazis and Gitmo to the extermination camps they ran. If Durbin can't recall that the Nazis exterminated millions of people, deliberately, in those camps, I'm certain that Holocaust survivors in Illinois and elsewhere can remind him of that fact. If the Senator doesn't know about the estimated 2 million people who died in the gulag system, a system that was used primarily on internal political dissidents to suppress opposition to Stalin, then he should read his Solzhenitsyn. If he thinks that American soldiers operate on the same basis as Cambodia and the killing fields, he's out of his mind.

Via the ever-irascible Kim du Toit.