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Lately we're being told that it's either (a) inappropriate or (b) untrue to refer to Bush's illegitimate junta as Nazi, neo-Nazi or neofascist. Because, you know, you're not necessarily a Nazi just because you seize power like one, take advantage of a national Reichstag Fire-like tragedy like one, build concentration and death camps like one, start unprovoked wars like one, Red-bait your liberal opponents like one or create a national security apparatus that behaves like something a Nazi would create and even has a Nazi-sounding name. All of those people who see a little Adolf in the not-so-bright eyes of America's homeland-grown despot are just imagining things.
Me, I'm catching it for this week's cartoon for daring to suggest that, well--you know.
Of course, there are differences. Hitler, for example, was legally elected. And he had a plan--not one that I like, but a plan--for the period after the war.
I'll be happy to stop comparing Bush to Hitler when he stops acting like him.
And yet there are still those who refuse to accept the figures when facts show just how many innocent people of a particular persuasion were condemned to concentration camps and sent to an early grave; a mass grave.Then he goes on about how at least Hitler was elected, and how Bush likes nothing better than killing brown people:
George Bush actually came to power in what many might argue to be a less democratic way than Adolf Hitler. ... Bush may even have an ideology based on the "blonde haired, blue eyed, white super-race." I say this because since squatting in the White House, he has been intent on bombing other far-away, dark-skinned people of Middle Eastern countries, as part of his "War on Terror," which is really a War of Terror.He also informs us that the National Rifle Association is a splinter group of the Ku Klux Klan. That must explain all those burning crosses seen so regularly in Charlton Heston's garden.
"Some people in other countries are comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler because of his warmongering," a Boondocks character says of the president. "That's preposterous; even I wouldn't compare him to Hitler," another responded. "I mean, Hitler was democratically elected. Wasn't he?" ...
Don't get her started on the recent [2004] presidential election. "People don't realize that by voting Republican, they voted against themselves," she says. Of Iraq in particular, she adds, "I worry that some people are entertained by the idea of this war. They don't know anything about the Iraqis, but they're angry and frustrated in their own lives. It's like Germany, before Hitler took over. The economy was bad and people felt kicked around. They looked for a scapegoat. Now we've got a new bunch of Hitlers."There are people who are entertained by the idea of the Iraq war? Sadly, Linda doesn't give us any specific examples of who she means.
Oh now I see...
It's going a bit far to compare the Bush of 2003 to the Hitler of 1933. Bush simply is not the orator that Hitler was. But comparisons of the Bush Administration's fear mongering tactics to those practiced so successfully and with such terrible results by HItler and Goebbels on the German people and their Weimar Republic are not at all out of line.In "Bush and Hitler...Compare and Contrast" on July 18, 2003, in response to criticism of his February article:
So far, for example, while he has rounded up some Arab and Muslim men purely because of their ethnicity or religion, Bush has not started gassing them--at least not yet. What I did say, however [is] that some of the tactics of the Bush administration resemble those of Hitler and his Brownshirts. I would go further and add that Bush's attorney general, John Ashcroft, a man who has pointedly praised the old Confederacy, would probably feel quite comfortable in brown with a hakenkreuz tacked to his sleeve.In "RNC Plays the Hitler Card - MoveOn Shouldn't Apologize for Those Ads" on January 6, 2004, talking about the MoveOn ads:
[... warmongering ... agressive nationalism ... Guantanemo Bay as a concentration camp ...]
So let's make ourselves clear here. George Bush is not Hitler. Yet. America is not a fascist state. Yet.
