Frank Rich can be officially dismissed as a serious commentator on the war (not that he ever really credibility) after this column today.

Our humanity has been compromised by those who use Gestapo tactics in our war. The longer we stand idly by while they do so, the more we resemble those “good Germans” who professed ignorance of their own Gestapo. It’s up to us to wake up our somnambulant Congress to challenge administration policy every day. Let the war’s last supporters filibuster all night if they want to. There is nothing left to lose except whatever remains of our country’s good name.

Rich earlier notes that a term in an American document on interrogation techniques is the same as one used in a Nazi document on the same subject, thereby constituting proof that the Bush Administration is no different that the Nazi regime, and the US has become Nazi Germany.

This is the classic reductio ad Hitlerum intended to cut off all debate or discussion -- and as such, as per common application of Godwin's Law, Mr. Rich loses.

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