Newt Gingrich is a well-known right wing Republican warmonger.
He calls for war with Iran now and that diplomacy with Iran is of no use.
There is little doubt that he would have the approval of the Bush Administration, who would see his comments as helping prepare Americans for the new war with Iran.
He plays an important role in U.S. politics and may be positioning himself to be the Republican presidential candidate to replace George Bush in 2008.
Patrick Buchanan's article shows how totally absurd and wrong Newt Gingrich's statements are.

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Churchill, Hitler, and Newt

By Patrick J. Buchanan, February 20, 2006

 

You can always tell when the War Party wants a new war. They will invariably trot out the Argumentum ad Hitlerum.

Before the 1991 Gulf War, Saddam had become "the Hitler of Arabia," though he had only conquered a sandbox half the size of Denmark. Milosevic then became the "Hitler of the Balkans," though he had lost Slovenia, Croatia and Macedonia, was struggling to hold Bosnia and Kosovo, and had defeated no one.

Comes now the new Hitler.

"This is 1935, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is as close to Adolf Hitler as we've seen," said Newt Gingrich to a startled editor at Human Events.

"We now know who they are – the question is who are we. Are we Baldwin or Churchill?"

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