Steven Bainbridge busts out the Dick Durbin/Nazis lie.

Seriously, this is getting old:

Come forward a decade and you find Democratic Senator Dick Durbin comparing the conduct of US troops at Guantanamo to Nazis...

For the last time, Durbin did nothing of the kind.

Here is Durbin's statement (I also posted this at Bainbridge's):

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.

To twist Durbin's factual statement, based on an FBI report, into "Durbin called our troops Nazis!" is just crass, Limbaugh-style lying.

Actually, it's even worse. The logical conclusion we can draw, based on the documented abuse at Gitmo and the FBI report Durbin was reading, is that Bainbridge and others think the techniques of the Khmer Rouge are well within America's moral and legal traditions.

And by the way, Mukasey just said:

The Bybee memo is "worse than a sin, it's a mistake," Mukasey said. He referenced the photographs taken by U.S. troops who liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1945 to document the "barbarism" the U.S. opposed. "They didn't do that so we could duplicate what we oppose."

So didn't Mukasey just "compare our troops to Nazis," Stephen?

Notes Andrew:

Is it not clear that Mukasey's and Durbin's point is exactly the same? And do you recall, as I do, the phenomenal blog-storm and Fox News conniption and outrage from every other pro-torture platform on the web? Here's a classic Reynolds-Steyn post ridiculing and scorning those who were concerned about what was going on at Gitmo. Let's see if Reynolds or Steyn will lambaste the incoming attorney-general on the same grounds, shall we? Or will their double standards reveal their partisan hackery again?