Worse than Nazis?

Liberal cartoonist Ted Rall weighs in on how Israel (and Bush) are acting like Nazis. You know that's precisely what President Ahmadinajad said as well. Coincidence? Or just another example of the toxic anti-western bias of the left?

Neither the United States nor Israel is equivalent to Nazi Germany, yet both countries have adopted a Nazi-like obsession with collective punishment. Israeli Defense Forces, which subject centers of Palestinian resistance in the occupied West Bank to curfews and encirclement by barbed-wire fences, taught their techniques to U.S. occupation troops in Iraq. After Islamist suicide pilots killed 3,000 Americans in the September 11 attacks, the U.S. government justified the killing of 200,000 Afghans and Iraqis as an act of "self-defense."

George W. Bush exceeded Hitler's 50-to-1 ratio.

Anybody get that? 'The U.S. and Israel are not equivalent to Nazi Germany'-- no, in fact, they surpass Nazi Germany in the brutal use of 'collective punishment'. Rall is actually saying that Bush and Israel are worse than Nazi Germany!

Now Israel is "reacting" to the capture of two of its soldiers by the Palestinian resistance organization Hezbollah by invading and bombing Lebanon. Death tolls that fall disproportionately heavily upon Palestinians have long been a hallmark of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. During the 2000-03 intifada, for example, at least seven Palestinians were killed by Israelis for every Israeli killed by a Palestinian. Now, as of this writing, more than 500 Lebanese civilians have been killed by Israeli bombs. On the Israeli side, 15 civilians have died in Hezbollah rocket attacks and 14 soldiers have been killed in combat.

Current ratio: 30-to-1.

"Israel has a right to defend itself," Bush said at the start of the current Middle East crisis. No doubt. But the Israelis aren't defending themselves any more than the Bush Administrative is defending us. Each is using a crime--the kidnapping of two soldiers, the 9/11 terrorist attacks--as an excuse to wage war against innocent people who had nothing to do with it. Meanwhile, the criminals--the kidnappers and those behind 9/11--are allowed to get away scot-free. ~news.yahoo

Yes, for the left, America and Israel are Nazis waging war against innocent people. Is it any wonder then why some of the party faithful might feel that Democrats and their priorities are 'misunderstood'? As these college students opine:

...at the three-day College Democrats National Convention, several students expressed frustration, saying voters simply don't understand the Democratic Party and its priorities. ~news.yahoo

I think the real problem for Democrats and the left is that voters do understand them and their priorities. It's not as though Democrats haven't been getting their message out. After all, no one has been able to silence all the 'patriotic dissent' from those like Ted Rall, Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, Michael Moore, or Howard Dean et al. In fact, they have been quite vocal in articulating a great many things about what their priorities are.

But a dozen years of Republican control of the House and six years of White House rule have left young Democrats dismayed. They complained that Democrats have been unable to explain themselves to voters and Republicans are perceived as the party of moral values.

"I still believe Democrats are right on the issues," said Andrew Gordon, 20, a junior at the University of Wisconsin. "I don't think we've had an election on the issues for a while. I just never feel that Republicans are very honest with voters." ~news.yahoo

What are these Democratic issues that have yet to be communicated?

There is no war on terror...
Republicans are Nazis...
Coal is 'Nazi Oil'...
Republicans stole the election...
Republicans can only win by lying...
The GOP is 'a white Christian party'...
Terrorists are freedom fighters...
Three thousand people were murdered on George Bush's watch...
Bush lied, people died...
...etc etc etc...

The only sense in which Democrats haven't explained themselves well is in hiding the extent of their anti-americanism and extreme leftism. They have to continue dodging and weaving to avoid admitting things that they know will be unpopular. We can only hope and pray that they will soon drop the facade and explain themselves to voters fully. Perhaps by demanding a fully socialist health care system, or full social justice and equality through strong state action via redistribution of income. Or perhaps a new new deal for the 21st century.

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