Comments on: If Godwin’s Law had teeth

By: Joe Beets

Joe Beets — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:46:54 +0000

Any politician who invokes a totem such as the Flag, God, Jesus, National Security, or “The Children” to justify any political position should be fined $1 million per instance.

By: johne

johne — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:45:28 +0000

“…speak out without being beheaded, shot, stoned, or gassed.”

Do I get the sense that the bar is being set lower? A few years ago, we might have congratulated ourselves on our freedom from open-ended secret detainment without charge or representation, spying at executive whim, or restriction to government-chivvied media.

By: alwin

alwin — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:49:06 +0000

If Godwin’s Law had teeth, then the debate would be over – and every person who has, for the last six years, been comparing Bush and Hitler would have folded their tents and left the field for their crimes.

Fortunately, it doesn’t. We are still free to debate, to question, and to speak out without being beheaded, shot, stoned, or gassed.

By: AKMA

AKMA — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:27:44 +0000

Re: the comment above — I guess the War on Reality is succeeding beyond what I would have thought possible.

Thanks, David, for helping remind those of us who actually were paying attention to the cast of characters (and their policies) that the current war against Iraq has an ugly genealogy. One begins to wonder whether each change of presidential administration wipes clean the consciousness of what politicians were up to during preceding regimes.

By: thespis

thespis — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:36:15 +0000

In the midst of the worst attack on any public figure in recent history, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave a stunning speech on Monday further explaining and defining the current events in Iraq. He received little coverage for the speech with the exception of incessant, liberal sniping for being political. Wow! The liberal elites who manipulate the media every day are calling an American who has spent a large part of his adult life in resplendent service to our nation a hypocrite. Smarmy news bimbos get to mislead the public about the war while calling Mr. Rumsfeld a hypocrite. While Rumsfeld and the men and women of our armed forces fight terrorism, these people blame America for everything wrong with the world. After all, Jack Murtha said that we created the terrorists.