Rumsfeld likens Zarqawi to Hitler

[Cocoa]

there must have been some order that it's now ok to torture WWII analogies...

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/politics/11745801.htm

FORT BRAGG, N.C. - In a pep talk to thousands of paratroopers Thursday, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld likened al-Qaida's reportedly wounded chief in Iraq to a cornered Adolf Hitler during 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.

<snip>

Like the Japanese kamikaze attacks at the end of World War II, the suicide bombings by the followers of al-Zarqawi are a sign of desperation, Rumsfeld said.

"The Zarqawis and the bin Ladens, like the tyrants and fascists before them ... tried to destroy things they could never build, and they tried to kill people they could never persuade," Rumsfeld said.

[ET Awful]

1. Tried to kill people they could never persuade? Gee, Rummy

wasn't that your whole premise for blowing thousands of people to bits?

[arcane1]

2. "kill people they could never persuade"

sounds familiar....

[cascadiance]

13. Yup... Palpatine was finding the Sith "publicly" everyplace

else except in himself too... Same difference!

[Todd B]

3. Um, is this like the pot calling the kettle black?

"The Zarqawis and the bin Ladens, like the tyrants and fascists before them ... tried to destroy things they could never build, and they tried to kill people they could never persuade," Rumsfeld said

*cough*

Hello. Pot. Kettle. Black? I mean, hell, we destroyed Iraq and we can't rebuild it. And don't get me started on the administration and Saddam - obviously we couldn't pursuade him either.

Rummy might want to write his scripts better. Idiot.

[LibDemAlways]

4. Rummy sounds like he is describing the

BFEE. Is he talking about the elusive Zarqawi with one leg and the bullet in his lung who has popped up in more scenarios than Forrest Gump? Thought so.

[DinahMoeHum]

5. Gee, RummyDumDum, where is Zarqawi's air force? submarines?

tanks?

Like Hitler, my ass.

Folks, this is a MAJOR problem with Bush & Co. They ALL think they're fighting World War II all over again. (the "good war" and all that). And unfortunately they conned a lot of good people along the way. Including my own brother and sister-and-law.

Vietnam should have taught them (and us) better. But then, NONE of them served out there, or even wore a uniform.


:argh:

[Hand]

6. Godwin's law sez Rumfilled just lost the discussion!

Sorry, asshat, but first one to invoke the Hitler comparison loses... end of thred. Go back to the kiddy porn sites. :rofl:

[Pithy Cherub]

7. Is it really possible to OD on irony?

Rummy has now declared Open Irony Season! Irony escapes Rummy as has, bin Laden, Zarqawi, the permanently changing #3 at al Qaeda...

[malaise]

9. Mirror, mirror on the wall

who's the best Hitler of us all. These men are beyond brazen.

[Roland99]

17. I wish.

[Skip Intro]

8. Up to his neck in the blood of innocents, skeletor continues the charade

[deutsey]

10. Zarqawi replies: "I know you are, but what am I?"

[WeRQ4U]

11. These Hitler comparisons have got to stop.

It seems like every other day there is someone accusing someone else of being Hitler-esque. It's tiresome.

[Melodybe]

12. Funny, I liken Rumsfeld to Hitler all the time.

Rumsfeld is a German name after all.

[Pale_Rider]

24. No ...

Rumsfeld is better than Hitler! As is Bush!

[drdtroit]

14. How did someone with such an adolescent thought process (Rumsfeld)

ever get to the high position he has obtained in our government?

[Goldmund]

16. haha you think that he actually thinks that?

No, he's appealing to the FAUX bots which possess the said "adolescent thought process". Everything they say is propaganda.

[drdtroit]

34. That is the whole tract of these people,

appealing to the least common denominator, furthering the "dummification" of America!

[daleo]

15. Hitler controlled the military of a vast superpower.

He used that military to invade countries and slaughter innocents by the millions. He also subverted democracy in his home country. Kind of like Rumsfeld and Bush (although they are only in the tens to hundreds of thousands so far).

[BillZBubb]

18. That's called Projection, Rumhead--look it up.

It is the single most pervasive psychological manifestation of a right wing nut job.

[ninkasi]

28. Exactly

And they sure use that projection tool a lot, don't they? That's kind of how I keep track of what they really mean...see who they are savaging in their press conferences, and that's what they're up to, or a quality they possess.

[TahitiNut]

30. Amen! Absolutely.

[KamaAina]

19. Hey Rummy! You forgot Saddam

oh, right, never mind...

[Zorra]

20. Neocons conquer a sovereign country in order to steal their oil,

(among various other nefarious purposes), will probably invade and conquer Syria in order to gain better seaport access for their oil, and then have the nerve to compare Zarqawi to Hitler?

Is Rumsfeld really as stupid as he makes himself out to be? Or is he just terminally self-deceived?

[VegasWolf]

21. Don't psychologists refer to this type of labeling as projection? n/t

[rexcat]

22. Look who the Minister of War for the US is comparing Hitler with...

Good grief. Don't these people in the Bush administration have any humility.

[n2doc]

23. Hey Stupido war monger

Yeah, Rummy, this means you:
Have you ever heard of the idea that many radical Arabs hate Jews, and thus comparing one of them to the biggest killer of Jews in history of them all might be a complement?

[Selteri]

25. Last I checked, this is called Projection.

But My oh My how the hitler word keeps popping out of these Neo-Con Republican Mouths lately.

[goclark]

26. If Rummy wants to see Hitler he needs a mirror nt

[0007]

27. Has this guy, Rumsfeld ever been right about anything?

[Geo55]

29. Behold CITIZENS !

Observe the EVIL in my left hand ! (and glance not at my right)

[pinniped]

31. Sounds like Rummy the Dummy is talking about his POS boss.

--"Like Hitler in his bunker, this violent extremist, failing to advance his political objectives, now appears committed to destroying everything and everyone around him," Dumsfeld said.--

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

32. Yeah, they never found him, either.

[Andrushka]

33. Nothing like Hitler...

He had two legs, for a start...

[truthisfreedom]

35. so does that mean he's actually like bush?

makes sense to me. 8^)