If I hear one more World War II analogy to justify the Iraq War...

[bluestateguy]

I'm going to just blow my stack. The mantra includes some or all of the following talking points:

Saddam was Hitler, and we had to stop him right now to save the world. Democrats are the appeasers and Bush is a stand in for Winston Churchill. Corporate profiteering in Iraq is somehow analogous to rebuilding of Japan and Germany. Because dissent was not allowed in WWII, well, we just can't have any dissent now. We suffered setbacks in WWII and prevailed, so the same thing will happen in the Iraq War.

Why can't the apologists for this war simply justify it on its own terms? Why do they need to borrow moral authority from a war that has been over for 60 years to justify the Iraq War?