Congressman Apologizes for Hitler Comparison in Radio Remarks

The Associated Press ^ | Jul 17, 2005 | Anon AP Stringer

[Pharmboy]

Ah...I see what you meant. I thought you were focusing on the suicide attack.

[MikefromOhio]

kamikazes were one particular type of attacker but the Japanese as a whole slaughtered or enslaved anyone they came across.

Yeah, ask the Chinese, the Koreans and the Filipinos....

[Vaduz]

A mole democrat look at McNuts.

[mark3681]

Ditto

[muir_redwoods]

Here's free advice for everybody on earth. Avoid Hitler and/or 3rd Reich comparisons at all costs. They are always seen as over the top even though Stalin and Mao were worse.

[cripplecreek]

I wonder if the Japanese would have become suicide attackers if they had had a great deal more contact with the American public.

[mark3681]

You're right. It can most certainly be read that way.
It just gripes me how the Dems always get a pass on these sorts of remarks, and the Retardicans don't.
Even though LoBiondo is a small timer, you can bet this will make national news.

[goldstategop]

One way to rephrase is by saying Hitler had a definite target in mind from Day One. OK, every one knew it was Jews; he made that clear in speeches, in party directives, in boycotts, and in German government policy after he became Chancellor in the 30s. What the Congressman meant to say I gather, if one can interpret his remarks sensibly, is that Islamofascists enemy is indiscriminate. Of course, they want to destroy the West but they also seek to destroy Muslims deemed collaborating with us, like they're doing in Iraq. So they reach a lot more people in a lot of different places than the Nazis did. The Germans Judeocide campaign by and large was confined to Europe; the Islamofascists offensive against the West is more akin to a global crusade. We're literally in the midst of World War III and the stakes are just as high for us as they were in the last world war.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[headsonpikes]

The short bus must drop this Solon off at the Congessional door every morning.

[infidel29]

I understand the need to compare the Islamo-fascists to a historical group like the Nazis. It gives the common person who doesn't follow what's really happening a point of reference. Like "oh that's what they're doing, Nazis were bad so these people must be bad."

I don't agree with it, these animals are just as bad as any murderous group in history and they need to be described as such. They are lying, murderous idealouges. They are depraved, they are overbearing, iron fisted, sexist, cruel, underhanded, back stabbing thugs wearing the guise of religious zealots. They kill for their culture, they starve their own, and aim to destroy all that are unlike they are.

[buffyt]

....and the muslim terrorists hate US.....

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

They too aspire to a mad dream of world domination over the pyres of skulls of the infidel dead ...

More true than many people believe. My company started sponsoring a "Diversity" week during the summer when people from various cultures present artifacts and presentations about their home or ancestral lands during lunch. In the summer of 2001 I attended a presentation on Islam given by one of our employees, who was born and raised in Pakistan ("Land of the Pure", image if Hitler had renamed Germany "Reinland").

He had a slide show, which he said he had given a local schools, churches and other organizations. I found it to be highly insulting and presumptuous. The entire presentation had a Calypso Louie air of unreality about it. His thesis was that the relative change in power of Europe and decline in the fortunes of Islam was due to the discover of coal around 1500. It seems that coal made Europe habitable. ("No fair, man, youse guys is using coal!") He had maps depicting the spread of Islam at its height, circa 1400 and others showing predictions of its spread over all of Europe by 2050 and the entire planet at some point in the not too distant future. Imagine if a German-American had presented slides showing Grosser Deutschland in 1942 encompassing most of Europe and confidently predicting that by 2050 a resurgent Deutschland would encompass Europe and North Africa and by 2100 all of the Americas, Asia and Australia.

[traviskicks]

don't see the big deal in his comments.

[TheCrusader]

"Hitler, in his philosophy, was, you know, he hated Jews, he was murdering Jews, and there were some people he liked. But he never went to the level that these people are going to," LoBiondo said."

I don't know why this guy decided to recant, the only people he could have possibly offended were Nazis and terrorists. I don't see much difference between Hitler and the terrorists of our own day, as they both possess/ed a particular hatred for Jews.

They have different methods of killing and conquest, but their aspirations are pretty much the same, namely, world domination. We declared war on both enemies. Hitler hated all things non-Aryan, Islamic terrorists hate all things non-Muslim. The comparisons are fair, IMO.

[goldstategop]

Good point. One other thing the Nazis and the Islamofascists have in common is a racist devotion to a superior race. For the Nazis, it was the German Aryans; for the Islamofascists, its Arab Muslims of Sunni Wahhabi Salafist background. In their ideal world, every one else would be dead. The Nazis are extinct but the Islamofascists are quite serious in creating a New Order in which there are no infidels on the planet - meaning us.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[frankiep]

Whats the problem? Are Nazi references allowed only when it is a dumocrat making them while explain to the world why our military is so evil. As I see it, the Islamofacist sub-humans we are fighting, to include the ones locked up in Guantanamo, are at least as bad as the Nazis were and would perpetrate the same atrocities against "the infidels" that the Third Reich did if they had the capability.

[Pharmboy]

Yep...can you imagine how badly the dummocrats would be doing if the MSM weren't so totally in the can for them on EVERY issue? With all the MSM propaganda, it is amazing that we're doing as well as we are.

I guess we must thank Rush and Sean and Laura and Mark &etc...

[Pharmboy]

Yes--yours is a thoughtful interpretation and may very well be correct. But gee whiz, when you compare anyone to Hitler and the Nazis--esp. when you say the other guy's worse--you better be clear about what you mean (mebbe he should hire you as a spokeman)!

[Pharmboy]

I think this snippet "But he never went to the level that these people are going to," LoBiondo said" might stick in some people's craw.

[RedRover]

Agreed. I wish you had been the one being interviewed. Explaining the remark would have been far better than immediately apologizing.