Rep. Allen West Continues Dropping Inappropriate Holocaust References

NJDC — May 7, 2012 – 4:52 pm | Abusive Holocaust Rhetoric | Republicans Comments (1) Add a comment

Representative Allen West (R-FL) used yet another inappropriate Holocaust reference during a radio appearance today. According to Right Wing Watch, this exchange took place during Frank Gaffney’s “Secure Freedom Radio” show:

Gaffney: Obama made a kind of, well, I think of it as a whistle-stop campaign appearance in Afghanistan to sign and obviously get our attention towards the ten year security agreement with the Afghans. Does that give you confidence that in fact we’re going to maintain the pressure on the enemy there that we’ve felt necessary to this point or are we in fact really just trying to paper over the impending surrender of the place to the Taliban?

West: I think that right now no one is really sure, Frank. I look at what happened between President Obama and President Karzai as a 1930s, Chamberlain, Hitler moment. There is not going to be peace in our time.

As we have said previously when West has made similar comments, invoking the Holocaust to make a political point is never acceptable. Period. 

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