As an Illinioan I hate to say this but Durbin has single handedly killed the Guantánamo protest movement. The protest's power was the righteous outrage we felt over what was being done in our name. Durbin took the protest's leadership when he expressed that outrage on the floor of the Senate. The speech gathered attention because it was over the top but that is where our level of outrage and action had to be if something was to change.
Durbin has wavered then fully retreated in the face of the Republican spin machine. Making the righteous outrage he expressed originally seem more political then moral. He has painted all Guantánamo protesters with the same brush.
Durbin laid the flag of protest against the Guantánamo prision on the ground. There is no one left to pick it up.
Update [2005-6-23 14:48:58 by goObama]: Except the UN! CNN Story