Rumsfeld Says War Critics Are Nazi Appeasers

By John Amato — August 28, 2006

Rummy is losing it once again:

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday the world faces ``a new type of fascism'' and likened critics of the Bush administration's war strategy to those who tried to appease the Nazis in the 1930s. In unusually explicit terms, Rumsfeld portrayed the administration's critics as suffering from ``moral or intellectual confusion'' about what threatens the nation's security.

Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., a former Army officer and member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in an interview Tuesday that ``no one has misread history more than'' Rumsfeld. `It's a political rant to cover up his incompetence,'' said Reed, a longtime critic of Rumsfeld's handling of the war.

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