The odiousness of the distorted Godwin's Law

(updated below - Update II)

Responding to the neocon objections to my post on the universality of war-justifying propaganda, Kevin Drum writes that it's "time to repeal Godwin's Law" -- at least the distorted version which purports to prohibit all comparisons to German crimes -- labeling it an "an endlessly tiresome way of feigning moral indignation."  Kevin adds:  "WWII analogies are extremely useful because they're familiar to almost everyone."  I agree:  the very notion that a ...