... The truth is that the two ads are pretty darned good. [...] The Bush administration deliberately stoked public fears after 9/11--just as the Nazi's used the Reichstag Fire--to win support for an illegal, unprovoked invasion of Iraq, an act of aggression which, at the Nuremberg Trials, was specifically determined to be a war crime. The ad might have added that the "shock and awe" terror campaign that was the centerpiece of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, was also by definition a war crime, since its target was the Iraqi public. [...] President Bush did in fact publicly claim divine instruction to have been behind his decisions to invade Afghanistan and later Iraq--a rather scary example, if he is being sincere, of the very kind of megalomania that characterized Hitler. [...] Were these two ads unfair to either Bush or to the memory of the Holocaust? Hardly. [...] Are they saying that Bush is Hitler? Only to the most simplistic or willfully unimaginative of viewers--that is to say the RNC poobahs. What they are saying is that the same technique used by Hitler and his National Socialist brownshirts to whip up nationalist fervor in Germany in the early and mid 1930s is being employed today by the Bush Administration and the Republican Party, and to the same end--to get the American public to acquiesce in surrendering its democratic rights, to accept one-party rule, and to agree to a national policy of permanent war in the name of American global hegemony. ...
The White House is deeply offended (officially at least) by those who note the chilling parallel between Nazi foreign policy and the Bush-Wolfowitz doctrine of "preemptive" (really preventive) war currently being enacted in Iraq. Remembering that all versions of racist imperialism are not the same, then, let us note one key difference between the way the Bush gang is proceeding and how Adolf Hitler's Third Reich would have conquered Baghdad.The Nazis, we can be sure, would have made special provision to safeguard, and then of course appropriate, the monumental treasures of Mesopotamia and ancient Sumerian civilization. ...
[the North American programme] is infinitely more brutal in its simple and extreme unilateral conception, and it is close to the Nazi programme, which was also based on the principle of a Master Race. ... Finally, Washington will not even attempt to support its real allies, something which always means knowing how to make concessions. Fake governments, like that of Karzai in Afghanistan, will manage things better as long as military power supports a belief in the "invincibility" of the US. Hitler did not think any differently. ... The militarist programme adopted by the United States now threatens all peoples. It is the expression of the logic adopted by Adolf Hitler -- to change social and economic relations by military force in favour of the "Master Race" of the day. ...That's, erm... civil.
Just as Hitler was installed (but not elected by the German people) as the Feuhrer by the Nazi party, so George W. Bush was installed as President of the United States by a conservative Supreme Court. In both cases, governments used "national security" as an excuse to launch an assault on democratic freedoms. While "lebensraum" was a rallying cry for Hitler, Bush's "evil axis," referring to North Korea, Iran and Iraq, was supposed to generate patriotic "no-think" here in the USA.Iver Bogen is also published at the Duluth Reader Weekly.Just as Hitler detached himself from the League of Nations, George W. has been assuming a more insular position internationally. ... Just as the burning of the Reichstag provided the Nazi party with the opportunity for shredding the Weimar Constitution, so did the attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11/01 provide the Republican administration (Cheney/Ashcroft/Rumsfeld) with the rationale for abolishing the freedoms granted to all citizens in the American Constitution. ...
Even Adolf Hitler came to power through the democratic system in Germany, whereas Bush, the current leader of the democratic block came to power illegitimately according to many prominent Americans. Never mind the 'small' difference since they both have a lot in common.Jihad Watch has more about Mr Zakaria, including his admiration of the repellant Zundel.Adolf Hitler claimed to have launched a 'defensive' war against the Jews, Slavs and the rest of Europe to protect the German race. Similarly Bush has waged the same 'defensive' war against the Islamic world and anyone else that does not to conform to the US dictates. ... Hitler claimed the supremacy of the Aryan race, Bush calls for the supremacy of US democracy run by its Multinationals, as exemplified by Paul Bremer of Iraq with the likes of Halliburton and Bechtel.
Adolf had the Gestapo; Bush has the FBI and CIA, who are far more efficient with killings, kidnapping, torture and now arbitrary imprisonment without charge or legal representation. ... There are 'Arabs' and 'Muslims' campaigning and raising funds along with the Zionist camp to re-elect Bush. They are staunch supporter of US democracy and a believer in Adolf Bush. ...
