You did cross the line jerk!
This is an apoligy? Another 1/2 assed retraction of things he met in his heart, senator Durbin, joins hanoijane fonda and hanoi john kerry as betrayers of America. Why do democrats defend this moron?
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Under fire from Republicans and some fellow Democrats, Sen. Dick Durbin apologized Tuesday for comparing U.S. interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp to Nazis and other infamous figures.
"Some may believe that my remarks crossed the line," the llinois Democrat said. "To them I extend my heartfelt apologies."
His voice quaking and tears welling in his eyes, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate also apologized to any soldiers who felt insulted by his remarks. "They're the best. I never, ever intended any disrespect for them," he said.
The apology came a week after Durbin, the Senate minority whip, quoted from an FBI agent's report describing detainees at the naval base in a U.S.-controlled portion of Cuba as being chained to the floor without food or water in extreme temperatures.
"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," the senator said June 14.
The comment created an uproar on the Internet and on talk radio, but Durbin refused to apologize. Democrats joined Republicans in chastising Durbin not only for his initial remarks but for insisting that the White House apologize for its policies.
On Tuesday, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, a fellow Democrat, added his voice to the criticism, saying, "I think it's a disgrace to say that any man or woman in the military would act like that."
Immediately after the apology, Sen. John McCain, an Arizona Republican and former prisoner of war, spoke in Durbin's defense. "All of us, I believe, who have had the opportunity to serve in public life from time to time have said things that we deeply regret. I know that I have. I would like to say that the senator from Illinois, he did the right thing, the courageous thing, and I believe we can put this issue behind us."
You are a better man than I Senator McCain, I do not and will not forgive,a leader of the country that by his words gives aid and comfort to the enemy, and supplies them with a propaganda tool.