A Little Reminder To Secy. Rumsfeld From The Memory Hole

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A Little Reminder To Secy. Rumsfeld From The Memory Hole
By Southern Beale
08/30/2006 01:06:40 PM CST

This week Defense Secy. Rumsfeld compared critics of the Iraq war to Nazi appeasers prior to WWII. He said we have not "learned the lessons of history."
A yes, history. Such a funny thing:

Rumsfeld’s handshake deal with Saddam is indeed a history lesson more Americans need to remember.

Oh, and by the way: a message to President Bush, Karl Rove, and the rest of the Republicans who are getting a lot of mileage out of their new favorite word, "Islamic-fascism": the Saudis are not amused. In fact, they have demanded an apology from President Bush, who has used the term several times in the past two weeks:

"We demand a public apology for this falsification as it came from an influential political figure and received wide publicity," Al-Madinah Arabic daily quoted Bin-Humaid, who is also imam of the Grand Mosque in Makkah, as saying. Bush’s statement provoked worldwide Muslim protests.

The Saudi Cabinet last week warned against linking Islam with terrorism and fascism without considering the history of Islamic civilization. "Fascism is a product of Western culture," a Cabinet statement said.

Bush’s use of the term "Islamic fascists" was also criticized by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington-based Muslim advocacy group. "We believe that this is an ill-advised term and we believe that it is counterproductive to associate Islamic Muslims with fascism," said CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad.

Since the Bush Administration is so tight with the Saudis, it will be interesting to see how long they get away with this "Islamic Fascism" nonsense.