Cook explains Hitler comparison

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3236086.stm

Robin Cook has rejected suggestions he compared Tony Blair and George Bush with Hitler during a radio interview.
Mr Cook said he had simply highlighted the danger of using human rights to justify an invasion, such as Iraq.

He used the example of Hitler's excuse of protecting the German minority in Czechoslovakia for invading in 1938.

But Mr Cook, who quit government over Iraq, told BBC Radio 4's Today "the point I was making is quite separate from any comparison of individuals".

He said: "They are politically poles apart and they come from very different political systems.

"The point I was making is that we have got to be very careful that if we claim a right of humanitarian intervention, then it has to be legitimated on a multilateral, international basis.

"What is dangerous is to allow one country, or two countries to decide for themselves which countries should be invaded and have the regime changed on grounds of humanitarian arguments, because those arguments can be used by others in ways that we might not welcome and would not approve. That is the point I was making."

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1. All that aside, Bush is a lot like Hitler.

Maniacal little twirp.