September 2004 update: he's done it again.In fact, several disturbing analogies exist between George W. Bush and history's most infamous fascist, Adolph Hitler: Both men assumed power in defiance of the will of the majority; both men used "great lies" to pursue their warmongering agendas; both men preyed upon humanity's basest instincts to disseminate those "great lies"; both men were appeased by the British government, Hitler through Neville Chamberlain and Bush through Tony Blair; both men were willing to use national tragedies to justify the destruction of civil liberties, Hitler through the burning of the Reichstag and Bush through the September 11th terrorist attacks; both men were/are suspected of either participating in, or ignoring warnings about the imminence of, these tragedies in order to enhance their political stature and power; both men [exploit(ed)] a culture of death for political self-aggrandizement, Hitler through his well-publicized genocide campaigns, and Bush who, while governor of Texas, routinely denied DNA tests to death row inmates, even though such tests could prevent wrongful executions; both men were willing to appeal to racism, Hitler through his quest for a "master race," and Bush through his condemnation of affirmative action policies, which primarily benefit racial minorities. [...] both men reveled in war and exploited the military to satiate their personal ambitions and vendettas; both men used war to enrich their political cronies; both men demonstrated contempt for international law and the concerns of the world community; and both men believed they were/are on some holy crusade inspired by a "divine province" that placed them into power. [...]
The matter at hand is the comparison between Adolf Hitler and George Bush....because, you know, Nazism's genetic...
There are obvious differences. The first being that the war criminal, the murderer of the Jewish and Soviet peoples, won a resounding victory in the German elections, while the war criminal and murderer of the Iraqi people reached power fraudulently, in the biggest electoral scandal in US history.
From the theoretical point of view, the comparison between Bush and Hitler is correct. The scientists have described Nazism as a terrorist dictatorship of corporate expansionism. Bush, by putting himself beyond the law and invading a defenceless nation which it had not attacked in order to take over its oil wealth, the second largest on the planet, and then stating that other oil-producing nations will follow, comes close to the definition of a corporate terrorist dictatorship. Even though he may not like to admit it.
George Bush is a Nazi in his genes. ...
...The American Burning of the Reichstag of September 11 gave George Bush the chance of a lifetime. The worst electoral victory of a US president since 1876 had turned into the best historical opportunity for a warmonger to impose a new US order on the world.
As in Hitler's case, the first thing he did was to surround himself with a clique of con artists such as himself, men obsessed with the intimidating power of force. ...
Adolf Hitler would be proud that an American President is emulating him in so many ways. Hitler, it will be remembered, routinely ignored his military, other world leaders, and the clergy ...Passing swiftly on to:
War making and saber rattling is not the only similarity of Bush to Hitler. The German leader, along with Joseph Goebbels, was also a master of propaganda. ...Bush uses force and the media. So did Hitler. Ergo, Bush is like Hitler.
The U.S. military [are being deployed overseas, which] permits the Bush regime to seize more and more constitutional rights of the American people without the possibility of substantial resistance. The only people who are currently defenseless in the world today are the American people--they are vulnerable to the machinations of their own illegal regime. [...] Like Roman Caesars Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, and Claudius, and Napoleon Bonaparte, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini before him, Bush's fanaticism threatens to plunge the world into endless war and bring to an ignoble close America's 227-year democratic run. ...Moving on to:
Anyone who closely examines Patriot II will realize that the document represents the same sort of power grab by Hitler after the Reichstag Fire of 1933. Using the pretext that the Reichstag was burned down by Communists (when, in fact, it was engineered by Nazis), Hitler pushed through the "Decree by the Reich President for the Defense of People and State." The Reichstag Fire Decree, intended only as a "temporary" measure, permitted Hitler and his regime to jail political opponents at will, bypass the judicial system, and eventually force millions of people into concentration camps.And ending with what looks like a call to the army and militias to overthrow the government:
Like the Reichstag Fire Decree, there is nothing really temporary with either Patriot I or II. ...
A former British Lieutenant Colonel named George Washington once turned the weapons of his army of rebels against his former masters,[...]
And just in case the fascists in control of our government contend that the Founding Fathers were part of another era, let us remember some more recent quotes:
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."--Abraham Lincoln. [...]
