I think the comaprison you make is weak
And the 'distraction' of the right would go away as soon as the leftists stop making the baseless and false comparison. There will be no freebies on this, MA. If someone wants to drag up Hitler to put down Pres. Bush, they deserve the negative attention they get.
As to the comparison to dui, I think the more useful comparison would be to think in terms of times of illness vs. times of health. We have faced the illness of war many times, and the symptoms and cures being experienced and employed today are not much different, and in many ways much milder, than those used in the past.
Ed