Thursday, November 01, 2007

HILLARY CLINTON

Hillary Hits Bush For 'Offensive' Historical Analogy... of Osama to Hitler and Lenin?

What to do when you've lost the post-debate spin, have been backed into a corner,

Go back to the basics: Hitting President Bush.

Hillary Clinton Statement on President Bush’s Speech Today 

“George Bush’s faulty and offensive historical analogies aren’t going to end the war in Iraq, make America safer or bring our troops home.  Americans are tired of the President’s efforts to play politics with national security and practice the politics of division.

“When I am President I will end the war in Iraq and bring our troops home safely.”

So what were the offensive historical analogies? Let's look at Bush's speech.

The historical analogies part appears to be:

History teaches that underestimating the words of evil, ambitious men is a terrible mistake. In the early 1900s, the world ignored the words of Lenin, as he laid out his plans to launch a Communist revolution in Russia — and the world paid a terrible price. The Soviet Empire he established killed tens of millions, and brought the world to the brink of thermonuclear war.

In the 1920s, the world ignored the words of Hitler, as he explained his intention to build an Aryan super-state in Germany, take revenge on Europe, and eradicate the Jews — and the world paid a terrible price. His Nazi regime killed millions in the gas chambers, and set the world aflame in war, before it was finally defeated at a terrible cost in lives and treasure.

Bin Laden and his terrorist allies have made their intentions as clear as Lenin and Hitler before them. And the question is: Will we listen? America and our coalition partners are listening. We have made our choice. We take the words of the enemy seriously. Over the past six years, we have captured or killed hundreds of terrorists. We have disrupted their finances. We have prevented new attacks before they could be carried out. We removed regimes in Afghanistan and Iraq that had supported terrorists and threatened our citizens, and in so doing, liberated 50 million people from the clutches of tyranny. (Applause.)

I can see the "I disagree with the analogy" argument, but how, exactly, is comparing Osama bin Laden to Lenin and Hitler offensive? Who's being offended by that comparison?

11/01 03:48 PMShare