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Tom Lantos channels Rudy Giuliani [e.a.]:

Dutch lawmakers who recently visited the Guantanamo Bay military prison said they were offended by a testy exchange in Washington with a senior congressional Democrat. The lawmakers said that Rep. Tom Lantos (Calif.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told them that “Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay.” Lantos, a Holocaust survivor, was responding to arguments that the United States should shut down the U.S. prison in Cuba, the lawmakers said. “You have to help us [in Afghanistan] because if it was not for us you would now be a province of Nazi Germany,” …

Plainspokenness seems to be catching on.