From our Founders to our more recent leaders we have been given the answer to how best deal with the gravest constitutional dilemma that has ever befallen the United States of America. Our modern militia, whose forbearers defended us from the British, pro-slavery secessionists, the Germans, and the Soviet Union, must now defend us once again against all enemies, not foreign but domestic
[...] This list [of perceived misdeeds], while far from being complete, represents a very clear picture of what the Bush administration and Republican agenda is all about. It is about helping the oil industry, large conglomerates, and the wealthy. It is about a never-ending war against terrorism. It is about showing contempt for the American citizens. It is about developing a dictatorship, in much the same manner as that used by Adolf Hitler, through propaganda and fear.He doesn't mention the possibility that Americans might be broadly approving of Bush's policies and reasonably knowledgeable and open-eyed.
I certainly support ending terrorism, but I believe terrorism is simply being used by this Administration in much the same manner as Hitler used it to gain control and maintain a hold on the people of Germany. [...]
Bush continues to have rather high approval ratings, as reported by the media. Is this an indictment of the American people's lack of political knowledge and their blind support of the fight against terrorism? Or is this another example of being controlled by the mainstream media? [...] Or does it show how instilling fear into the people is being successful, much as it was for the Nazis in Germany?
While selling his attack on Iraq, Bush often draws an analogy with Hitler's Germany. He likens the threat posed to the world by Saddam today to the threat posed by Hitler in the mid 30s. The point that he tries to make is that it would cost the world much more to tackle Saddam later if he is not tackled now [...]. While the analogy between Saddam and Hitler may be laughable ......Saddam Hussein is nothing like Hitler, but...
... it is instructive, though frightening, to draw an analogy between Bush and Hitler and the threats posed by them to other nations and to world peace.Yes, that's right. He's saying that Saddam's nothing like Hitler, but Bush is like him. The rest of the article is a fairly standard rant.
Phase 1, Seizure of Power ... appointed president ... Phase 2, An Atrocity to Subdue the People ... The Reichstag Fire / September 11, 2001 ... Phase 3, The Leader Destroys Elections and Appoints Himself Dictator ... March 24, 1933 The Enabling Act / November, 2002 Homeland Security Act ... Secret US Police Concentration Camps etc...[Also here].
In the build up to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, comparisons made between Saddam Hussein and Adolf Hitler were effectively exploited as part of the propaganda arsenal promulgated by the spin doctors in Washington to convince the populace of the threat that Saddam presents (presented?) to world peace. ... In the wake of the blitzkrieg against Iraq, a more apt comparison to fascism, many would feel, is one that involves the American regime of George W. Bush... undemocratic assumption of power ... enabling acts ... totalitarianism ... ultra-right vanguard etc ...
Gonzalez compared the type of government in the United States to fascism. He also said that the little opposition of U.S. citizens to the policies of President George W. Bush is not dissimilar to the rise of Adolf Hitler in World War II.And in October, 'Daily Collegian' columnist Johnny Donaldson was engaging in political analysis:
Dubya is one of the single most evil men roaming free right now, a man whose deviousness and maliciousness is equaled by only a few. Bush is a creature on the same level as bin Laden or, more appropriately, Hitler. He is a lying fascist who uses the myopic fervor of patriotism and the calculated lying of propaganda to exert his will on a nation and lead its people down the rabbit hole of war and terror. ...Oh come on, Johnny - stop holding back and tell us how you really feel.
[violent protest] is bad. It is not the time nor place for violence. All the protests in NYC should be non-violent. Still, I understand the perpetrators feelings. [Republican convention] delegates are supporting the closest thing America's seen to Hitler since Adams passed the sedition acts. Michael Moore made a big splash at the Republican Hitler-fest. ... And under [Laura Bush's] friendly texas smile she's a scorpion sleeping with the 21st century's Hitler."And on September 1st:
I thought I was going overboard, using the Nazi word too much. Then Zell Miller gave his talk and I realized that the Bush team acts like Nazis, they walk the path the Nazis walked, but Zell Miller, he talks like a nazi, like a goosestepping gestapo leader. He's the kind of guy who could send Jews and Muslims alike to gas chambers, or maybe they'd use laser or nuclear "star-wars" ovens of genocide this time around.Update, 20 November 2004: I haven't read it yet, but to judge from the headline I imagine "Bush Rats Jumping Ship,to Be Replaced By Even Worse, Ebola-Toxic Next Generation Republicanazis" is more of the same.
