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Originally Posted by Mr Mephisto
I dislike Bush, but I find this tasteless.
You do everyone a disservice by comparing Bush to a Nazi.
Mr Mephisto
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Mr. Mephisto, with all due respect......you don't live here. My view is that
Bush & Co. have distorted the justification for war, and isolated the mindset of the American people from that of the rest of the world with a similar ruthless
efficiency and disregard for truthfullness and the principles of justice as Hitler
and his Nazi party did in 1939. Dazwig's mindset, to me, is evidence of Bush's
success.
Bush is, in some ways, an even more pathetic example of a leader transforming a large,and formerly democratic nation into an aggressive, rogue,
dictatorship than Hitler was, since Hitler did not have himself as a model
to learn from, and recognize as evil and immoral, and Hitler did not grow
to maturity in a country reknowned for it's bill of rights, adherence to the
tenants of international law, and an honest broker in international diplomacy.
Mr. Mephisto, given the ways Bush has changed the course and reputation
of our nation, how long, especially if you believed that he has never been
legitimately elected to the office he holds....would you resist becoming
increasingly outraged and radicalized? I will gladly suffer the criticism that
I make harsh, distasteful, and offensive statements about this dishonorable
president, if time proves that I am mistaken about his nature, and the
purpose of his regime. It is better that I attempt to incite others to watch
this man and his government more closely, and with more suspicion, now,
when there are still no barriers to discussing the comparison
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<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0316-08.htm">When Democracy Failed: The Warnings of History</a>
by Thom Hartmann
The 70th anniversary wasn't noticed in the United States, and was barely reported in the corporate media. But the Germans remembered well that fateful day seventy years ago - February 27, 1933. They commemorated the anniversary by joining in demonstrations for peace that mobilized citizens all across the world.
It started when the government, in the midst of a worldwide economic crisis, received reports of an imminent terrorist attack. A foreign ideologue had launched feeble attacks on a few famous buildings, but the media largely ignored his relatively small efforts. The intelligence services knew, however, that the odds were he would eventually succeed. (Historians are still arguing whether or not rogue elements in the intelligence service helped the terrorist; the most recent research implies they did not.)
But the warnings of investigators were ignored at the highest levels, in part because the government was distracted; the man who claimed to be the nation's leader had not been elected by a majority vote and the majority of citizens claimed he had no right to the powers he coveted. He was a simpleton, some said, a cartoon character of a man who saw things in black-and-white terms and didn't have the intellect to understand the subtleties of running a nation in a complex and internationalist world. His coarse use of language - reflecting his political roots in a southernmost state - and his simplistic and often-inflammatory nationalistic rhetoric offended the aristocrats, foreign leaders, and the well-educated elite in the government and media. And, as a young man, he'd joined a secret society with an occult-sounding name and bizarre initiation rituals that involved skulls and human bones..........
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