Obama just shook hands with RAUL CASTRO....

[thucythucy]

56. Just a tad hyperbolic, don't you think?

Himmler oversaw one of the largest genocides in human history. He was the head of the SS which brutalized, tortured, and murdered tens of millions of people. He implemented, under Hitler's orders and through "Hangman Heydrich" a policy of exterminating people with disabilities, including thousands of developmentally disabled children who were led into gas vans while singing hymns. He was working toward a world-dominating state in which racial, religious, sexual and disability minorities would not only be oppressed, but outright exterminated. He also glorified the use of slave labor.

"Whether or not ten thousand women of inferior race die of exhaustion while digging an anti-tank ditch for us is of no consequence to me. What matters is whether or not the ditch is completed."

"Most of you know what it's like to see ten, a hundred, or a thousand corpses lying side by side. To have seen such sights, and still retain our humanity (!!!) is what makes us strong."

I know Cuba's human rights record regarding political dissidents, people of faith, and people who are GLBT is appalling, but let's keep things in perspective here.

Pulling the Nazi card is almost never appropriate.