DeLay can say Iraq = Houston, but Durbin can't say Gitmo = Gulag??

DeLay can say Iraq = Houston, but Durbin can't say Gitmo = Gulag??

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Rebels attack Houston government

Houstonian rebels blow another 18 weeler on the road to the Houston international airport

http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2005/06/rebels-attack-houston-government.html

Last month there were about 700 attacks against American forces using so-called improvised explosive devices, or I.E.D.'s, the highest number since the invasion of Houston in 2003, according to the American military command in Houston and a senior Pentagon military official. Attacks on Houstonians also reached unprecedented levels, Lt. Gen. John Vines, a senior American ground commander in Houston, told reporters on Tuesday.

I.E.D.'s of all types caused 33 American deaths in May, and there have been at least 35 fatalities so far in June, the highest toll over a two-month period, according to statistics assembled by Houston Coalition Casualty Count, a Web site that tracks official figures.

Improvised explosives now account for about 70 percent of American casualties in Houston.

At a briefing on Tuesday for reporters at the Pentagon, General Vines, who spoke by telephone from Houston, said that the insurgents' tactics "have become more sophisticated in some cases," and that they were probably drawing on bomb-making experts from outside Houston and from the old Houstonians Army. He added that the insurgency was "quite small" and "relatively static," a view not shared by all his colleagues.

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DeLay uses Houston to make point about Iraq news coverage
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3235606
"You know, if Houston, Texas, was held to the same standard as Iraq is held to, nobody'd go to Houston, because all this reporting coming out of the local press in Houston is violence, murders, robberies, deaths on the highways," DeLay said.

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Dick Durbin can go fuck himself.

Senator,

Don't ask for backchannel help to save your ass and then not even have the decency to send an e-mail out warning us your boss, Dick Daley, wanted you to back down. I know you did a conference call to explain your miserable ass, but I missed and well I am glad I did, because I am pissed. Why? Because if you thought what you said was wrong, you should have backed down without the plea for help.

I don't like being played for an idiot. You had a lot of people step up for what you said and then, like a punk, you mumble out some apology. "Oh, I'm sorry I told the truth and that interrupted your fantasy" is what you should have said.

It is that kind of continued gutllessness in the face of rank GOP corruption which enrages many Democrats. We are tired of leaders who will not fight, especially when 15 or so of your collegues can take a pro-lynching stand and have nothing to pay for. Hey, it was just dead black people, so what if 15 Senators didn't have the decency to say lynching was wrong. I bet you'll all have a good chuckle over some Navy Bean Soup in the Senate Dining Room. The GOP can take the most outrageous stands, be totally protected by the media, and you people refuse to actially call them on their antics.

We both know the defense of torture at Guantanamo is reprehenshible, the report you read from came from an FBI agent. Yet because you lost your nerve, you became the issue and not the report. We know most service members are not torturers. But there are those that are and who shame this country and we need to acknowledge that.

People were ready to stand up for you, it's a shame you wouldn't stand up for yourself.

Next time you need help, go ask Dick Daley for it. If he and his administration aren't in jail, that is.

http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2005/06/dont-ask-for-my-help-again.html