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Nazi comparison may fit after all
commonwonders.com ^ | June 30, 2005 | Robert Koehler

Posted on 07/04/2005 12:16:36 AM PDT by Hajman

Edited on 07/04/2005 12:51:42 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

When I was a kid and the worldwide horror at Nazi atrocities was fresh, I had no doubt that the only way the human race could climb from the pit they put us in was by letting the images of the concentration camps stamp themselves on our consciences forever, so that as individuals and as a nation what we stood for first was: Never Again.


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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barfalert; durbin
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Koehler writes for Tribune Media Services. His e-mail address is bkoehler@tribune.com.

This nut writes for the local paper here in Lewiston, ID. Let's see what kind of interesting replies we can get for him..

-The Hajman-

1 posted on 07/04/2005 12:16:42 AM PDT by Hajman
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To: Hajman
As long as our population of political prisoners held without charges in inhumane conditions...

"political prisoners"?

Anyone who calls captured terrorists "political prisoners" has lost all credibility.

2 posted on 07/04/2005 12:20:46 AM PDT by saquin
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To: Hajman


The writer is an ignorant terrorist appeasing pansy


3 posted on 07/04/2005 12:20:55 AM PDT by devolve (-------------------------------------------------)
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To: Hajman
The horror of our little war on terror is that we're behaving with the same lurid inhumanity that has, since the 1940s, been associated with Nazism.

Capt. Hyperbole strikes again. Mr. Koehler doesn't come up to the standard for journalist, much less historian. Wonder what Durbin and the DNC paid him for this editorial?
4 posted on 07/04/2005 12:23:26 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Happy Birthday America!)
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To: Hajman
"If Durbin's comparison had truly been out of line, it wouldn't have generated such hysteria."

This has got to be one of those ackwardbass liberals that believes good is evil, black is white, and hate is love.
5 posted on 07/04/2005 12:25:09 AM PDT by Texas_Jarhead
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To: Hajman

The Author of this garbage must be suffering from Cranium Rectumitis


6 posted on 07/04/2005 12:27:34 AM PDT by MJY1288 (Whenever a Liberal is Speaking on the Senate Floor, Al-Jazeera Breaks in and Covers it LIVE)
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To: Hajman

The thinking of this fool and all his fellow travelers is made quite clear by the fact that, though he sees Naziism in the wars of liberation by the US of people from two brutal regimes, and though he equates gas chambers with the placing of panties on prisoners heads and pages of the Koran allegedly treated with irreverance, neither he, nor any of his fellow accusers have ever used the label of "Nazi" to describe the murdering, torturing, raping regime of Saddam Hussein, nor the beheading, lynching, flesh-burning ideology of radical Islam. If this fool, or any of his left-wing compatriates were in the least bit intellectually honest, rather than blindly antipathetic toward the US, they would have used "Nazi" to describe the regimes against which we fight first, and thus would have been led to the label of "liberator" for the US and its allies.


7 posted on 07/04/2005 12:28:26 AM PDT by fr_freak
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To: Hajman
"...we can kick detainees to death for a good cause..."

This is libel, pure and simple. If I could have Koehler in my company for a few minutes, he would be screaming "freedom of speech" at the top of his lungs!

8 posted on 07/04/2005 12:28:49 AM PDT by nightdriver
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To: MJY1288
The Author of this garbage must be suffering from Cranium Rectumitis


Does this not prove what Durbin and this guy and left wing liberals in the democratic party is all about???
It's the continuation of the party's steady meltdown!!!
9 posted on 07/04/2005 12:35:11 AM PDT by danamco
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To: Hajman

He's such a lunatic .. why bother.


10 posted on 07/04/2005 12:36:47 AM PDT by CyberAnt (President Bush: "America is the greatest nation on the face of the earth")
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To: Hajman
This nut writes for the local paper here in Lewiston, ID.

I thought you had REAL men in Idaho. This slanderous pos needs to be fired - and you can take that any way you like.

