The Same Old Fascism

Donald Rumsfeld is truly an amazing man. How could someone have his head so far up his ass and still not bump into walls? In a speech to the American Legion in Salt Lake City today, he accused critics of America's invasion of Iraq and counterterrorism policies of suffering from "moral or intellectual confusion."

Wait, don't choke yet when you hear this war criminal speak of moral confusion. He draws a parellel between the appeasement of Hitler in the 30's with opposing his and Dick Cheny's war of aggression, and says "Once again we face similar challenges in efforts to confront the rising threat of a new type of fascism."

Well I thought about signing statements, Valerie Plame, Haliburton, the war in Iraq and this administration's lack of interest in the victims of Katrina. I thought how people often misuse the word "fascist" - it might be helpful to include a definition here, this from
Dictionary.com:

fascism [fash-iz-uhm] –noun
1. (sometimes initial capital letter) a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.

There's nothing new about this fascism. Rumsfeld is just so mind-bogglingly hypocritical he can't recognize the fascists are himself and his fellow future indictees.