What’s to Debate?
Michelle reports that Rep. Tom Lantos (D-SanFranSSR) told Europe to fold it five ways and stick it where the sun don’t shine, or words to that effect.
The lawmakers said that Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told them that “Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay.”
Lantos, a Holocaust survivor, was responding to arguments that the United States should shut down the prison, located on a U.S. naval base in Cuba, the lawmakers said.…
You have to help us, because if it was not for us you would now be a province of Nazi Germany,” Lantos said, according to the Dutch lawmakers.
“The comments killed the debate,” said Harry van Bommel, a member of the Socialist Party. “It was insulting and counterproductive.”
I’ve admired Lantos and decried Lantos. But don’t get him started on the Holocaust. It nearly finished him.