On the Senate floor, Harry Reid refers to the Holocaust during defense of a US strike on Syria.
— Chris Moody (@moody) September 9, 2013
Harry Reid announced earlier that the Senate will vote Wednesday on whether to proceed to a final vote on a resolution approving a strike on Syria. Reid also “went there”:
"Millions and millions… were murdered by gas in Nazi death camps," Reid says, invoking holocaust, as he argues for action on #Syria
— Patricia Zengerle (@ReutersZengerle) September 9, 2013
Yes, Reid compared the situation in Syria to the Holocaust:
Reid sought to reverse the political momentum that has turned against a use-of-force resolution in recent days by warning that the United States would face future condemnation failing to act.
“Millions and millions of civilians and prisoners of war were murdered by gas in Nazi death camps, Treblink, Auschwitz. ‘Never again,’ swore the world. ‘Never again would we permit the use of these poisonous weapons of war,’” he said on the Senate floor.
Perhaps it was inevitable:
Reid is doing the full Godwin right now. #cspan2
— David Freddoso (@freddoso) September 9, 2013
The mixed messages that are being sent by those calling for a strike on Syria are baffling:
Reid playing Assad = Hitler card. Meanwhile, Kerry says response will be "incredibly small". Sure, ok.
— Drew McCoy (@_Drew_McCoy_) September 9, 2013
Tweeters tried and failed to make sense of Reid:
Harry Reid compares Syria to the Holocaust… so he's in favour of going into North Korea to destroy the concentration camps there, right?
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) September 9, 2013
https://twitter.com/EvanPokroy/status/377134693575307264
So according to Reid, our response to Hitler should have been limited strikes that have no real impact?
— (((AG))) (@AGHamilton29) September 9, 2013
https://twitter.com/JGreenDC/status/377135610483335168
https://twitter.com/czechov/status/377136458391240705
It’s amazing what difference a Democrat president makes:
Harry "The War Is Lost" Reid suddenly has an insatiable lust for battle.
— Drew McCoy (@_Drew_McCoy_) September 9, 2013
If not for that cowboy poetry reading he’s got to get to, Reid would personally lead the charge.
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