Don’t expect it anytime soon Mike. Tom Lantos had one moment of clarity out of a whole lifetime of confusion.

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President Bush has repeatedly invited representatives of European human rights organizations to visit Gitmo and see the humane treatment for themselves. Few of them have accepted the invite. And there was a story a few years back where a European Human Rights Commission found conditions in the main Paris jail to be absolutely worse.

And just for comparison, I’ve been to Dachau, the first German Concentration Camp. Here’s a photo:

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They weren’t backing bread in those ovens. How many inmates at Gitmo have died? Most of them gain weight.

P.S. I’m still waiting for Lantos to tell us how many of the Code Pink circus freaks he is going to prosecute for disrupting his congressional hearings.

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Still, as I said at my place, the guy shouldn’t be thiking of an ambassadorial slot any lifetime soon.

One of the Dutch noted:

“It was a diplomatically strange situation,” Peters said. “The mere suggestion that the United States could be compared with Nazi Germany is so flawed.”

To which I responded:

Hey, Tom; When even the Red Greens don’t buy the “Bush is Hitler” subtext, maybe it’s time for you to drop it, huh?

Personally, I find the obvious internal fight that was going on inside the man fascinating…. but I can’t help but think that were GWB a Democrat, Lantos would ahve been more forceful yet.

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….But now that radical Islam has found their land…..suddenly, they want to show some courage and stand up for human rights.

I find it exceedingly hypocritical of the Dutch to speak for human rights, when their own Crown Princess Maxima – nee- Zorreguieta – has ties to an oppresive dictatorship.

Maxima’s father, Jorge Horacio Zorreguieta, is the former Minister of Agriculture in Gen. Videla regime in the 1970s, one of the most brutal dictatorships in Latin America.

Oh, yes, the Dutch Government did not utter a peep over the atrocities being reported by Videla’s government. Not in the 70′s and not in 2001 when the Crown Prince announced his engagement to Maxima.

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So Europe took 65 years to forget the Nazi’s and the democrats took 3 days to forget 9-11-01. There is a great difference in brain power or memory retention? In truth the democrats and most people in Europe make all of their decisions based on a wounded ego (guilt,we could have taken care of it in the 90′s) or BDS (he picked up the ball we dropped). I’m not sure they dropped the ball, they threw it down because they were too cowardly to fight.

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Peters said: “We have to close Guantanamo because it symbolizes for me everything that is wrong with this war on terror.”

So administration have to close Gitmo because it symbolizes something unpleasant FOR HIM?

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I acknowledge that Representative Tom Lantos was rightm one democrat right on one issue. Just a stopped watch.

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