Iran's Khamenei says Bush is war criminal comparable to Hitler

[bemildred]

Source: Haaretz/DPA

Iran's supreme leader Friday compared U.S. President George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler and predicted that he would eventually be brought to court as a war criminal.

"The day will come that Bush would be brought to a war tribunal for the catastrophe he caused in Iraq. He has to be called to account just like in the case of Hitler and Saddam," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in the Friday prayer ceremony in Tehran.

" has to reply to the simple question why a rich country like Iraq has no water, no electricity, no hospitals, no schools... the only thing the U.S. brought into Iraq was terrorism," Khamenei added.

The Ayatollah said that the U.S. had in the last three decades followed the plan to have full domination of the Middle East with "Israel as its capital," but failed in Iraq, as well as in Iran, Lebanon and the Palestine Territories.

Read more: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/903727.html

[Captain Hilts]

1. He's an idiot. And it never helps to drop the 'H' bomb into a conversation. nt

[coalition_unwilling]

16. Bush is to Iraq as Hitler was to Poland -n/t

[FiveGoodMen]

20. Those who cannot remember -- or talk about -- history are condemned to repeat it

The constant claim that we may never learn anything from one of the most serious and frightening examples of history just because someone's decided that's unfashionable is a disservice to the entire human race.

[saigon68]

2. Well the Chimp Shrub is a War Criminal

He has killed lots more Children than Osama

He is trying to pile up those Towel wearing infidels by the thousands

[coalition_unwilling]

17. It's Christian Dominionist logic;: kill them all (including finally

all but 144,000 Jews) and let God sort them out.

[DavidDvorkin]

3. He's right about the war criminal part

He's also partially right about the Hitler comparison.

Unfortunately, he's completely wrong about Bush ever being brought to justice.

[ContraBass Black]

4. That's not a comparison of magnitude. Title is misleading.

[jobycom]

8. Creating misleading stories about Iran and Ahmadenijad is a media obsession.

wiping Israel off the map, the Holocaust was a myth... The media loves to lie about him, almost as if they are in league with Bush in forcing a war with Iran.

[bullimiami]

5. the context may change the tone. im wary of accepting a haaretz account

re iran as unbiased without checking the original source.
same goes with virtually any us news outlet.

i dont agree that bush will ever stand for his crimes. he will live out his life in wealth and comfort. he wont fall to the fate of a saddam or hitler because there is no force powerful enough to cause it. the us is a haven for criminals terrorists and despots as long as they are 'friendly's'.

[Barrett808]

13. Well, this story is from DPA: Deutsche Presse Agentur

So you need to decide if you trust DPA as a source.

[greyghost]

14. You said...

a mouthful and you are correct.

However, I strongly believe that Bush and the members of his cabal aren't planning on leaving US soil after he's out of office.;)

I'd love too see them try it, but I know they don't have the balls.

The world is not going to forget.

[jobycom]

6. Can anyone disagree with his comments, aside from his prediction

that Bush would be brought to trial? And we can still hope for that. Maybe even posthumously. One would like to believe that the world will one day obtain justice against him.

[EST]

7. I wonder if we should organize a letter and email campaign,

writing to him of our agreement that * is, indeed, a war criminal.

Something like:

Dear Rev. K,
We, the majority, agree with you. Unfortunately, like the democrats in congress, technically, we may be a majority but an essentially powerless one.
Far too many countries in this world are headed up by religious nut cases, don't you agree? How would you propose to bring about the transfer of such nut case murderers and criminals to the responsibility of a world court?
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Well, maybe that wouldn't work so well, after all...

[sinkingfeeling]

9. In this case, Khamenei is absolutely correct.

[greyghost]

15. He's spot on. n/t

[aquart]

10. Oh, those two. Separated at birth.

Really, I think this is just a complicated flirtation with them.

[jpgray]

18. Except all the provided quotes are basically correct

Having a problem with the messenger gets no criticism from me in this case.

[hogwyld]

11. Am I confused?

He calls Hitler a war criminal, so is he saying that the Holocaust was real??

[David__77]

12. I do not think Khamenei denied the mass extermination of Jews.

The president appears to have done so, but not the "supreme leader." It is rumored that they are of different minds on this question. I was watching an interesting report on CNN about a popular Iranian state TV-produced drama portraying a love affair between an Iranian-French man a Jewish woman in Nazi-occupied France. The show acknowledges the genocide of Jews then ongoing. Khamenei must at least be of mixed views, or the show would never have aired.

[coalition_unwilling]

19. Hitler was a war criminal for the aggression against Poland, not

for the Holocaust. Hate to nitpick, but the Holocaust was a crime against humanity that occurred during the occupation of Eastern Europe by Nazi Germany.

[HuffleClaw]

21. other than the hitler bit its all true n/t

[Mythsaje]

22. Nah...he's merely a Bush League mass murderer...

[superkia]

23. I like it when anyone calls out bush and our government!

The truth sometimes hurts but maybe it will open our eyes to whats being done to our country. Killing people for profit is just wrong! We had a system in place so this wouldn't happen but our leaders ignored reason and went with profit and political maneuvering. Shameful!

[Nimrod2005]

24. I say that all the time....nothing new here, move on!

[Bryn]

25. Well, I can't argue

he's right. * should be tried as a war criminal. Look what he has done to Iraq.

[cali]

26. shrug

This has about as much value and importance as my calling out for bush to be tried as a war criminal.

[feloneous cat]

27. Again with the Hitler...

<sigh>

[provis99]

28. I believe the German Generals were sentenced for

Waging aggressive war. Jodl was executed for waging aggressive war. Not the Holocaust, not not exploitation of slave labour, not gruesome medical experiments, not concentration camps, not shooting prisoners, not inducing mass starvation, etc. Just for waging aggressive war.

Apparently, waging aggressive war was enough at Nuremberg to sentence the generals and brand them as war criminals. Well, what is the American leadership doing right now? Waging aggressive war.

The comparison was apt.

[Lionel Mandrake]

30. You are right.

Waging aggressive war, sometimes called a crime against peace, was one of the major charges at the Nuremberg trials. Bush et al. are guilty of this. This alone would justify impeachment.

Of course, Bush et al. are also guilty of other high crimes and misdemeanors.

[IndianaGreen]

29. If Bush uses nuclear bunker buster bombs on Iran, he will be worst than Hitler

One million dead Iraqi civilians since the US invasion, according to a British survey published today.