Rep. King On Obama: "Hitler Actually Negotiated With The Russians" Too

Today, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) took a break from making offensive comments about Hurricane Katrina victims and gay marriage in order to attack President Obama's foreign policy.  Speaking on the House floor, King criticized Obama's decision to cancel Bush-era plans to deploy missile defense systems in the Czech Republic and Poland.  King suggested that Obama's attempt to "pacify the Russians" by canceling the program would compel an Israeli attack on Iran, before noting that "Hitler actually negotiated with the Russians" too: 

So this move that might look like it's a move to pacify the Russians might well end up being something that compels the Israelis to make a military strike [against Iran] ... There will be military action take place as a result of a pacifist action on the part of the president. This is what comes when you go to this -- they call it the Neville Chamberlain school of diplomacy or capitulation.  If you remember when he returned to Munich waving a letter that said that he'd achieved "peace in our time." Well, that peace in our time didn't last very long.  And I was thinking about the situation of how it was that Hitler actually negotiated with the Russians for a while.  It ended up with Poland being divided and a global war as a result. 

Apparently unable to choose an analogy, King went on to call Obama's policy a "chess-poker-Monopoly-Risk game." Watch it:

As President Obama made clear last week, his decision was made in accord with the "unanimous recommendations" of Defense Secretary Robert Gates and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  But more to the point, what is King talking about? Is he trying to blame the Russians -- as opposed to Hitler -- for World War II? It's probably worth mentioning that the Soviet Union fought on America's side to defeat the Nazis.   

**Update: Steve Benen adds, "So, as far as King is concerned, Obama is both Chamberlain and Hitler? For that matter, if negotiating with Russia makes one Hitler-like, what does King have to say about Reagan holding talks with Russia -- when it was the Soviet Union?"