The eliminationist rhetoric from the right intensifies. How long before these animals come for us? Read this quote from a post at Instapundit:

The real danger is that we who support the war will reach the point that we say "we might as well be taken as wolves then as sheep". At that point the left can celebrate that they have made our military and those who support it the people they claim we are. Once that happens however any compunction about respecting them will be gone, and remember one side is armed and one is not.

Yeah. It's the whistleblower's fault. People accuse the US of atrocities, turns out we are guilty of them, and this animal thinks that the accusations themselves are some sort of justification. We are deep in the Twilight Zone here, folks - the Twilight Zone with guns.

Far too inflammatory a subject to discuss in a liberal blog, I know... but I hope to Grid that when it all does come down, this guy shows up at my house. Expectations will be re-tooled.

Today I want to take The Moose to task for just one sentence, the opening sentence in his latest rant:

The Moose offers some thoughts about the Iranian Hitler.

I submit that this sentence speaks volumes about the way Wittman views the world. He's a genuinely dangerous person; he NEEDS to have someone to demonize. Who does this remind you of?

Watch how he operates. He brandishes the ad-hominem argument as though it were the BFG 2000 weapon from DOOM. It's not enough to discuss the actual facts about Iran; we must, Soviet-like, demonize them before we even begin to think about diplomacy. Diplomacy? Talking with the Iranian Hitler would be appeasement by definition, wouldn't it? So much easier to think if you reduce reality to slogans.

I submit that this sort of rhetoric is to be roundly rejected by our party. Apparently The Moose has never heard of Godwin's Law.

There is a breed of "political thinker" in this country that, in order to try and understand that big, complicated world out there, needs to reduce things to easily-comprehended, viscerally-felt "facts" - even if this process doesn't begin to correctly model the real world. Like Stephen Colbert, they find the facts in their gut.

Wittman is one of these "thinkers". He must create a bogeyman to bolster his argument. The Iranian Hitler, for Heaven's sake. What person in their right mind would argue going after the Iranian Hitler? This is cheap demagoguery of the worst and most dangerous sort and must be rejected as an acceptable way to think about the world. We have enough world leaders whose deepest thinking can be fit in large type on bumper stickers, thank you very much.