Insurgency could get worse: Rumsfeld (comparisons to desperate Nazi SS)

[sabra]

Rummy is on fire today!

http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,16211928%255E1702,00.html


Insurgency could get worse: Rumsfeld

US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned today that violence in Iraq could worsen, comparing insurgents to desperate Nazi SS officers and Japanese kamikaze pilots at the end of World War II.

Insurgents were desperate to stop political progress in Iraq, Mr Rumsfeld said, following one of the bloodiest weeks for US forces since the US-led invasion in 2003.

"I think it's reasonable to expect that violence could, again, increase for a time, as it did during the last elections," Mr Rumsfeld said, looking ahead to a referendum on a new constitution in October and elections in December.

"As allied forces (pushed) forward in both the European and Pacific theatres in World War II, the enemy's tactics, such as the cult of death among SS forces and the kamikazes in the Pacific, led to some of the bloodiest fighting of that war," Mr Rumsfeld said.

[NNN0LHI]

1. One question Rummy. When has the violence ever gotten better?

Did I miss something?

Don

[warrens]

2. Hey Donny

Why don't you get your Nazi ass over there and pick up a gun? It's the last throes, they'll probably just surrender if they see you and the cowards you work for show up.

[HockeyMom]

3. I saw a picture of a crying Fallujah father holding

the body of his bloody, dead, 8 year old son. How many insurgents did we create from that family alone?

No, this is nothing at all like the Nazis. They were SOLDIERS fighting SOLDIERS. These are the PEOPLE of IRAQ fighting back. That is the definition of the word INSURGENT; countrymen/women/children.

[Javaman]

4. So now rumsfuck has compared the Iraqi's nazi's, very nice.

If the fucking idiot ever read any history, there were still hardened soldiers ready to fight. Yes, there were many old and young (hitler youth divisions)"draftees", but against popular belief there were 3 divisions still battle ready in Berlin or at least running like hell towards the US to surrender.

And people also forget that the forces in Holland weren't defeated, they surrended at the close of the war.

The history that rumsfuck is talking about consists of hitler youth on bicycles with rocket grenades. Most surrendered. And very very very few inflicted any casualities against Allied troops.

Aaaaaand if he's referring to the Russian side of the war. They were beating back an already defeated German Army from their failed invasion of Russia.

And correct me if I'm wrong, Japan only surrendered after the bomb was dropped. And to further that thought, at the close of hostilities, Japan still had an enormous army in Manchuria.

Colossal failure*

[bahrbearian]

5. The Nazi's and Japanese became desperate after

we Firebombed their cities. (In reflection he may be right.)

[grytpype]

6. The more the insurgents win the more desperate they become

The more the insurgents win the more desperate they become...
the more desperate they become the harder they fight...
the harder they fight the more they win....

so you see it is a vicious circle that will result of course in victory for Bush. Because he always wins. God wills it.

[samsingh]

7. Rummy is still trying to use parallel world logic on us

or old Soviet techniques.

[teryang]

8. The Nazi's and the Japanese invaded, occupied, stripped....

and tortured the peoples and countries they invaded. I wasn't aware that the Iraqi people had invaded and occupied any country or were imposing themselves as overloads of nation. Seems we did that.

These twisted analogies are distorted projections of our own serious moral, legal and ethical wrongdoings on the international scene. They can't be spun off and projected onto the victims.