Dick Durbin in a speech in Congress said: "On one occasion, the air conditioning had been turned down so far and the temperature was so cold in the room, that the barefooted detainee was shaking with cold. ... On another occasion, the [air conditioner] had been turned off, making the temperature in the unventilated room well over 100 degrees. The detainee was almost unconscious on the floor, with a pile of hair next to him. He had apparently been literally pulling his hair out throughout the night. On another occasion, not only was the temperature unbearably hot, but extremely loud rap music was being played in the room, and had been since the day before, with the detainee chained hand and foot in the fetal position on the tile floor."

"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 happened 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."

It is estimated that nine million people, including six million Jews, died in Hitler's concentration camps; nearly three million people died in Stalin's gulags, and about 2 million Cambodians died at the hand of Pol Pot's regime. Please note that this is a United States Congressman that is making this statement. Also please note that he is a DEMOCRAT. To compare the treatment of prisoners captured and held by the United States military to the atroccities commited by Nazi's, Stalin and Pol Pot- is a liberal lie at its greatest.