I have written as much as I care to about this topic (see here, here, here and here), but before I leave it, I wanted to make one more observation.

I read a comment on someone’s site from a person who basically said that showing pictures of Nazi, Soviet and Cambodian dead did not prove anything. Without pictures or knowing exactly what is going on Gitmo, he says, then the comparison to Nazis et all is a valid argument. Personally, I think he is an idiot, but let me demonstrate why that is so.

How many people are at Gitmo? Let’s say 500. I think there are fewer now, but I like nice round numbers. Now, lets assume that all 500 detainees are rounded up and killed in a gas chamber and their bodies stacked like wood. Would that be bad? Yes, it would be terrible. It would be a crime against humanity and the people who gave the order and the people who obeyed the order should be rounded up, tried and then executed. It would be a sad day in American history.

However, would that THEN justify calling us Nazis or comparing us to Pol-Pot? No. I know I have lost a few of you with that last one, but here is my point. If we killed 500 people, it would be bad, but it would be a fraction of, a fraction of a percent of the number of people that were killed by the regimes that Sen. Durbin is comparing us to. It would also not be the national stated policy of our country to do such things. Plus the perpetrators would be tried and executed.

You cheapen the lives of the victims of those regimes when you compare what we are doing to what happened to them. Even IF we rounded up and killed all 500 of them.

It is time for some perspective and to stop cheapening the lives and memories of REAL atrocities.