"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 been done 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," added the No. 2 Senate Democrat. "This was the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners."

Durbin's comments outraged radio host Rush Limbaugh, who was one of the the first, along with Laura Ingraham, to broadcast the Illinois Democrat's remarks.

"Senator, I'm embarrassed for you," Limbaugh told his audience. "I'm embarrassed that you are an American. I'm embarrassed that you are a United States senator. This is just over the top for you to draw this analogy."

Limbaugh noted that the heat endured by detainees at Guantanamo is actually less extreme than conditions faced by U.S. troops in Iraq.

"In Iraq right now where our troops are wearing all that body armor, it's 130 degrees, Senator. It's 130 degrees in Iraq! It's 130 degrees around the country where a lot of our troops are working. It's freezing in parts of the world where our troops are working. It's hotter in Iraq than it is in a cell at Gitmo, where we have terrorists who wants to blow up Americans that we're trying to get information from."

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