Since the right wing seems to survive on BS analogies, how about this one:
Saddam Hussein
is exactly like Hitler, if only Hitler had possessed one of the weakest and most incompetent military forces in the developed world, and at the time of our engaging him he was not invading or bothering any other countries, but ten years earlier had invaded Belgium for their chocolate and had been beaten back by the U.S. military in less than 72 hours including mop-up detail. FDR's father had been the president at the time and lost his re-election bid due to general ineptness w/ the domestic economy and other issues, but young FDR, (a former coke-snorting draft-avoider who had never accomplished anything in his life despite having been born on 3rd base),
, immediately began planning a military invasion of Germany after his contested election in which vote counting had been stopped by a politically friendly Supreme Court.
Hitler's Germany was at the time inhabited by U.N. inspectors who were doing a competent job of searching for evidence that he might pose a threat to the rest of the world, but so far the evidence was not forthcoming. Young FDR, utilising false intelligence and outright fabrication and lies/exagerations, sounded an alarm to invade Germany immediately, and began the task of recruiting allies. It did not go well, the others asked, "What's the rush? Let the inspectors do their job. He can't do **** while we are in his country with teams of spooks going through his laundry. Why are you so anxious to go straight to war? Many people will die even if it goes well. Take a deep breath, young cowboy who has never been in a war, listen to reason here."
Young FDR ignored their advice and abandoned the U.N. when they would not co-sign his pre-emptive war plan, (while still using the impromptuer of the U.N. in the form of violated resolutions to prosecute his own war),
, young FDR squandered 100s of billions of $$ and soldier's lives+ god knows how many German civilians, bankrupted the U.S. economy and we are still there trying to install, (oops, I mean administer), a friendly government 65 years later.
Do you like it?
(Don't get too caught up in the facts/details, that just ruins a perfectly good analogy).
