06/21/2003 Archived Entry: "An idiotarian from North Carolina"

Peter Eichenberger wrote this appallingly stupid article published in this local paper. By far the worst statement made in the article is this:

Q: What is the number of deaths of Iraqi children that was "worth it" to Madeleine Albright?
A: 500,000 due to the United States' systematic destruction of Iraq's water systems. Heck, even the Nazis didn't stoop that low.

What could possibly possess someone to say that? Is it that he thinks the Nazis murdered fewer than 500,000 children? Or that the lives of Jewish children are worth less than Iraqi children? Or that murdering children by taking them out into the woods and shooting them is morally superior to bombing a water supply in an attempt to win a war against an evil dictator? Or was he not thinking of the actual Nazis, but rather of a cartoonish sort of evil men that can be used as an example without any implications?