Rumsfeld: Disagreeing with the President is like helping the Nazis

Yep, you got it. First, the Bush administration said that anyone who disagreed with it was ‘with the terrorists’ — an incredibly simple-minded view. (”You either love lettuce or you hate farmers. Which is it?”)

Now Rumsfeld adds another example to Godwin’s Law, comparing people who disagree with the President with those who appeased the Nazis.

From the AP:

Rumsfeld alluded to critics of the Bush administration’s war policies in terms associated with the failure to stop Nazism in the 1930s, “a time when a certain amount of cynicism and moral confusion set in among the Western democracies.”

Again, it’s a wonderful example of the Bush administration’s policy of oversimplifying to the point of nonsense. It assumes — incorrectly — that the administration’s policies are the only ones that will work.

What if Bush said, “The way to fight terrorists is to buy more lettuce! And anyone who disagrees with me is an appeaser!”? Well, maybe someone has a better idea to fight terrorists than that, and it certainly doesn’t make them an appeaser.

What if Bush said, “The way to fight terrorists is to give me absolute, unquestioned power, and to force Americans to give up as many civil rights as we can”? Maybe, just maybe, someone else would have a better idea.

Oh, wait. According to Rumsfeld, not only would those people be akin to those who aided the Nazis, they would also be wimps!

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Tuesday accused critics of the Bush administration’s Iraq and counterterrorism policies of lacking the courage to fight terror.

Have things really gotten so bad that the administration has resorted to name-calling? Apparently so.

If you don’t agree with me, you obviously hate puppies. And lettuce.