Bush/Rumsfeld/Hitler vs. the Kurds (#24501)
by C.R.W. on November 28, 2003 at 12:17 PM

Not all of us are mental monoliths.

I don't have a problem with the article exposing and ruminating over what occured over 60 years ago, I just don't think it has personal relevance to George W. Bush or his political career. I'm vindicated in expressing this idea because some people refuse to acknowledge the existence of ties between business and politics that are impossible to extinguish, yet persist in repeating this theme as a way to excoriate inheritants of a system they did not invent. The time-absent context supplied by people who would superimpose the conditions of "twenty years ago" on the events of today or any other era is one way to blur the crucial distinctions that prevent a simplistic "guilt by association" mindset.

I'm no fan of betraying the leaders of the post-Gulf War uprising, so it's too bad I have to disappoint you on the attempted straw man. Although it would be less likely to occur if you didn't lump a series of posts in with a childishly simplistic worldview that doesn't get much more complicated than political duality.

It is legitimate to question the wisdom of supplying chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein (or anyone for that matter). Supporting his side in a war against the Iranian theocrats, slightly less unwise. But equivocating between the use of such weapons in war versus their use against entire villages populating his own people in order to quash political dissent, morally blind and reprehensible.