He Doth Compare Too Much
The US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, said yesterday that the US could not afford to wait for conclusive proof of Saddam Hussein's weapons programmes before it attacked Iraq, and he equated the reluctance of America's allies to get involved with the appeasement of Nazi Germany.
The Guardian, 8/21/02
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is comparing Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to Adolf Hitler in the final days of Nazi Germany.
"Like Hitler in his bunker, this violent extremist, failing to advance his political objectives, now appears committed to destroying everything and everyone around him," Rumsfeld said.
AP, 5/26/05
"Adolf Hitler wrote things and people didn’t believe it. Here you have a person from an important country, a big country, with an intelligent and educated population that’s acquiring nuclear weapons, seems to be on a path to do that saying those things."
Donald Rumsfeld on Iran President Ahmadinejad, Fox News, 1/18/06
Rumsfeld...likened al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin while urging Americans not to give in on the battle of wills that could stretch for years.
WaPo, 2/3/06
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld likened Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to Adolf Hitler, reflecting continuing tension in relations between the United States and the Latin American government.
“I mean, we’ve got Chavez in Venezuela with a lot of oil money,” Rumsfeld added. “He’s a person who was elected legally — just as Adolf Hitler was elected legally — and then consolidated power and now is, of course, working closely with Fidel Castro and Mr. Morales and others.”
AP, 2/3/06
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is warning that Western countries must increase their defense budgets in order to prevent the rise of a "global extremist Islamic empire" that could be as deadly as Hitler's Third Reich.
Newsmax, 2/6/06
"Turning our backs on postwar Iraq today would be the modern equivalent of handing postwar Germany back to the Nazis."
Donald Rumsfeld, WaPo, 3/19/06
During the past few years in the U.S., we've witnessed state-sanctioned torture, extralegal domestic surveillance, a preemptive war based on false pretenses, and a party-above-nation cult of personality. Those who have noted the lessons learned from 1930's Germany have been dismissed as shrill or loony. So what do Rumsfeld's frequent and increasing use of Hitler analogies betray about him---his veracity, his character, his motives?
The Guardian, 8/21/02
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is comparing Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to Adolf Hitler in the final days of Nazi Germany.
"Like Hitler in his bunker, this violent extremist, failing to advance his political objectives, now appears committed to destroying everything and everyone around him," Rumsfeld said.
AP, 5/26/05
"Adolf Hitler wrote things and people didn’t believe it. Here you have a person from an important country, a big country, with an intelligent and educated population that’s acquiring nuclear weapons, seems to be on a path to do that saying those things."
Donald Rumsfeld on Iran President Ahmadinejad, Fox News, 1/18/06
Rumsfeld...likened al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin while urging Americans not to give in on the battle of wills that could stretch for years.
WaPo, 2/3/06
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld likened Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to Adolf Hitler, reflecting continuing tension in relations between the United States and the Latin American government.
“I mean, we’ve got Chavez in Venezuela with a lot of oil money,” Rumsfeld added. “He’s a person who was elected legally — just as Adolf Hitler was elected legally — and then consolidated power and now is, of course, working closely with Fidel Castro and Mr. Morales and others.”
AP, 2/3/06
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is warning that Western countries must increase their defense budgets in order to prevent the rise of a "global extremist Islamic empire" that could be as deadly as Hitler's Third Reich.
Newsmax, 2/6/06
"Turning our backs on postwar Iraq today would be the modern equivalent of handing postwar Germany back to the Nazis."
Donald Rumsfeld, WaPo, 3/19/06
During the past few years in the U.S., we've witnessed state-sanctioned torture, extralegal domestic surveillance, a preemptive war based on false pretenses, and a party-above-nation cult of personality. Those who have noted the lessons learned from 1930's Germany have been dismissed as shrill or loony. So what do Rumsfeld's frequent and increasing use of Hitler analogies betray about him---his veracity, his character, his motives?
posted by The Cunning Realist at Sunday, March 19, 2006
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Right from the beginning, I have always said that the Bush Administration [sic] can best be described with that Abraham Maslow quote: "People who are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail."
Describes their energy policy: the "Alternative" to Oil is... More Oil! (...sorry, stole that joke from Fafblog.)
It describes their fixation on deregulation: only business can regulate business, because there is supposedly nothing that business cannot do better than the government. All that social theory stuff and "tragedy of the commons" is for wussies; we're businessmen.
And here, it describes their war strategies. They don't know how to fight any other war than WWII. (Because Iraq is damn well not going to be like Vietnam, that's the one thing they're sure of.) They can't conceive of any opponent who doesn't resemble Nazi Germany. "Man, if we had had these nifty daisy-cutters or fuel-air bombs back in '49, two wings of bombers coulda beat the hell outta those Ratzis!" The Rumsfeld Doctrine in a nutshell.
There's something to be said for learning from history, but these people are trapped in history, and can't learn from the present.
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Rumsfeld said “five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn’t going to last any longer than that.”
I'm afraid he is one crazy dude; not in his right mind. He babbles and questions why we aren't torturing more. The man is over 70, are we sure dementia hasn't started, or has he always been this diabolical?
"Hagel: Iraq War Has Helped ‘Bankrupt This Country,’ Made Middle East More Unstable"
Good filtering there, TCR. You da man.
And look at the way these bastards haughtily denigrate any opponent who dares breathe der Führer's name.
"You were always on my mind, you were always on my mind..."
So what do Rumsfeld's frequent and increasing use of Hitler analogies betray about him---his veracity, his character, his motives?
Simply, like we did with the Germans, Rumsfeld would beat the Arabs into submission to accept Jews and Israel.
Great headline!
Rumsfeld is a war criminal. He should be in prison, sharing a cell with the other war criminal, Cheney.
And did you see Cheney on FTN on Sunday. He actually had the audacity to say this: "I didn't ask for this job."
War Criminals and Liars. Every last one of them.
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Only to protect Israel, Rumsfeld (a jewish man) destroyed Iraq, using our American children.
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