mr-knowitall's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Love the Lefties Part II Most of the folks I know who are Democrats wouldn�t even agree with this one. MoveOn.Org is putting out a series of commercials drawing parallels between President Bush and Adolph Hitler. Tom showed me this last night, and honestly I found it to be ignorant and amusing. But what is sad about it is the people who produced it truly believe it to be true. Having education and true historical perspective enables me to see the horrible error that is being made here. But Jack Rosen, president of the American Jewish Congress, says it perfectly as he writes in Monday's WALL STREET JOURNAL: "MoveOn.org informed potential ad makers that 'we're not going to post anything that would be inappropriate for television.' Two of the ads posted on the group's Web site compared Adolf Hitler to George W. Bush. One ad morphed an image of Hitler into President Bush and says that, '1945's war crimes' are '2003's foreign policy.'" Rosen says MoveOn.org is "using the memory of that genocide as a political prop. Their comparison diminishes the reality of what happened, and their actions cheapen the memory of a horrific crime. It also does a terrible disservice to this country at a perilous time, when we need to examine the dangers we face with clarity and purpose." Leadership is "about confronting threats to freedom everywhere. President Bush has shown that leadership in Iraq, and our troops have liberated a people who were oppressed by another murderous dictator. MoveOn.org compares this liberation to the Holocaust. It deploys a picture of Hitler to vilify President Bush. Comparing the commander-in-chief of a democratic nation to the murderous tyrant Hitler is not only historically specious, it is morally outrageous. Comparing an American president, any American president, to Hitler is an outrage. The MoveOn.org ad was inexcusable. Political figures such as Al Gore, who have associated themselves with MoveOn.org, have a special responsibility to condemn these ads; donors to the group such as George Soros have the same responsibility. They owe it not just to the memory of the millions who died in the Holocaust. They owe it also as a simple matter of decency." I couldn�t have said it better myself Rick 2:48 p.m. - 2004-01-05 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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