Reply #22: The Republicans are the appeasers - see my LTTE here.

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Feel free to steal some ideas if you think it doesn't suck too badly:

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In a recent speech, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
compared the nearly two-thirds of Americans who oppose
our occupation of Iraq to those who appeased Hitler
before World War 2. Soon after, President Bush also
invoked memories of Hitler and the Nazis. If you look
at reality, however, it is neoconservatives like Bush,
Rumsfeld, Cheney and Lieberman that are truly the
appeasers of terrorists.

First, these neoconservatives ignored all the pre 9/11
warnings about Al-Qaeda to focus on the Star Wars
boondoggle. Then, they allowed Osama bin Laden to
escape after they had him surrounded at Tora Bora.
Later, in compliance with Osama’s wishes, we removed
our troops from Saudi Arabia, and then kowtowed to
Kim Jong-Il by removing troops from the Korean
Demilitarized Zone. After that, Team Bush outed
undercover agents Valerie Plame and Muhammad Naeem
Noor Khan for partisan political purposes, while the
CIA group assigned to catch bin Laden was quietly
disbanded late last year.

Our invasion and disastrous occupation of Iraq has
been icing on the cake for bin Laden, as it has been a
recruiting bonanza for Al-Qaeda, while simultaneously
bankrupting our treasury and giving our international
reputation a black eye. The Civil War in Iraq is also
allowing the Taliban to regenerate in Afghanistan, as
our military is stretched too thin to help out in both
places. Our ally, Pakistan, recently surrendered
territory to the Taliban.

Combined with Homeland Security initiatives like
cutting funds for port security, explosives detection
equipment, first responders and the CDC, one would be
hard pressed to call the actions of the White House
anything other than appeasement, unless you called it
aiding and abetting.

While Bush and Rumsfeld spoke of appeasing Hitler, it
might be better if we looked inward during that time
to American shores for a more accurate comparison. In
the 1930s, many of that era’s conservatives,
Republicans and business elites advocated alliance
with Hitler and Mussolini. Some, like Prescott Bush,
even did extensive business with Hitler for years, not
stopping until 1942. Now, the present day Bush family
has long-standing business ties to the bin Laden
family. Abetted by his rubber-stamp Republican
Congress, the reality is that Bush is just following
the long-established Republican policy of appeasing
tyrants and enriching terrorists.
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