Is Condi Rice using faulty reasoning to Compare Sadam with Hitler?

Question

Okay..
see I was totally not trying to indicate what Condi is saying now as dumbed-down as some kind of mere "Global bad-guy contest"... though if that's basically what people are inferencing from our Secretary of State and her heady comments, I guess that in itself is peculiarly informative.

I was under the impression that our foreign policy was a little more than a bad-guy contest, and I gave her the benefit of the doubt as far as her intention being to have people see our FOREIGN POLICY tasks as similar to our time in Germany.

But now I'm seeing that perhaps Condi is even more clever than I already give her credit for.

Merely mentioning "hitler" and "sadam" is all that most people are going to get. Apparently we're not actually capable of poking our attention at the foreign policy puzzle at all. The lone ranger rides into town and lassos a rope around bandit Adolf #2. Nice foreign policy. Can I get some cartoon music with that? Come on folks!

Anybody take a stab at a history book or two lately?

(it's just this "sadam rise to The Level of Hitler" phrase that I have a bristling bone to pick, just now.) I want to make clear that there's really a lot good I see in all these multi-sentence answers.

It's just that she's obviously not saying this to advocate that we now need to GET SADAM. He's already dead!

It's Condi you know, if she's not finessing it like a pitbull, and doing it with dynamic craft of Purpose; it obviously wouldn't be Condi I'm talking about.

Answer 1

You should see Keith Olbermann's monologue for today. There is a logical dissection of Condi's comments. Just like Donald Trump said Condi is only good for one thing ................. waving.
The funny thing is that the Republicans forget who really was on the side of Hitler at that time .............. the Republican Congress.

Answer 2

It's like comparing Bush with Napoleon. They were both bad but Hitler was MUCH MUCH worse. Saddam never killed 6 million jews & 10 million Russians.

Answer 3

Not at all. The crimes differ in terms of scale but not in kind. Saddam tried to completely wipe out entire groups of people and he did succeed on a small scale. If you died along with your entire family, as some kurds did, you wouldn't appreciate people saying that somehow Saddam didn't rise to Hitler's level. (And I have a picture of people from my own family, 23 members in all, 21 of whom perished in that Holocaust).

Saddam's case should be particularly interesting to Americans, however, because we actively supported this nouveau Hitler. In fact, when the UN was going to condemn him for his war crimes, WE VETOED the resolution, because he was OUR GUY who was sticking it to those Iranians, who had the audacity to kick out the horribly oppressive guy that we decided should be their shah. (In place of that democratically elected leader Mossadegh that we decided to overthrow in a 1953 coup).

Answer 4

Hitler was much better than Sadam. Hitler was a political, military, and economic genius. Sadam was trash.

Answer 5

If Condi Rice wants a comparison to Hitler all she needs to do is look at her boss.

Answer 6

Ask the Kurds if they can connect the dots.

Answer 7

Nope. Both killed millions of people. Both tortured thousands of people. Both were evil evil men. And both are being tortured in the flaming pits of H-E double hockey stick.

Answer 8

I'm not Jewish but if the dead could speak,

6 million would probably say yes, she's faulty (so is her reasoning).

Answer 9

Libs and Hitler is a solid comparison

Answer 10

SHE'S IN BED WITH HER HUSBAND BUSHY--AND ITS A COMPARISON OF THOSE THREE
BUSH SADDAM HITLER.