Salon: "Rumsfeld likens al-Zarqawi to Hitler."

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

HMMMM...a "violent extremist, failing to advance his political objectives"...Jeezis, that WOULD be frightening...WOULDN'T it?



http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2005/05/26/rumsfeld/index.html

May 26, 2005 | 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.

Iraqi ministers said Thursday they have information verifying rumors that reputed terrorist mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had been wounded. Al-Zarqawi is Iraq's most wanted militant and has claimed responsibility for the country's deadliest attacks.

Rumsfeld addressed the Army's elite 82nd Airborne Division, which has had 42 soldiers killed and 450 wounded in action in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001. About 1,500 division soldiers are in Afghanistan, and about 400 are in Iraq.

[ButterflyBlood]

1. it's not innaccurate though

despite being a classic example of the pot calling the kettle black.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

2. True, especially in the last paragraph of the article:

""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."

It doesn't get more "Bush Administration" than that.

[ProudDad]

3. Gee, I would think he's

more like George Washington or the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. He's defending his country and people against the invading hoards...

[Lone_Wolf_Moderate]

7. You can't be serious. n/t

[happynewyear]

4. it takes one to know one!

:kick:

[zann725]

6. Cloning? Or ...

..."Who's your daddy?"

[applegrove]

5. Weren't we all being told last month to stop it with the comparisons

to Hitler?

Was this so that the neocons could then use the words?