The Knucklehead of the Day Award

Today's winner is Democratic Illinois Senator and Senator Minority Whip Richard Durbin. Yesterday on the Senate Floor he compared the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo to Nazi Prison Camps, Soviet Gulags and Pol Pot of the Khemer Rogue.

These are Senator Durbin's exact words-

On one occasion, the air conditioning had been turned down so far and the temperature was so cold in the room, that the barefooted detainee was shaking with cold. ... On another occasion, the [air conditioner] had been turned off, making the temperature in the unventilated room well over 100 degrees. The detainee was almost unconscious on the floor, with a pile of hair next to him. He had apparently been literally pulling his hair out throughout the night. On another occasion, not only was the temperature unbearably hot, but extremely loud rap music was being played in the room, and had been since the day before, with the detainee chained hand and foot in the fetal position on the tile floor.
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. Sadly, that is not the case. This was the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners.

With no due respect senator, you are demagogue who feels does your constituents and this country a terrible disservice when you compare our brave troops to mass murders. Shame on you and the rest of the Democrats who feel hysterical rhetoric like this is justified because you don't agree with policies of the Bush Administration. You are truly the knucklehead of the day.