... As for Mr Giuliani, his likening of Mr Bush to Sir Winston Churchill and Mr Ronald Reagan seems an odd mixture. Sir Winston did at least call for opposition to the one man on whom Mr Bush so closely models his actions, i.e. Mr Adolf Hitler, which thus makes this a most strange comparison. On the other hand, we can see that Mr Reagan may, in his later days, have been almost as "intellectually challenged" as Mr George W. Bush. ...Nice touch, mentioning Reagan's Alzheimer's disease like that, heh? Really classy.
... When was the last time a Western nation had a leader so obsessed with God and claiming God was on our side? If you answered Adolph Hitler and Nazi Germany, you're correct ... Both Bush and Hitler believe that they were chosen by God to lead their nations... Like Bush-ites, Hitler was fond of invoking the Ten Commandments as the foundation of Nazi Germany... But if you ever wondered where Bush got his idea for so-called "faith-based initiatives" you need only consult Hitler's January 30, 1939 speech to the Reichstag ...
As I watched Tuesday night's network coverage of the unrelenting political propaganda hour known as the Republican National Convention, the first thought that came to mind was of old newsreels of those self-congratulatory Nazi rallies held in Germany during the reign of Adolf Hitler. ...Riiiight. I find all that sort of rah-rah-woo-woo flag-waving a bit tedious too, but wouldn't go that far.
America will again be asked to bow at the feet of this small man with big ideas [Bush]. ... We must study the nemesis of France and how Napoleon was felled before understanding the damage a tyrant does to a nation and society. We must examine the ruthless and dictatorial rise of yet another of the three small men—one whose name is not spoken out of fear of reprisal, but his name was Adolf. We must examine history, in order to not repeat it, and to understand the mesmerism of a public to a murderous scheme. Three small men who wanted to conquer . . . and vanquish. ...
The first, irrefutable charge of which George W. Bush stands guilty is that, like Adolph Hitler, he planned and carried out a war of aggression against Iraq - this being the supreme violation of international law.Oddly enough, even if he hadn't invaded Iraq Bush would still have been found guilty by the tribunal because "The role of sanctions was shown to cause destruction of the Iraqi infrastructure". Those sanctions being the only alternative to invasion.
America is sick, just as Germany was sick under Nazism, and Russia was sick under Stalinism and any other nation or people thus afflicted with fanatical rulers, a corrupted legislative body and a compliant press were sick ... Hitler's Germany smacked into History like a frog flung -– splat! -- against a wall. So seems to be the course of the American Republic, if it still is a republic. ... Everything you've ever read about the Nazis under Hitler, the Soviets under Stalin, the Chinese under Mao, the French under Napoleon, about any tyranny that has ever oppressed people of the past or present is happening here now, on your dime, your body bag, your conscience. ...
Bush is also getting incredibly more hostile towards his critics, calling them enemies of the state. Hitler and Stalin shared this same type of rabid hatred towards people who did not agree with them.Of course, Pravda's legal editor would agree.
"Pre-emptive attack" means attacking someone before they attack you. When the Bush gang use it, they like to compare themselves with Churchillian types who opposed Europe's appeasers of German ambitions in the 1930s. This is both false and dishonest; for it is they who bear a likeness to the imperial planners of the Third Reich.In case you missed that here he is again, in the Mirror, in January 2003:
[Tony Blair] is the embodiment of the most dangerous appeasement humanity has known since the 1930s. The current American elite is the Third Reich of our times, although this distinction ought not to let us forget that they have merely accelerated more than half a century of unrelenting American state terrorism...
This must be how the Germans feltPoetry of such quality has inspired me to write my own:
Watching Hitler rise to power.
Hopelessness, frustration, depression, anger
Increasing steadily by the hour.
[...]
When comparing Bush with Hitler,
Surprise! There’s lots of overlapping.
Both are fascist right-wing conservatives
Who sadly caught their countries napping.
[...]
