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September 07, 2006
Dear Mr. Rumsfeld,
And all of your supporters/cohorts.
I just want to make this clear. I am not a Nazi. Nor am I a supporter of Nazis, and most importantly, I am not some sort of Nazi-ignoring ostrich, hiding my head in the sand.
How dare you compare yourselves to the Allied Forces in WWII? How dare you? Suggesting that international terrorism is like Nazism? And that those of us who think that war is not the answer are like those who denied the growing power of the Reich through fear and ignorance?
You have it exactly backwards.
Those of us who are upset about the war are not some sort of fifth column, ready to roll over and show our bellies when the fascist boot tramps across America. Those of us who oppose the war are a lot more like the people screaming, "Hey! This whole military might thing is taking an ominous turn! Do we really need to invade the Sudetenland/Poland/Iran/Iraq?"
International terrorism is nothing like the Nazis. They don't want to take over the world. They want to destabilize it. Because a world in chaos is a world where fear reigns and you can get people to toe line and fall in with your policies more easily.
But the people who run secret prisons where "alternative interrogation" methods are used? The people who announce that Islamic fundamentalism needs to be wiped out? Those are the people who are frighteningly similar to the Nazis, and those are the people I oppose.
Just for the record, Mr. Rumsfeld? That's you.
Posted by sally at September 7, 2006 08:30 AM
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