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norml Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 03:54 PM
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Iraq insurgents are Nazis: Rumsfeld
Iraq insurgents are Nazis: Rumsfeld
From correspondents in Washington
August 10, 2005
From: Agence France-Presse

US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned overnight that violence in Iraq could worsen, comparing insurgents to desperate Nazi SS officers and Japanese kamikaze pilots at the end of World War II.

Insurgents were desperate to stop political progress in Iraq, Rumsfeld said, following one of the bloodiest weeks for US forces since the US-led invasion in 2003.
"I think it's reasonable to expect that violence could, again, increase for a time, as it did during the last elections," Rumsfeld said, looking ahead to a referendum on a new constitution in October and elections in December.

"As allied forces (pushed) forward in both the European and Pacific theatres in World War II, the enemy's tactics, such as the cult of death among SS forces and the kamikazes in the Pacific, led to some of the bloodiest fighting of that war," Rumsfeld said.


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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16211929-38198,00.html
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glitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 03:56 PM
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1. Is he admitting they are black ops working for him? He is slipping.
Not supposed to admit that rummy.
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lvx35 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 03:57 PM
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2. hehehe. lol nt
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Nightjock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 04:01 PM
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3. Spin spin spin
The occupants of the White House are the Nazis.

Rumsfeld is the Propoganda Minister.

Fuck them all. Soon everyone will see through thier bullshit.
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Burried News Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 04:03 PM
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4. This message was approved by the ADL.
See Senator Durbin - it isn't what you say but who you are that counts.
Besides we don't need an apology from Rumsfeld - he has 'sorry' written all over him.

"Cult of Death" - they sound like your kinda guys Don.
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earthside Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 04:03 PM
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5. It Takes One to Know One n/t
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Darranar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 04:04 PM
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6. This is laughable propaganda...
The Resistance is not going to lose any time soon.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 04:13 PM
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12. I listened to most of Rummy today--he was frustrated with all the question
s about who was winning --the coalition or the insurgency.



Rumsfeld cautioned that observers should not "draw the wrong conclusion" over any spike in violence.

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"As long as the Iraqi people persevere, the terrorists cannot win," he said.

Senior Bush administration officials have repeatedly argued that the insurgency in Iraq is losing ground as political developments progress.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in an interview released on Sunday that the insurgency in Iraq was "losing steam".

"It's a lot easier to see the violence and suicide bombing than to see the rather quiet political progress that's going on in parallel," she said.

Vice President Dick Cheney sparked controversy in June when he said the insurgency was in its ...."last throes".
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 04:06 PM
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7. do you get the feeling that rummy is getting a bit daft
in the head? he`s reliving ww2 to make a point that only the people his age can connect with. i`m 58 years old and my connection is that i was raised right after this war.i have no personal connection to that time.
so who is he talking to?
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O.M.B.inOhio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 04:06 PM
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8. There they go again! Ascribe their own evils to their enemies! Every time!
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jzodda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 04:07 PM
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9. More fast food for the uninformed masses
first off suicide bomings are not desperate, its now standard business in that part of the world

next this sounds like the standard pentagon BS mesage that they have used since Vietnam. When casualties go up say its because we are winning and they are desperate! I would like to say Americans are too smart to buy into that, but I know better :D
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Stirk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 04:09 PM
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10. Another faulty WWII analogy. Remember his talk of the Werewolves
in post-war Nazi Germany? If I recall correctly, they never killed a single US soldier, and barely managed to blow a couple of rail lines.
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Stirk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 04:11 PM
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11. By the way- where are all the people who always say making Nazi
comparisons is disrespectful to the actual victims?

Only works one way, I suppose.
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neweurope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 04:18 PM
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13. Yesyes, they've been in their last throes for quite a while and will
be for quite a while... Last throes of Nazis and Sand Niggers always take a bit longer.


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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!
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Anarcho-Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 04:31 PM
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14. Third Reich analogies are lame
"He's a nazi", "she's a nazi", "they are nazis", "...just like the holocaust".

People who dish such labels out without thinking ought to read some European history from the 1930s and 1940s. Then they'll understand what a nazi really is.
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