Posted on 09/10/2007 12:00:06 PM PDT by rfp1234
Sep 10 02:11 PM US/Eastern By RON FOURNIER Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - As a prosecutor at Nuremberg, Thomas Dodd charged the Nazis with "the apprehension of victims and their confinement without trial, often without charges, generally with no indication of their detention." His son, Sen. Chris Dodd, wonders today whether he did enough to stop the United States from violating that same rule of law in the war on terror.
"For six decades, we learned the lessons of the Nuremberg men and women well," the Democratic presidential candidate writes in his book, "Letters from Nuremberg: My Father's Narrative of a Quest for Justice," published this week. "We didn't start wars—we ended them. We didn't commit torture—we condemned it. We didn't turn away from the world—we embraced it."
"But that has changed in the past few years," Dodd writes.
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Say it with me...
Pleeeze.
I think Dodd forgets that we detained people without charge during WWII. What differentiated us from the Nazis was that we did not put people under our control in gas chambers. Without that aspect, the war crimes trials would probably not have been put in place.
And the implication that there's a parallel between the US circa 2007 and Germany circa 1945 is beyond belief.
Chris Dodd — what can we say. If he really thinks the U.S. is a moral or legal equivalent of Nazi Germany, then he doesn’t have the intelligence, historical perspective, or judgement to be President of the U.S.
And if he really believes that, then he’s probably preparing to be arrested and detained himself. Anyone in a position such as his in Hitler’s Germany would have been arrested and disappear somewhere. The fact that he is not being arrested and will not disappear disproves what he is trying to say. So what exactly is he saying??????
Actually, Dodd’s father lost his seat - defeated in the Democrat primary in 1970 - because of his support for the Vietnam War. Obviously, the son is a morally inferior creature when compared with the father.
I meant to say to clarify.
Anybody in Hitler’s Germany in a position such as Chris Dodd, criticizing his own government and his own commander in chief would have been arrested and disappeared into one of Hitler’s prisons. Since nothing like that is going to happen to him, it disproves what he is trying to say.
Beware when immoral people preach about morals.
IMHO, Dodd is desperately trying to attract attention to his irrelevant campaign, but will end up strengthening the stereotype of the ‘Rats as weak and naive on the issues that matter (national security and terrorism).
Wishful thinking? MSM blackout? Perhaps...now back to 24/7 coverage of Larry Craig, and the upcoming anniversary of Macaca!
“I’m Chris Dodd, and I did NOT make a sandwich with that woman...the waitress!”
He didn’t inherit the seat (sort of). His father, who lost to Prescott Bush in his first run, was censured by the Senate in 1970 for using campaign funds for his own expenses. His father ran for reelection but lost to Lowell Weicker. That seat is now held by Lieberman.
Fournier proves his point of view here by repeating the lie that Max Cleland’s “patriotism” was questioned in 2002. If you’re a Democrat, I suppose, your voting record and judgment are supposed to be above all criticism.
Support came from a quarter I hadn’t counted on. It was [Gunther] Grass, speaking in English.“For the past hour I have had my eyes fixed on the door here,” he said. “You talk about fascism and police repression. In Germany when I was a student, they come through these doors long ago. Here they must be very slow.”
— Tom Wolfe, The Intelligent Coed’s Guide to America.
“His son, Sen. Chris Dodd, wonders today whether he did enough to stop the United States from violating that same rule of law in the war on terror.”
While he simultaneously has no such qualms about the torture and imprisonment of political prisoners by his friend on the left, Castro, with whom Dodd would like us to “normalize” relations.
Typical of a liberal, always in possession of two standards for everything.
Obviously he (Dodd) forgot one underlaying rule concerning the Tribunal - “Yes we did it but so did you” - that defense was ruled invalid by them.
Chris Dodd ought not to be bringing up his father’s connection to the Nuremberg Trials. Why? Because his father used the knowledge he gained in studying the Nazis to craft the 1968 Gun Control Act. See http://www.jpfo.org/GCA_68.htm for a detailed write-up of this.
Tom Dodd brought Nazi concepts about gun control to these shores. His son should STFU.
Thomas Dodd lost the primary to a Yalie cleric named Joe Duffy, who would eventually become president of the ADA. Duffy lost the general election when Dodd ran as an Independent spoiler. Lowell Weicker squeaked in with a bare plurality in that 3-way race.
The campaign waged by Duffey was very reminiscent of the 2006 Lamont dog-and-pony, with left-wing true believers flocking in from out-of-state to work for him. Among the foot soldiers in the campaign were Yale Law students BeelzeBubba and the HildeBeast.
Appreciate the details.
Bears repeating. I was going to post that but I see you are ahead of the game.
FRegards.
Dodd The Younger, even betrays his own father and the work he did.
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