scur⋅ril⋅ous
–adjective
1.
grossly or obscenely abusive: a scurrilous attack on the mayor.
2.
scoun⋅drel
noun
1.
an unprincipled, dishonorable person; villain.
2.
On “Meet the Press” on Sunday, May 24, 2009, U. S. Senator Richard Durbin (see three photos above), was asked by the host about former Vice president Dick Cheney’s statement: “I think the president will find, upon reflection, that to bring the worst of the worst terrorists inside the United States would be cause for great danger and regret in the years to come.”
Durbin replied:
“Now, let me just say this, I know what Vice President Cheney said. But if you want an insight into his analysis of intelligence and national security, you should always remember four words: weapons of mass destruction. That was a bogus fear tactic used by Vice President Cheney years ago which led us into a war that has cost us 4,283 American lives, we should recall on this Memorial Day weekend, added a trillion dollars to the national debt and took the eye off of capturing Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda.”
Durbin forgot to explain how Cheney convinced the Intelligence Services in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and this country that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction, or how he convinced Colin Powell (with whom he was seldom in agreement) to make the case before the United Nations.
There are, of course, too many examples of scurrilous attacks by this scoundrel to document in one post, but we must never forget his comments about our troops after the phony Left-driven scandal about the terrorists detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. Here is a Durbin quote from the Washington Post story recounting his outrageous comments about men and women to whom he owes a debt that will never be repaid. He is talking about an FBI agent's report of "abuses" at Guantanamo. (I have no idea why the FBI was conducting an investigation at Guantanamo, but I would like to know more about the qualifications of the agent who wrote the report.) "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," he said, "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."
But here, you can watch the rogue in action on the Senate floor.
