As I said, I'm not certain this is the speech referenced, and I'm not sure the transcript is accurate. After a quick skim, Howlin' Don Rumsfeld moves from discussing fascist appeasers in the U.S. Senate and immediately asks one of his patented rhetorical questions:
# With the growing lethality and availability of weapons, can we truly afford to believe that somehow vicious extremists can be appeased?
So we have appeasement of Hitler paired up with appeasement of terrorists. He also carelessly mixes up the viewpoint that the terror fight is about intel and law enforcement with the Blame America First crowd; the former is a legitimate strategy, the latter is not.
Anyway, if time permits I'll dig around for some more transcripts, since this one doesn't seem to be an exact match. I note with deep amusement that he's back to blaming the media for the Iraq war's low polls.
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