Below is the text my letter to the people representing me in Congress, Senator Lieberman, Senator Dodd, and Representative Shays. I also copied Bill Frist, M.D.

Recently a colleague of yours, and a member of the Democratic Party leadership in the Senate, compared the treatment of illegal combatant terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay Cuba with the atrocities of the Soviet Gulags, Nazi Concentration Camps, and Pol Pot's Killing Fields.

Do you agree that the American Military and the Bush Administration are the moral equivalent of Stalin and the KGB or Pol Pot and the Khmer Ruge?

Do you agree that the actions outlined by Senator Durbin such as the playing of loud music and manipulating the air conditioning to make a prisoner uncomfortable are the moral equivalent of Nazi Germany exterminating six million Jews?

Do you agree with Senator Durbin that such a comparison is not an insult to all who serve in the U.S. Armed Forces and their families, to all who suffered or are connected to the suffering of the world's most barbarically repressive regimes, and to all American's?

If you do not, you should be on the Senate floor or in front of a press microphone at the first possible moment to condemn Senator Durbin's comments in the strongest possible language and demand an apology if not the Senator's resignation.

I would also like to request that you immediately submit to the Senate a resolution censuring Senator Durbin for his comments.

Overwhelmingly anti-American statements such as those made by Senator Durbin cannot be allowed to stand unchallenged. Your failure to do so would be further insult to the people of Connecticut. An insult I and many others will be sure to remind voters of when you next you stand for re-election.

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