Chicago Sun-Times - Today many Americans celebrate a ''strong'' leader who, like Woodrow Wilson, never wavers, never apologizes, never admits a mistake, never changes his mind, a leader with a firm ''Christian'' faith in his own righteousness. These Americans are delighted that he ignores the rest of the world and punishes the World Trade Center terrorism in Iraq. Mr. Bush is our kind of guy.
He is not another Hitler. Yet there is a certain parallelism. They have in common a demagogic appeal to the worst side of a country's heritage in a crisis. Bush is doubtless sincere in his vision of what is best for America. So too was Hitler. The crew around the president -- Donald Rumsfeld, John Ashhahahahaha, Karl Rove, the ''neo-cons'' like Paul Wolfowitz -- are not as crazy perhaps as Himmler and Goering and Goebbels. Yet like them, they are practitioners of the Big Lie -- weapons of mass destruction, Iraq democracy, only a few ''bad apples.''
Hitler's war was quantitatively different from the Iraq war, but qualitatively both were foolish, self-destructive and criminally unjust. This is a time of great peril in American history because a phony patriotism and an America-worshipping religion threaten the authentic American genius of tolerance and respect for other people.
What's funny is how these republican tools get all fired up about a guy who wants to expand police power against american citizens, shut down their websites and put them in a penitentiary. Off the books and without a lawyer.
the difference between bush and hitler is that hitler was perpously stupid and racist, george w. bush is naturally stupid and he should have never won the 2000 election. despite my personal opinion they do have similar qualities.
It never ceases to me how much democrats bitch about the president but when they get their chance, they completely fuck up. Face it, if Slick Willie had kept it in his pants, you would probably never have had to worry about Bush.
no, I think he's comparing the two because of Bush's push to suspend the Geneva Convention and Habeas Corpus. In other words, he wants to be able to put american citizens in jail without giving them access to a lawyer, without telling them or their families what they're charged with, and for an indefinite period. He also wants to be able to wiretap your house and phone lines without a warrant from a judge.
Thankfully, the Supreme Court hasn't become totally conservative (ie stupid) and they put a stop to it yesterday 8-1
but you keep voting for him boy!! You guys are soooo much smarter than us liberals eh?
Originally posted by boobmaster It never ceases to me how much democrats bitch about the president but when they get their chance, they completely fuck up. Face it, if Slick Willie had kept it in his pants, you would probably never have had to worry about Bush.
oh yeah, we fuck up all right. We balanced the budget and eliminated the deficit, brought peace to Ireland and nearly Israel and had the economy running at hyperspeed. We were loved and respected nearly the whole world over.
but Bush has done SO much better than Clinton eh?
It never ceases to amaze me how ignorant someone can be who only gets his news thru AM radio.
Originally posted by boobmaster It never ceases to me how much democrats bitch about the president but when they get their chance, they completely fuck up. Face it, if Slick Willie had kept it in his pants, you would probably never have had to worry about Bush.
please tell us that you are not this dumb and you are only kidding
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