So dig in deep for four more years
Of the hand fear and ignorance have dealt
And, remember, as things get worse and worse,
This is how Germans must have felt.
A columnist with OpEd News,Ta-daaa!
Hotly rushed to vent his views,
He wailed and raged and gnashed his teeth,
And ranted a bit like Ken O'Keefe,
Before hiding in his attic to escape the secret police who he thought were, like, probably going to drag him away to a dissident gulag.
Worse than Watergate? Yep. Worse Yet: Worse than Hitler...and so on in a similar vein. She recently got a PhD in Germanic Studies at the University of Illinois. It would appear that neither the ability to write coherently nor a rudimentary knowledge of the Hitler era are requirements for Germanic Studies at the University of Illinois.
... A few days ago, I was saying this is worse than Watergate. Now I know, it’s much, much worse than that. It’s worse than Hitler. The Bush phenomenon is a seismic holocaustal menace to the planet. The Colossus. Celcius 3/11, the Meltdown. It is the world’s worst nightmare. Everyone who knows, that is. Everyone who has reviewed the shitpiles of evidence mounting exponentially by the nanosecond to document but one of myriad felony assaults on humanity--Air Force One slammed into the Statue of Liberty, and into the Hancock Center, and the Sears Tower, the Rocky Mountains, the Great Lakes, the Deserts of Utah and Nevada, and the Sequoia National Park to declare the death of democracy...
Asking for "really creative ads that will engage and enlighten viewers and help them understand the truth about George Bush", political campaign group MoveOn.org ran a contest for 30 second adverts from November to December 2003, inviting submissions and posting entered films on their site. Having said that "we're not going to post anything that would be inappropriate for television", two of the original 1,500 submissions which they posted were direct "Bush = Hitler" statements. Yes - there were a lot of submissions, and no - the two ads didn't make into the shortlist (they were later pulled from the site). But they were considered by someone at MoveOn as "appropriate for television". MoveOn claim they have been smeared. David M. Boje, Ph.D.'s deconstruction of the 2003 State Of The Union Address:
Bush could be compared to Hitler. His militarism embarks on a campaign of empire, world conquest and domination. In 1938, Hitler demonized Czechoslovakia, then Poland in 1939, declaring them as threats to national security. Then Hitler did preemptive strikes, invasion. Bush has targeted Iraq, Iran and North Korea, stating (2002) "The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous destructive weapons."And Dr Boje's "24 ways Bush and Hitler are too much alike for comfort":
President George W. Bush, like Adolf Hitler, came to power legally, but not democratically. [...] Hitler invoked the spectre of "the Red Menace," while Bush pronounces the spectre of the "Evil Axis." [...] The US propaganda machine requires that every American dehumanize Afghanistan, Iraq, and North Korean lives. Just like Germany, the US people are consumed by fear, brought about by the propaganda of the State and Mass Media. [...]
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"We Greeks have been through so much – dictatorships, Balkan wars, not to mention the Roman and Ottoman occupations" says a placard-carrying man who has been singing along to a traditional Greek ballad played by a nearby accordionist. "We are a small country but we have the experience to know that war is not the answer". His placard features a moustachioed Bush with the inscription "Adolf Bushler". ... "Can you really compare Bush with Hitler?" asks Vincent Moloi, my fellow filmmaker from Johannesburg. We are in Greece to shoot a documentary. "Sure, both were obsessed with their own power, and prepared to kill other nations to expand it," comes the reply.And:
Today a hundred hair stylists peer through their make-up at their unwashed countrymen on the streets, carrying yet more banners comparing Bush to Hitler and denouncing Greek hypocrisy. The creativity of the slogan-writers put even the most experienced Soweto strugglistas to shame with their range and rhythm. "Disaster! Disaster! We Wont Allow The War to Take Place Here!" shouts the animator through a megaphone. "Shame! Shame. Chania Will Never be a Base for Killing Children!" bellows the reply from a hundred perfectly aligned lungs.Yes, I can see how that degree of sloganeer creativity would put people to shame.
