It is that time of year again, as Jews around the world solemnly commemorate the victims of the Holocaust while various pundits and politicians demean and desecrate their memory.
With little respect for the facts, and even less for those who were murdered, these puerile purveyors of propaganda do not hesitate to invoke the most horrific act of organized mass murder in mankind's history all for the sake of trying to score a political point or two.
On March 22, for example, liberal television host Chris Matthews compared former president George W. Bush and those behind America's war in Iraq with the Nazis who stood trial at Nuremburg.
"I was really embarrassed," Matthews opined, "by my country, how a President of such limited ability, limited rhetorical ability, mental ability, historic ability, could talk us into a war. You know, the Nuremberg trials were primarily, before the Holocaust and all those other issues, were against people who launched an aggressive war. And this was an aggressive war," he said.
If Matthews has anything to be embarrassed about, it is his breathtaking ignorance. How dare he equate a democracy's principled decision to go to war with that of a murderous dictatorship bent on genocide! And then of course there are the harebrained activists of PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), which has revived a campaign called "Holocaust on your plate" comparing the slaughter of chickens at factory farms to the Nazi murder of Jews at death camps.
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