Charles Rangel Compares Iraq War To The Holocaust
Newsmax - Top House Democrat Charles Rangel complained on Monday that the Bush administration's decision to concoct a "fraudulent" war in Iraq was as bad as "the Holocaust."
"It's the biggest fraud ever committed on the people of this country," Rangel told WWRL Radio's Steve Malzberg and Karen Hunter. "This is just as bad as six million Jews being killed. The whole world knew it and they were quiet about it, because it wasn't their ox that was being gored."
The Harlem Democrat charged that top Bush officials "made up [their] mind to go into Iraq long before 9/11. And every one of the players who made this decision - they were part of this plan to do it. From Rumsfeld to Cheney, Wolfowitz, Bolton, every one of them - Perle - [they were part of the] plan to put our kids in harm's way long before 9/11."
Rangel insisted that American blacks and poor whites are dying in Iraq, while those who supported the war aren't paying any price.
Saddam Hussein tortured and murdered political dissenters, sometimes by throwing them in industrial plastic shredders. He held sham elections where he got 99% of the vote. He massacred hundreds of thousands of his countrymen and buried them in shallow mass graves. Yet, for some reason, our brave soldiers who rescued the Iraqis from that terrible regime are guilty of the holocaust.
What a awful, shameful thing for Rangel to say
To be fair, I think Rangel was trying to compare the "world's silence" about what he is undoubtedly perceiving as atrocities in Iraq to the world's silence about the holocaust in Nazi Germany during the first part of WWII. But still, he's drawing a comparison between the Nazi's occupation of parts of Europe and America's occupation of Iraq, which is, to any sensible person, beyond the pale. The fact that Rangel is an elected representative of the American people makes it even worse.
Anyway, I'd like to ask one question: Where's the media coverage? If an unsubstantiated rumor of Koran abuse is enough for Newsweek to run a story where's the coverage for this?
