Comments on: 100-Year McCain Again Compares Iraq To Germany, Japan http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/01/100-year-mccain-again-compares-iraq-to-germany-japan/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:39:20 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: whitebeard http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/01/100-year-mccain-again-compares-iraq-to-germany-japan/#comment-1368770 whitebeard Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:03:55 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/01/100-year-mccain-again-compares-iraq-to-germany-japan/#comment-1368770 <p>“Someone who favorably compares Iraq — three religiously and culturally distinct countries crammed into one by British after World War I — with the ethnically, culturally and largely religiously united societies of Germany and Japan, displays a fundamental misunderstanding of history.”</p> <p>Or a fundamental misunderstanding of reality.</p> “Someone who favorably compares Iraq — three religiously and culturally distinct countries crammed into one by British after World War I — with the ethnically, culturally and largely religiously united societies of Germany and Japan, displays a fundamental misunderstanding of history.”

Or a fundamental misunderstanding of reality.

]]> By: selise http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/01/100-year-mccain-again-compares-iraq-to-germany-japan/#comment-1368765 selise Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:56:46 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/01/100-year-mccain-again-compares-iraq-to-germany-japan/#comment-1368765 <p>punaise -<br /> </p><blockquote>was devoting a tad too </blockquote> <p>yeah, i can relate to that!</p> <p>angie - right back at you. </p> <p>gotta go get some stuff done myself, hope to catch up with you both in the threads</p> punaise -

was devoting a tad too

yeah, i can relate to that!

angie – right back at you.

gotta go get some stuff done myself, hope to catch up with you both in the threads

]]> By: earlofhuntingdon http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/01/100-year-mccain-again-compares-iraq-to-germany-japan/#comment-1368761 earlofhuntingdon Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:53:27 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/01/100-year-mccain-again-compares-iraq-to-germany-japan/#comment-1368761 <p>In reference to the war in Iraq, the WaPoo’s Richard Cohen (or his editors) used a picture of Anne Frank and a cursory review of a revisionist book that argues we should not have fought World War Two, to refute the argument that we should not be fighting this war in Iraq.</p> <p>That false comparison demeans Americans almost as much as it demeans the words and spirit of that remarkable girl we came to know only through her Diary. Which was also the lens through which many of us vicariously first came to grips with the horror of war. Mr. Cohen, have you no shame?</p> In reference to the war in Iraq, the WaPoo’s Richard Cohen (or his editors) used a picture of Anne Frank and a cursory review of a revisionist book that argues we should not have fought World War Two, to refute the argument that we should not be fighting this war in Iraq.

That false comparison demeans Americans almost as much as it demeans the words and spirit of that remarkable girl we came to know only through her Diary. Which was also the lens through which many of us vicariously first came to grips with the horror of war. Mr. Cohen, have you no shame?

]]> By: angie http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/01/100-year-mccain-again-compares-iraq-to-germany-japan/#comment-1368753 angie Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:43:15 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/01/100-year-mccain-again-compares-iraq-to-germany-japan/#comment-1368753 <p>blushing here… thanks to all of you.</p> <p>(how can I thank you enough for keeping up the good ‘fight’ and maintaining my evanescant ’sanity’ lo these long 7 years?</p> blushing here… thanks to all of you.

(how can I thank you enough for keeping up the good ‘fight’ and maintaining my evanescant ’sanity’ lo these long 7 years?

]]> By: punaise http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/01/100-year-mccain-again-compares-iraq-to-germany-japan/#comment-1368746 punaise Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:39:18 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/01/100-year-mccain-again-compares-iraq-to-germany-japan/#comment-1368746 <p><em>? - someday i hope to hear a report-back on that…</em></p> <p>not as drastic as it sounds - just needed to focus on work in these sketchy economic times. was devoting a tad too much time to thread-hopping .</p> ? – someday i hope to hear a report-back on that…

not as drastic as it sounds – just needed to focus on work in these sketchy economic times. was devoting a tad too much time to thread-hopping .

]]> By: punaise http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/01/100-year-mccain-again-compares-iraq-to-germany-japan/#comment-1368745 punaise Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:36:50 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/01/100-year-mccain-again-compares-iraq-to-germany-japan/#comment-1368745 <p><em>to get some april ’fuel’?</em></p> <p>jokers wiled!</p> to get some april ’fuel’?

jokers wiled!

]]> By: dmac http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/01/100-year-mccain-again-compares-iraq-to-germany-japan/#comment-1368743 dmac Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:32:46 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/01/100-year-mccain-again-compares-iraq-to-germany-japan/#comment-1368743 <p>punaise at 119 says-cheers, Kirk! I crawled out from under a rock for April 1.</p> <p>to get some april ’fuel’?</p> punaise at 119 says-cheers, Kirk! I crawled out from under a rock for April 1.

to get some april ’fuel’?

]]> By: selise http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/01/100-year-mccain-again-compares-iraq-to-germany-japan/#comment-1368742 selise Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:32:23 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/01/100-year-mccain-again-compares-iraq-to-germany-japan/#comment-1368742 <blockquote><p>de-blogification program</p></blockquote> <p>? - someday i hope to hear a report-back on that… </p> <p>whatever is takes to make the sparks fly!</p> <p>p.s. it is great to have angie back… makes the thought of a blog sabbatical less appealing.</p>

de-blogification program

? – someday i hope to hear a report-back on that…

whatever is takes to make the sparks fly!

p.s. it is great to have angie back… makes the thought of a blog sabbatical less appealing.

]]> By: dmac http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/01/100-year-mccain-again-compares-iraq-to-germany-japan/#comment-1368738 dmac Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:29:07 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/01/100-year-mccain-again-compares-iraq-to-germany-japan/#comment-1368738 <p>sander0 at 115</p> <p>thanks for that link, hmmmmm…..</p> <p>(that site, they were hot on the trail of something last year, too, can’t remember what)</p> sander0 at 115

thanks for that link, hmmmmm…..

(that site, they were hot on the trail of something last year, too, can’t remember what)

]]> By: punaise http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/01/100-year-mccain-again-compares-iraq-to-germany-japan/#comment-1368735 punaise Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:21:03 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/01/100-year-mccain-again-compares-iraq-to-germany-japan/#comment-1368735 <p><em>(I love my moniker)</em></p> <p>all hail Angie O’Plasteigh!</p> (I love my moniker)

all hail Angie O’Plasteigh!

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