The real problem: Newt "Contract on America" Gingrich seems to think the real problem at Guantanamo isn't that the US is currently holding more than 500 people without charge in a facility that, were it housed on American soil rather than the land of our grave enemy Fidel, would be illegal. Nor does he think US personnel torturing detainees and pissing on Islamic holy books just to get a rise out of them part of the problem, nor the fact that only four of the hundreds held in Gitmo since its opening in January 2002 have been charged with any crime.

No, the problem is Dick Durbin.

The right's rhetoric is so tired. Sen. Durbin "dishonored the United States and the entire U.S. Senate" by likening conditions at Gitmo to those of facilities run by the Gestapo. While the Democrats are seemingly retarded to keep using language that'll derail the debate from fact to enraged discussions about lexicon, it's also bizarre that Republicans think that a few words uttered by Durbin are somehow more "despicable" than the conditions Durbin was describing. The senator's words, sez Newt, "endanger the lives of our young men and women in the military because it arms every radical Islamist with the official-record words of a Senate leader to justify their war of terror against civilized people everywhere.” Right, Newt. Had there been no abuse at Guantanamo, no indefinite detention, no peeing, then perhaps Durbin wouldn't have had to go on the official record at all.