11 posted on 07/04/2005 12:41:29 AM PDT by Just A Nobody (As Iraqi's stand up - We will stand down. . President Bush, 6/28/05)
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To: fr_freak
Great Post!

Al-Qaeda/Plotters of 9/11 must take great pleasure in seeing how the Democrats Party is responding to the threat they represent just 4 years after the most horrific attack on our soil in this nations history. The left has been a tool for every Tyrant the world has known for the past 100 years. The same useless idiots that were exploited by Communist N. Vietnam, are now holding seats in the House and Senate. When History is written, 20th Century Liberalism will go down as the most pathetic defense of humanity since Pontius Pilate

12 posted on 07/04/2005 12:42:34 AM PDT by MJY1288 (Whenever a Liberal is Speaking on the Senate Floor, Al-Jazeera Breaks in and Covers it LIVE)
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To: danamco

See post #12


13 posted on 07/04/2005 12:43:29 AM PDT by MJY1288 (Whenever a Liberal is Speaking on the Senate Floor, Al-Jazeera Breaks in and Covers it LIVE)
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To: Hajman

I fought not the death chamber guards for I was a Man of Peace.
I cast away mine eyes from evil for I was a Holy Man.
I stand before my Eternal Judge awaiting my reward.


14 posted on 07/04/2005 12:55:22 AM PDT by Socratic (Liberal's motto: Capio ergo sum.)
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To: Hajman

In his rush to lionize Durbin he forgot to hold to the truth. The fact is, that quite the opposite of warning of impending Nazi-like events Durbin has, by his comparison of ZERO deaths in Gitmo to the approximate 9 MILLION deaths at the hands of Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot he has diminished, and even implied such deaths have not occurred. It's a well known axiom that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it...Well, Durbin and the democrat party has forgotten the horrors of Auschwitz, Buchenwald and the Killing Fields. By virtue of the left's lost sight of history that the left will be the force pushing for totalitarian regimes...just consider the results of what happens when concepts such as big government and the "it takes a village" mentality take over. Individual freedoms become inconvenient to the smooth function of that big government the left so desperately desires.


15 posted on 07/04/2005 12:59:13 AM PDT by highlander_UW (I don't know what my future holds, but I know Who holds my future)
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. . . 9 MILLION deaths at the hands of Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot . . .
<<

Try 40 million, And that's a low ball.


16 posted on 07/04/2005 1:13:51 AM PDT by noblejones
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To: Hajman

When is the next Hajj? Will you be going?

To find a rough parallel to what we are doing today, it is far more instructive to look at what we did ourselves to the Japanes in WWII. And in this case, we are only detaining combatants, where as in WWII we interred the entire population of Japanese-Americans.

You pretty much have to be a hard core Islamakazi idiot to wind up at Gitmo. I am not going to lose a lot of sleep if these guys are held under humane conditions for a few years while we work out this whole struggle-for-global-domination thing. Given my druthers, though, I would prefer that their treatment be humane. We are good enough to do that.


17 posted on 07/04/2005 3:39:18 AM PDT by gridlock (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES!!)
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To: Hajman

That article is the most putrid bunch of shlock that I have read in a long time.


18 posted on 07/04/2005 4:18:14 AM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life, or nothing at all)
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To: Hajman

Morons like this remind me of Dennis Miller's line from early in the Iraq war; that to the left, Bush is Hitler, Rumsfeld is Hitler, Cheney is Hitler -- Everybody is Hitler except the mustachioed, anti-Semitic dictator who mass-murders his own people.


19 posted on 07/04/2005 4:19:05 AM PDT by HHFi
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To: gridlock
You pretty much have to be a hard core Islamakazi idiot to wind up at Gitmo

And very close to core of Al-Qaeda. If we shipped GTMO every single POW caught in Iraq, we would have long ago run out of room.

20 posted on 07/04/2005 4:21:41 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
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