Charles Rangel, left wing Congressman from New York, has added more to the proof that he is a nutcase. Previously he advocated renewing the draft, which led to newspapers all over the country scaring our youth with the implication that Bush wants to restart the draft, despite the fact that Rangel is a Democrat, and the only elected offical to suggest such a thing. This time he's compared the war in Iraq with the Holocaust, with the justification that no one is saying anything against our government, allowing them to do whatever they want. First off, it's an insult to Holocaust victims, and victims of real genocides like the ones currently happening in the Sudan and Zimbabwe. Second you can't open a newspaper, a magazine, or turn on the TV without seeing someone speaking out against the administration. Finally the best quote to sum up what allowed the Holocaust to happen is:

First they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out –
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the communists
And I did not speak out –
Because I was not a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out –
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me –
And there was no-one left
To speak out for me.

Pastor Niemöller, 1938

Not only have I not heard of Bush's administration coming for anyone but suspected terrorists, but whenever they do even that, plenty of people speak out. Any Holocaust comparison as thing currently stand is a gross insult and irresponsible to boot. In what fantasyland does encouraging the people that have the stated goal of wanting to kill Americans beocme a respectable thing for a Congressman to do?