Dear Senator Durbin, your comments on the senate floor today causes me to question your knowledge of history.
You said
"When you read some of the graphic descriptions of what has occurred here-I almost hesitate to put them in the RECORD, and yet they have to be added to this debate. Let me read to you what one FBI agent saw. And I quote from his report:
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."
You must be kidding. There is a museum near your offices, it is called the Holocaust Museum. It is located at 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW Washington, DC.
I don't remember seeing the part where the Nazis air conditioned people to death.
I am not Jewish, I did not have any relatives killed in the Nazi concentration camps, the killing fields of Cambodia or the Gulags of the Soviet Union. I am just a citizen who knows partisan rhetoric when I hear it. I cannot imagine the outrage of your constituents you did loose family members in these genocides.
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