Actually, it was the trifecta of smears for Senator Dick Durbin (D-Il): not just the now usual complaints from the left that Americans are Nazis, but also Communists as well:

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.

We posted some thoughts by Patrick Ruffini and Jim Geraghty yesterday at who actually is arguing from a position of weakness employing this sort of rhetoric.

I wonder how this Gitmo=Gulag silliness is all playing in the Middle East. Perhaps Al Qaeda and their brethren are that much more scared of actually ending up there. Or maybe they more than anybody can see how idiotic complaints such as these are.