Rumsfeld: Target Or Fetishist?
CNN calls out another Rumsfeld Nazi comparison
"Turning our backs on postwar Iraq today would be the modern equivalent of handing postwar Germany back to the Nazis," Rumsfeld wrote in an opinion piece published Sunday -- the third anniversary of the beginning of the U.S.-led war in Iraq -- in the Washington Post.
The anniversary came as officials from Iraq and the United States differed on whether there is all-out civil war there.Henry Kissinger, who served with U.S. forces in Germany at the end of World War II and who served as secretary of state under Republican Presidents Nixon and Ford, said the situations are not analogous.
"In Germany, the opposition was completely crushed; there was no significant resistance movement," the German-born diplomat told CNN's "Late Edition."
I don't want to come off too expat, but let's check the actual interview transcript and see how CNN does their work:
KISSINGER: In Germany, the opposition was completely crushed. There was no significant resistance movement. But as I understand, what Secretary Rumsfeld is saying is this, that if we withdraw unilaterally from Iraq, it will start at least two kinds of conflict.
One is that the insurgents that are now attacking us will be dominant, at least in some of the areas and that, secondly, a civil war will start or may start between the various sectarian groups and that, therefore, these ideas of unilateral withdrawal, without leaving a political framework are extremely dangerous.
Now, whether that political framework can be the ideal democracy that is often described or whether there have to be some intermediary steps, that is a subject about which we should discuss, but a simple unilateral withdrawal and to gear their whole policy to a schedule for withdrawing American forces and leaving a vacuum is much too dangerous.
The whole CNN article is basically an attack on a quote taken out of context. You could say they're villainizing Bush's military mouthpiece... except for the fact that he's done this whole Nazi Germany comparison so many times before. I mean, read the list. He's the one of the reasons Germany -- and Anglofritz -- can't move out of the 20th century.