“Let’s get real. These people have been locked up for three years— no end in sight and no process to lead us out of there. Guantanamo Bay is causing immeasurable damage to our reputation as a defender of Democracy and a beacon of human rights around the world. I’m proud of what our nation has accomplished. I want us to be that beacon of human rights. But we’re not being it with Guantanamo.”

Durban Defends Guantanamo 'Nazi' Comments
Meanwhile, Dick Durbin, the number 2 Democrat in the Senate is under fire for comments he made earlier this week on the Senate floor blasting the conduct of US forces at Guantanamo. Durbin quoted from an FBI agent’s report describing prisoners being chained to the floor without food or water in extreme temperatures. He said “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.” Republicans have called on Durbin to apologize for the comments but last night Durbin released a statement saying “This administration should apologize to the American people for abandoning the Geneva Conventions and authorizing torture techniques that put our troops at risk and make Americans less secure.”