For example,
Condi Rice and ashcanned Pentagon honcho Don Rumsfeld have risibly compared the full-blown, years-long Iraqi insurgency , which has killed more than 3,300 U.S. troops, to the "Werewolf" organization of post-war guerrillas that the Nazis sketchily planned in the waning days of the war – and which was never activated, because it didn't really exist. Not a single American soldier was killed by "insurgents" or "dead-enders" in occupied Germany and Japan in the years following the war.
Then there are people like the "eminent" historian Victor Davis
Diehard Hanson, who, as
Greg Sargent and many others have noted, just
makes crap up out of nothing, writing last week in the Washington Post
that this period of the Iraq war should be compared to WWII's dark
hour before triumphant dawn in, er, December 1945, when the war was
long over in both Europe and Asia.
But even if you granted these
bloodthirsty twerps their ludicrous comparison -- between a war fought
to stop military aggression and the war of miltary aggression that they
themselves have launched and/or lauded – how should we deal with this
report from Iraq: "US Launches Artillery Barrage in Southern Baghdad"?
Surely not even the most pig-ignorant fantasist or cynical lie-monger
would pretend that Allied forces were launching artillery attacks in
Berlin and Tokyo in 1949, four years after the "mission accomplished"
of VE and VJ Day?
Yet this is where we are today in Baghdad at
a similar point in the occupation, as Reuters reports, in
a small,
brief story that was, naturally, ignored by most of the corporate
media, where news of the never-ending aerial and artillery bombardment
of Iraqi cities is kept discretely out of view:
The U.S.
military in Iraq launched an artillery barrage in southern Baghdad on
Sunday against suspected insurgent targets, with two dozen loud
explosions shaking the southern outskirts of the capital….The Iraqi
police said the artillery was being fired from the U.S. Forward
Operating Base Falcon in southern Baghdad into the al-Buaitha
neighbourhood of Dora, a volatile district that is a Sunni insurgent
stronghold.
Think of it: launching artillery shells into
residential areas of a city that you supposedly conquered – sorry,
"liberated" – four years ago. And in fact, the only thing that made
this assault newsworthy, according to Reuters, was that it happened in
broad daylight: " Artillery blasts have been heard in the evenings but
they are rare in the daytime," the story noted.
Despite all the
best efforts of the professional liars and the feverish fantasists,
there is no comparison between World War II and the ungodly quagmire
that Bush and his willing executioners have wrought in Iraq, except in
one respect: they are both the product of a war crime -- wanton
military aggression.
The dwindling band of armchair cheerleaders for the war in Iraq often like to point to the end of World War II as a comparison point for rebuilding conquered lands. 
