shame on you, Representative Broun

I’m no Obama supporter.  I’m no PC policeman.  But Representative Broun, the ignorance of these words is staggering:

That’s exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it’s exactly what the Soviet Union did.

Congressman, don’t go throwing statements like that around, and then expect everything to be Georgia-peachy by apologizing later.  Obama’s been soft on exactly zero Gulags in the USA, and he’s been responsible for exactly zero Jewish murders.  Since you’re apparently not up to speed on the most basic aspects of Stalin and Hitler history, then you’re welcome to say nothing at all on the subject in the future.

Obama remembers what JFK said

Excerpts from Obama’s 2/19/08 speech in Houston, quoted from the Washington Post:

But part of keeping you safe is also deploying our military wisely. And the war in Iraq was unwise.

Not a war, but a battle.

VP Wallace unaware during his Gulag visit

Vice President Henry Agard Wallace

Quoted from Anne Applebaum’s “Gulag, A History“*:

Henry Wallace, Vice President of the United States, made a trip to Kolyma in May 1944 – and never even knew that he was visiting a prison.