Rumsfeld: Bush critics similar to Nazi appeasers--Great headline huh?

[Philosoraptor]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003234895_rumsfeld30.html

When we make the Nazi comparison we get trashed and we automatically lose the argument, now they are calling us fascists and nazis, when it is they who wear those labels, and we just have to take it.

Is it getting out of hand yet?

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SALT LAKE CITY — Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld compared critics of the Bush administration to those who sought to appease the Nazis before World War II, warning Tuesday that the United States is confronting "a new type of fascism."

Rumsfeld, speaking before the American Legion convention, delivered some of his most explicit and extended attacks yet on the administration's critics, provoking criticism from furious Democrats who accused him of "campaigning on fear."

By comparing U.S. foreign policy with World War II and the Cold War, Rumsfeld sought to portray skeptics of Bush's foreign policy as being on the wrong side of history. Rumsfeld again ridiculed U.S. officials who, before World War II, wished to negotiate with Adolf Hitler.

"I recount that history because, once again, we face similar challenges in efforts to confront the rising threat of a new type of fascism," Rumsfeld said. "But some seem not to have learned history's lessons."

[babylonsister]

1. As Sen. Reid said, Rummy's just posturing to get the heat off his

utter failures as a SecDef.

[Waya]

2. Smells like desperation........

[izzie]

3. Maybe but it has worked before and the games have started

It is going to be non stop I think and the 'big wigs' have got all the words

[maine_raptor]

4. Rummy is right.....some have not learned history's lessons

More to the point he (and Bush) have not.

Too bad they didn't know the history of Britain's occupation of Iraq in the 1920's.

Too bad they did not know the lessons of counter-insurgency warfare as learned by the French in N.Africa or the US Army in Vietnam (read the book "Fiasco").

Yup, those that forget the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them.

[momster]

8. Or even the lessons

of the Victorian British in Afghanistan when they got torn up by the native population in the 1840's, despite having a major technological edge. The Bushites carry on as if they were the only people in the history of the world to ever try one of these 'bringing enlightenment to the heathen' excursions. Do you suppose it is because history has a definite liberal trend? They're going to try the exact same invasions and political games but it will all turn out differently *this* time because they're 'murkican', I guess. Pity nobody told the people they were invading.

[screembloodymurder]

5. I demand an apology.

The Defense Secretary is out of line. He should resign and apologize to the American people.

[HereSince1628]

6. Oh yeah, those Hitler appeasing bankers who wanted a dictator

rather than FDR. I remember them, I think one of them has a grandson serving in the Whitehouse.

[Broadslidin]

7. It Is Easy To Visualize, War Secretary Rumsfeld in a Nazi SS Uniform....!

:yoiks:

[Hubert Flottz]

9. Be careful you'll upset the Freeper Hordes out there!

You must NEVER disagree with der Fuhrer!