Senator compares Iran's Ahmadinejad to Hitler

[Ron Burgundy]

Reuters - A U.S. senator compared Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Hitler and made fun of his name on Tuesday during a congressional hearing on the U.S. strategy to end Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. senator compared Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Hitler and made fun of his name on Tuesday during a congressional hearing on the U.S. strategy to end Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program.

"Ahmadinejad -- I call him Ahmad-in-a-head -- I think he's a Hitler type of person," Ohio Republican Sen. George Voinovich (news, bio, voting record) said during a
Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.

"He has made it clear that he wants to destroy
Israel. He has made it clear he doesn't believe in the Holocaust. He's a, he's a -- we all know what he is," the senator added.

Ahmadinejad, who took office in August 2005, has issued threats to Israel, compared its offensive in Lebanon this summer to the behavior of Nazi Germany and called the Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews died, a myth.

The United States accuses Iran of pursuing nuclear weapons, of supporting terrorism and of aiding the insurgency in
Iraq. Iran says its nuclear program is to generate nuclear power.

"I don't believe that as long as he's there that we're ever going to solve Iraq," Voinovich said. "There seems to be a very deliberate, premeditated effort on their part to expand their influence in that area and this nuclear issue is just part of it."

Voinovich made his remarks shortly before
President George W. Bush delivered a speech at the U.N. General Assembly in which he said the Iranian government was using the country's resources to fund terrorism and pursue nuclear weapons.

Ahmadinejad was to address the U.N. gathering later on Tuesday.

The 70-year-old senator has challenged Bush on a number of issues. His opposition to Bush's nomination of John Bolton as U.N. ambassador last year forced the president to sidestep the congressional approval process and appoint Bolton directly.

Voinovich, who has been a U.S. senator since 1999 and was governor of Ohio from 1990 to 1998, changed his position in July and now supports Bolton's confirmation as U.S. ambassador to the
United Nations.

[SoFlaJDM]

what is he trying to do?

looks like foot in mouth syndrome struck again

[IminWonderland]

I don't know what the purpose is of comparing this guy to Hitler. Is he not evil enough on his own merit?

[JaJae]

Silly Americans... Only Bush can be compared to Hitler.

[IminWonderland]

Originally Posted by JaJae

Silly Americans... Only Bush can be compared to Hitler.

Personally I don't make that correllation.

I think he does well enough on his own to get some flack without the need to invoke "hitler" to make him seem "worse"...

[beez]

Godwin's Law applies to real life as well as USENET, IMO.