The Democrats are really reaching new lows in their unending campaign against President Bush. Even after Dick Durbin was forced into an insincere apology for slandering American troops, they are back at it.

Military investigators found evidence of degrading and abusive treatment by interrogators at the prison for terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee said Wednesday.

Sen. Carl Levin said their investigation, which looked into FBI allegations of abuse of prisoners, shows that the purpose of the abuses recorded by investigators was to gather intelligence - and indicated that the problem was not an isolated one.

"It is clear from the report that detainee mistreatment was not simply the product of a few rogue military police in a night shift," said Levin, D-Michigan.

Yes, that is the purpose - to gather intelligence. If these poor, delicate terrorists weren't incarcerated, gouging out the eyes of guards or throwing their feces at them, they'd be killing as many civilians as they could. So, yes, Carl, we are trying to extract information from them. CNN then makes sure to perpetuate the lie that the Geneva Conventions are even relevant.

Investigators determined that interrogators violated the Geneva Conventions and Army regulations three times.

And what were the supposed "abuses?"

Female interrogators inappropriately touched detainees, including rubbing perfume on one and massaging another's back. Investigators documented that a woman in one case smeared what she described as menstrual blood - it was fake - on a prisoner, but they recommended no further action on the allegation because it happened some time ago.

Many men, such as Saudi princes on vacation, have to pay for female contact. As for the fake blood, well it's better than the real blood of thousands of 9/11 victims.

Interrogators threatened one high-value prisoner by saying they would go after his family. This was in violation of U.S. military law, the investigation found.

A threat? Big deal. And isn't free speech covered by the Constitution anyway? Flag-burning is protected by the First Amendment but you can't threaten terrorists? Please.

Military interrogators impersonated FBI and State Department agents. This practice was stopped after the FBI complained.

The spineless FBI investigaor who complained about Gitmo and the toadies at State should be so fortunate to be confused with an American soldier.

Interrogators improperly used duct tape on a detainee. An FBI agent said a prisoner was bound on the head with duct tape, his mouth covered, because he was chanting verses from the Quran.

Excuse me? Duct tape? This is a federal offense? Carl Levin and Dick Durbin are going to have to shut every frat house in America if this is a human rights violation.

Interrogators used cold, heat, loud music and sleep deprivation on prisoners to break their will to resist interrogation. These techniques were approved at certain times at Guantanamo.

Sure, our soldiers in the desert heat of Iraq or the mountain snows of Afghanistan live uncomfortably, but G-d forbid the poor, delicate terrorists don't have adequate climate control.

When you're done saying "big freakin' deal" about all this, you'll realize that the Democrats are out of their minds and not serious about defeating terrorists. They view attacks on the President, by using the U.S. military as a proxy on which to beat up, as more important than destroying the terrorists who are out to kill us all. It is appalling. They are so consumed with hatred of President Bush that they will do anything to throw barbs at him, including slandering American troops and deliberately harming our reputation. These terrorists are mindless automatons trained only to kill who deserve no creature comforts and, in fact, are treated too well. Carl Levin and his Democratic cronies ought to be ashamed of themselves for acting as defenders of America's mortal enemies. They also ought to quit wondering why they keep losing elections because their anti-Americanism is manifestly clear.

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