Steve Chapman Iraq isn't Hitler's Third Reich [View All]

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0609030350sep03,1,1178314.column?coll=chi-opinionfront-hed

Among the many innovations generated by the Internet is an axiom called Godwin's Law,which says that given enough time,any online discussion will produce a comparison involving Nazism or Hitler.So common is this phenomenon in cyberspace arguments that it also spawned an informal rule:Whoever first mentions the Nazis loses.

By that standard,the Bush administration is getting trounced in the debate on Iraq.Last Week,Defence Secretary Donald Secretary Donald Rumsfeld went to the American Legion convention and likened critics of our policy to those who discounted the treat posed by Nazism. The threat of "new type of fascism."he said,is just as great as the one posed by Hitler and Mussolini.

President Bush followed with his own address to the Legionaires,asserting that the fighting in Iraq, "Can be as fierce as it was at Omaha Beach or Guadalcanal," while insisting that "victory is as important as it was in those earlier battles."

The last lines of this sums it up for me.
Given the dire prospects in Iraq,its not surprising the Bush and Rumsfeld would rather talk about the past then the present.