Rumsfeld compares war critics to appeasers

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said that critics of the war in Iraq and the campaign against terrorist groups "seem not to have learned history's lessons" and compared them to those in the 1930s who advocated appeasing Nazi Germany.

In a speech Tuesday to thousands of veterans at the American Legion's annual convention here, Rumsfeld sharpened his rebuttal of critics of the Bush administration's Iraq strategy, some of whom have called for phased withdrawal of U.S. forces or partitioning of the country.