A very poor choice of words

Senator Dick Durbin characterizes his incessant imputation of heinous misconduct to the American military as “a very poor choice of words”: “Sen. Durbin apologizes for Gitmo remarks.” Does he retract his comparison of our soldiers to mass murdering Nazis and Communists? The answer, the Minneapolis Star Tribune will be happy to know, is “no.”

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