Rumsfeld's Iraq-Germany analogy disputed

[spindrifter]

Sunday, March 19, 2006; Posted: 10:11 p.m. EST (03:11 GMT)


• Special Report WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former top officials in two presidential administrations -- one Democratic, one Republican -- disagreed Sunday with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's characterization of what would happen if the United States were to pull out of the war in Iraq.

"Turning our backs on postwar Iraq today would be the modern equivalent of handing postwar Germany back to the Nazis," Rumsfeld wrote in an opinion piece published Sunday -- the third anniversary of the beginning of the U.S.-led war in Iraq -- in the Washington Post.

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Zbigniew Brzezinski, who served as national security adviser under President Carter, a Democrat, was less charitable .

"That is really absolutely crazy to anyone who knows history," he said. "There was no alternative to our presence. The Germans were totally crushed. For Secretary Rumsfeld to be talking this way suggests either he doesn't know history or he's simply demagoguing."

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/19/rumsfeld.nazis/index.html

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What seems significant is the re-emergence of the theme that Rummy is wrong. That there is a deeper meaning than just the Corporate Media waking up to the necessity for change is apparent from the obvious efforts to legitimatize jettisoning Rummy. On the one hand we have their emininces Kissinger and Brzezinski speaking out; on the other hand we have a nicely positioned op-ed piece by Major General Paul Eaton talking about the incompetency of Warlord Rummy. Perhaps this is the hand of the BFEE propaganda machine in operation.

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. he doesn't know history or he's simply demagoguing

How about both?

[ThoughtCriminal]

2. Fortunately, Rumsfeld was not in charge of the Marshall Plan

If these idiots had been in charge, Western Europe would have joined the Warsaw Pact.

[spindrifter]

3. And some of us might be living in the

nation-state of H*burton.

[anarch]

4. why, it would be like the Nazis just abandoning Poland in 1941

or something like that.