Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:45:00
Holocaust survivor trumps Dutch
A Democrat with some balls. Nice.
The Dutch are threatening to remove their 1,600 troops from Afghanistan to protest Gitmo. Dutch politicians face growing problems with Islamic youths and likely fear a L’Intifada like France suffered in 2005.
Peters said: “We have to close Guantanamo because it symbolizes for me everything that is wrong with this war on terror.”
To which Lantos apparently replied: “Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay”
Tom Lantos is a Democrat from California. He’s also the only Holocaust survivor in Congress, and he’s not taking any Dutch crap over camps and wars.
Sure, he’s a fairly liberal Democrat, which means many of his policies are in opposition to the way I think, but credit where credit is due. If the report is right and he really said this, I thank him and I hope he doesn’t even consider apologizing for it. It needed to be said. I respect him for saying it.
Imagine if this kind of thing happened all the time. We could respect politicians again, even when we disagreed with them. Wait. Has anyone ever respected politicians? I might be off on that. ;)
Posted by JimK at 07:45 PM on October 27, 2007
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#2 Posted by ErikTheRed 
on 10/29 at 11:59 PM -
The only problem is a bunch of left-tards will probably take this and run with “See? He’s saying that Guantanamo’s like Auschwitz!!! Bushitler did it!!!”
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#1 Posted by Buzzion
on 10/27 at 10:02 PM -
He’d better be careful or they’ll treat him like they did Lieberman.