Sunday, October 22, 2006

Long Live Mein Fuhrer?

This is about the most ignorant and repulsive thing I've heard all week (Ok, sure, it is only 12 hours old at this point so there is room for bigger idiocy from another senator.):

One day, Lugar said, "there will be an American president talking to the 'Great Leader' and his people and saying, in essence, in terms they can understand, 'We are not going to overthrow you; we are not involved in regime change; you're going to stay,'" Lugar said, referring to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. "I hope it happens sooner rather than later."


So let's see, first he got the official title (well, one of them) of the Pillsbury Nuke Boy wrong. Kim Il Sung was the self-proclaimed "Great Leader" of North Korea. His son, the current nut-in-chief Kim Jong Il, is the self-proclaimed "Dear Leader." Kinder and gentler, I guess.

Second, why on Earth would a United States Senator use the term Kim Jong-Il demands his oppressed subjects use when referring to him? Would the good senator have talked about Adolph Hitler by using the term "Mein Fuhrer"?

And third, I cannot believe that an American senator would actually propose that we should tell such a bloody nutcase that their regime is safe. Have a nice long, sick, reign of killing, nuclear missiles, kidnapping, and starvation.

So anyone on the other side of the aisle want to top this one?