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Dick Durbin: “I'm sorry if anything that I said caused any offense or pain.”

On the recordJune 21, 2005
I'm sorry if anything that I said caused any offense or pain.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Senator Durbin apologizes for his remarks comparing Guantanamo prisoners' treatment to that of inmates in Soviet and Nazi prisons.

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