Wednesday, May 05, 2004

Would It Be Too Much To Ask...

...to find two friggin' socks that match?

File under Pissing & Moaning.


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Ted Rall Should Get His Facts Straight

Left-wing gassbag Ted Rall has the nerve to compare the recent abuse of prisoners in Iraq with Nazi Germany:

Now it's official: American troops occupying Iraq have become virtually indistinguishable from the SS. Like the Germans during World War II, they cordon off and bomb civilian villages to retaliate for guerilla attacks on their convoys. Like the blackshirts who terrorized Europe, America's victims disappear into hellish prisons ruled by sadists and murderers. The U.S. military is short just one item to achieve moral parity with the Nazis: gas chambers.

Ted must have his head up his ass. There is no comparison. Not even close. The conduct in question was aberrant behavior by a small number of our troops; not the systematic torture and killing of millions. For your information Ted, the Nazis systematically murdered over 5,860,000 Jews and 5,000,000 non-Jewish civilians between 1941 and 1945. The Nazi planned to murder all Jews in Europe as part of the "Final Solution." Nazi doctors, such as Josef Mengele, promoted medical experimentation on inmates, especially dwarfs and twins. He is said to have supervised an operation by which two Gypsy children were sewn together to create Siamses twins; the hands of the children became badly infected where the veins had been resected. According to The Nizkor Project:

Mengele subjected his victims - twins and dwarfs aged two and above - to clinical examinations, blood tests, X rays, and anthropological measurements. In the case of the twins, he drew sketches of each twin, for comparison. He also injected his victims with various substances, dripping chemicals into their eyes (apparently in an attempt to change their color). He then killed them himself by injecting chloroform into their hearts, so as to carry out comparative pathological examinations of their internal organs. Mengele's purpose, according to Dr. Nyiszli, was to establish the genetic cause for the birth of twins, in order to facilitate the formulation of a program for doubling the birthrate of the 'Aryan' race. The experiments on twins affected 180 persons, adults and children. Mengele also carried out a large number of experiments in the field of contageous diseases, (typhoid and tuberculosis) to find out how human beings of different races withstood these diseases. He used Gypsy twins for this purpose. Mengele's experiments combined scientific (perhaps even important) research with the racist and ideological aims of the Nazi regime. which made use of government offices, scientific institutions, and concentration camps. From the scanty information available, it appears that his research differed from the other medical experiments in that the victims' death was programmed into his experiments and formed a central element in it."

Pretty stuff huh? Just like we're doing in Iraq right? Or does it sound more like Saddam Hussein? You remember, the guy whose ass we hauled out of that spider hole a while back. I guess in Ted Rall's mind, we only need to start doing this to be right up their with the most evil men in history:

First he crammed five or six hundred Russians and another 250 sick prisoners from the camp hospital into an underground detention cell. Then the windows were covered with earth. SS men wearing gas masks opened the Zyklon-B canisters to remove what looked like blue chalk pellets about the size of peas, creating a cloud of poison gas. After they left, the doors were sealed. Höss [the Commandant at Auschwitz] wrote later that death was instantaneous. Perhaps that was what he was told. But he was not present to witness the event; he was away on a business trip. Other sources indicate that even the next day not everyone was dead, and the SS men had to release more insecticide. Eventually all the prisoners died. When Höss returned to Auschwitz, he heard about the successful experiment. On Eichmann's next visit to Auschwitz, Höss told him about the possibilities of Zyklon-B, and, according to Höss, the two decided to use the pesticide and the peasant farmstead for extermination.

Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest extermination camp, had four gas chambers (using Zyklon B gas) in operation by spring 1943 . At the height of the deportations, up to 8,000 Jews were gassed each day at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Over a million Jews and tens of thousands of Roma, Poles, and Soviet prisoners of war were gassed there by November 1944.

Yeah Ted, that really sounds like us. You cheapen the sacrifices of thousands of our soldiers because of the conduct of a few perverts. You cheapen the deaths of millions during World War 2 by your stupid comparisons. Hey Ted, let me raise my glass to you:

Ted, you're an asshole. I'd be more pissed if I thought you actually had a brain in your head and said this.

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