Howard compares Iran to Nazi Germany

[One Honest Guy]

May 20, 2006 - 5:10PM

Prime Minister John Howard was among three world leaders who today said an Iranian bill, which reportedly would force non-Muslims to wear coloured badges in public, was akin to Nazi Germany.

However, Teheran emphatically denied the report, in a Canadian newspaper, that the law would force Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians to wear a yellow, red or blue strip of cloth, respectively, on their clothes.

While acknowledging they had no details beyond the newspaper report, Mr Howard and leaders from the United States and Canada went on the offensive, all evoking the atrocities of Nazi Germany.

Mr Howard was joined in the attack on Iran by the US and Canada, who said they had no details on the issue beyond the newspaper report.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/howard-compares-iran-to-nazis/2006/05/20/1147545561673.html

[Minstrel Boy]

1. This bullshit story

has been debunked many times over, but the fuckers who want war are just going to keep shouting it.

[One Honest Guy]

19. Notice the line?

"While acknowledging they had no details beyond the newspaper report..."

So, they had no idea if it was true at the time, and yet they choose to scold Iran right off the bat?

[babylonsister]

2. Howard apparently got his marching orders from Il Dunce, no?Debunked

HERE:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1238695

[joemurphy]

3. Next he'll be comparing himself to Winston Churchill. n/t

[Xeric]

4. Another diversion, more propaganda

It's interesting that the same week Israel's high court affirmed the racist marriage ban on the spouses of Israeli Arabs we get this pile of tripe. That story barely made waves while this is pushed by the neo-cons as yet another excuse to attack Iran. It's shameful propaganda of the lowest order and if anybody should be tagged with the nazi label it's the perpetrators of the "big lie" that pushed this.

[IChing]

6. Can you link that story?

Thanks

[Xeric]

7. This is from the Jerusalem Post

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1145961370884&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

"Israel has declared war on family life and, by extension, on its very ethical foundations. The Supreme Court's decision to uphold the provisional law denying spouses of Israel's Arab citizens the right to reside in the country comes on the heels of the coalition agreements that preclude any change in the prohibition on non-religious unions.

Israel has become the only country in the democratic world where not all those who marry can live in its territory and where many of those who live in its territory cannot marry. "


Also see:
http://www.counterpunch.org/cook05192006.html

[IChing]

9. thank you, important information N/T

[Kailassa]

5. LOL, Howard on the offensive? Howard IS offensive.

As a freedom-loving Australian, I detest that little shrub-sucker.

[stepnw1f]

8. The Nazi Calls others Nazis

Great tactic...:crazy: I fuckin hate conservative politicians...

[IChing]

10. What are you one of those Islamofascist?

Newspeak at it's best.....I hated that term, which took fascism and it's documented history and turned it on it's side.

[stepnw1f]

11. That World is an Insult to those who have Brains

They make up their own language to suit their political needs. Just so American citizens can go along with this greedy, filthy military industrial complex. We need to take the profit out of wars.

[ticapnews]

12. By Godwin's Law, Howard lost the second he opened his mouth.

:)

[AnOhioan]

13. Pot calling kettle......

If only these right-wing assholes could go the way of Berlusconi....buh bye.

[NYC Liberal]

14. This whole Iran story came from a *Neo-Con* reporter!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Taheri

Amir Taheri is an Iranian-born journalist and author based in Europe.
His writings focus on the Middle East affairs and topics related to Islamist terrorism.
Mr Taheri is a member of Benador Associates, a Public Relations firm that is a clearing house for international Public Policy Speakers.

Now...let's take a lookie at this "Benador Associates" shall we?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benador_Associates

Benador Associates is a public relations firm and speaker's bureau that promotes expert writers and speakers focusing primarily on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, particularly those from a neoconservative point of view.

The CEO and founder of the firm, Eleana Benador, is a Peruvian-born linguist-turned-publicist whose client list of prominent and influential neoconservatives includes Richard Perle, the former chairman of the Defense Policy Board; former CIA director James Woolsey; Daily News columnist A.M. Rosenthal; American Enterprise Institute resident scholar Michael Ledeen; National Review contributing editor Frank Gaffney Jr.; former Washington Times editor in chief Arnaud de Borchgrave; former Secretary of State Alexander Haig Jr.; and Iraqi dissident Kanan Makiya, a Brandeis professor who advocated the 2003 invasion of Iraq

[occuserpens]

15. "Iranian dressing code": black PR op

http://inplainview.monitor.us.tt/comm.ME06.htm">2006-05-20 "Iranian dressing code": black PR op

[Lydia Leftcoast]

16. Your link doesn't work

Anyway, there's a shameful history of black PR.

In this country, it dates back at least to World War I, when the British tried to encourage the U.S. to join the war by spreading stories of German soldiers eating Belgian babies for lunch. (This was revealed to be a lie after the war, and memories of that deceitful campaign were one reason why a lot of people refused to believe the first reports of the Holocaust.)

I remember talking with otherwise liberal friends about the Nicaraguan situation after John Negroponte spread reports that the Sandinistas were persecuting Jews. They believed the reports, even though the idea made no sense to me, since governments usually persecute only minorities that are numerous enough to be visible to the public as a whole, not minorities that are a minuscule percentage of the population.

[occuserpens]

25. yes, wrong link :-(

will repost, thanks

[Julius Civitatus]

17. Right on cue...

http://www.juancole.com/2006/05/another-fraud-on-iran-no-legislation.html

[fedsron2us]

18. And they open their boiled eggs from the wrong end.

Surely reason enough for war ?

[JohnKleeb]

20. Iran's definely a tyranny under Ahmadijad and the clerics

but that doesn't make it Nazi Germany. I hate it when people compare things to Nazi Germany without truly compherending just how evil Nazi Germany was. I hate it when our side does it too.

[robcon]

21. The colored-badges report is phony.

Like the plastic turkey story for Bush, it has a life of its own without any source or truth behind it.

[no safe haven]

22. John Howard...still pimping for Bush*

It's what he does best.

[UnseenUndergrad]

23. Oh sweet jesus in a sock puppet....

Our resident ultra-rightwingnut on the Saturday Winnipeg Free Press, Tom Oleson, just fell for this same piece of bull crap. Not surprising... first the cons try to infiltrate the student elections at the U of Winnipeg, and this idiots been blasted on more times than I can count.

[newyawker99]

28. Hi UnseenUndergrad!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[AusGail]

24. I still find it hard to take him seriously

After living under Howard's regime for over 10 years I find that he still has trouble faking sincerity. He actually is a dangerous little nerd. He had no quarms about sending our troops into Iraq after knowing that our wheat board had given Sadam Hussein 300 hundred million dollars in kick backs. He has no conscience. He has just signed off on an industrial relations bill which is certain to create a "working poor" class of people. He solved our deficit problem by selling the Australian people's biggest asset (Telstra, our telecommunications company).

His little holiday is costing us in excess of 60 thousand dollars a day. He may be comparing Iran to Nazi Germany, but I remember that he was one of the very few that supported Israel's wall of shame. That reminded me of the Warsaw Ghetto.

Thankyou to that one protester in Washington and thankyou to all the trade union protesters in Canada.

[occuserpens]

26. "Iranian dressing code": black PR op

2006-05-20 "Iranian dressing code": black PR op

[OKthatsIT]

27. So we're magnetically attracted..'like attracts like'

Thanks NeoCons...just brilliant, you pigs