On May 12, 2006, at 11:08 AM, Prasad J wrote:
As for the "Nazi regime", kindly take the time to observe how U.S Marines in Abu Ghraib are dragging leashed Muslim men around the place like animals, are using attack dogs to torment them, are electrocuting them, and are even going so far as to make them form "naked pyramids".
That's the Army there, not the Marines.
Now these activities are eerily reminiscent of what Nazi S.S Guards did to Jews in concentration camps. Admittedly, the Nazi atrocities occured on a much larger scale but the pain and humiliation suffered by the victims is the same.
The Nazis attempted to exterminate or enslave everyone of non-German descent living in Europe. It's not even the same thing and it makes you look like a hyperbolic, irrational fanatic for saying so. I don't support the Administration's policies, but the best way to oppose the administration is by making rational arguments against their policies--not by making bad comparisons to the Nazis.
As to complaints of prisoners at Guatanamo Bay being put through some sort of "sensory deprivation"(again notice the photographs of prisoners being blindfolded,earmuffed,gagged,and face-masked) and other innovative "interrogation techniques" the spokesperson chose to remain silent. So you will forgive me if I draw a few parallels between such atrocities and those committed by the Nazis (albeit,as I said, on a much,much larger scale).
Yes, because all the Nazis did was put the Jews into sensory deprivation and ask them questions to try and prevent terrorist attacks.