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Originally Posted by Thunderball

Right or wrong, any politician with half a brain knows there's a few words that begin with the letter "n" to steer clear of, and "Nazi" is one of them. Especially if it, in any way, cheapens the loss of life from World War 2. It just comes off as, appeasing them is "better" than the environment policy. I really don't care what she meant (even if she meant that its simply a massive government blunder), that's how its going to come across and it was just ridiculous. Especially ridiculous coming from a lawyer like May.

I don't see how May's comments 'cheapened the loss of life from World War 2'. She's saying Harper is appeasing the issue of Global Warming by not acting strongly to combat it. She compared it to the most powerful appeasement example in history. I don't see why that is completely invalid and wrong... from her point of view, these 2 instance may be historically parallel. She didn't call Harper a Nazi, and she's not suggesting the Conservatives are going to kill millions of people.

In an interview Tuesday, May said the tempest over her weekend remarks to a church group were being both misrepresented and overblown.
May explained that the controversial quote attributed to her in news reports was actually her repeating the comments of a British journalist and environmental writer, George Monbiot.
Monbiot had told a conference on Saturday that there is a "new axis of evil" on climate change, naming U.S. President George Bush, Australian Prime Minister John Howard and Harper as the offending trio.
According to May, who says she took notes, Monbiot called the three "more culpable in the eyes of history than (former British prime minister) Neville Chamberlain's attempt to appease the Nazis."
May says she repeated Monbiot's opinion on Sunday when she spoke to a church group in London, Ont., at the invitation of the local Liberal MP who had defeated her there in a fall federal byelection.
The point, May said Tuesday, is that Monbiot was comparing the moral failure of meeting the targets of the Kyoto protocol on greenhouse gas emissions with Chamberlain's failure to appreciate the dangers of Nazi Germany.

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