As dusk falls at the Suda Naval Base, these young Greeks prepare for a huge party. On the main road to the base, weaving through the hills high above the water, twenty teenagers are sitting on the white lines in the middle of the road, the words "Fuck Bush No War" sprayed in red on the tarmac.
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"George W. Bush is portayed as a new Hitler calling on the masses to use the brute power of the state to crush any dissent, be it union, media, university, or church. This parody of the Defending America is a harsh criticism of the underlying message that those who oppose defence of the American Fatherland should suffer violence..." |
I realize I am a few months behind the curve of comparing Bush to Hitler, but there is one aspect of the comparison that I don't think has been plumbed to its proper depth. No, I am not talking about the vicious attacks against dissent, the dubious means used to seize power, or the callous disregard for civil rights. Those have been given their due. Instead, now that Bush is describing himself as a "war president," I think it is appropriate to size up Bush as he compares to the Furher as commander in chief, because both serve as good examples of what happens when you hand the world's best military to a petulant egomaniac.
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... Mr Soros says a "supremacist ideology" guides the White House. He hears echoes in its rhetoric of his childhood in occupied Hungary: "When I hear Bush say, 'You’re either with us or against us,' it reminds me of the Germans." It conjures up memories, he said, of Nazi slogans on the walls, Der Feind Hort mit (The enemy is listening): "My experiences under Nazi and Soviet rule have sensitised me," he said. ...The Nazis used to have slogans on the wall saying "The enemy is listening", heh? Oooh scary. World War 2 Britain and US were festooned with posters reminding people the enemy was listening with chilling slogans like "Loose lips sink ships" and "Careless talk costs lives".
Despite Bush’s attempt to resurrect the rhetoric of World War II in his reference to the “axis of evil,” it is the US government and Bush himself who are following in the footsteps of the Nazis. One would have to go back to the diatribes of Adolf Hitler to find comparable bellicosity in the public declarations of a major world power, and comparable cynicism in the lies and provocations employed as justifications for military aggression. ... like Hitler and the Nazis, American militarism has embarked on a campaign of world conquest ... Like Hitler, Bush presents an upside-down view of the worldIn February 2002:
The language used is particularly ominous. Not since Nazi Germany—with Hitler’s demands for immediate liquidation of “the Czech problem” or “the Polish problem”—has a world power spoken in such terms, or acted with such blatant disregard for international opinion. ...In March 2003:
The White House has repeatedly employed false analogies to the 1930s to justify its policies, with ludicrous comparisons of Iraq, a weak and impoverished country, to Nazi Germany. There is a parallel to Hitler, but it involves Bush and not Saddam Hussein. ...And the next day, on Bush's pre-war speech:
Not since the 1930s, during the hey-day of the fascist regimes of Hitler and Mussolini, has the government of any major power so openly embraced war as an instrument of state policy as the Bush administration. In doing so, it has embarked upon a path that will, unless stopped, lead the world into a new epoch of imperialist barbarism and result in the deaths of hundreds of millions of people throughout the planet. ...
In the 1930s the fascist regimes in Germany and Italy walked out of the League of Nations ... This characterization of Nazi foreign policy applies fully to that of the United States today.
"Today the so-called dissidents, actually mercenaries on the payroll of the Bush's Hitler-like government, are betraying not only their homeland, but all of humanity as well..."And again in June 2004...
... Castro wore his olive-green military uniform as he spoke before a 12-meter (40-foot) likeness of Bush, also in a military uniform and daubed with a Hitler-style mustache.
Below the photo, hung near the US Interests Section in Havana, was the text: "Bush, Fascist: There Is No Aggression Cuba Cannot Resist." ...
North Korea is using The Diary of Anne Frank, the moving account of the Amsterdam schoolgirl forced into hiding from the Nazis for two years, to brainwash schoolchildren into believing that President George Bush is as evil as Hitler.
Secondary schools throughout the Stalinist state are teaching pupils that the experience of their country - which is almost completely cut off from the outside world - is directly comparable to that of the Frank family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Schools use the diaries to teach pupils about Hitler, and then teach that America is the modern equivalent of the Nazis. ...
Mirjam Bartelsman, a reporter with the [Dutch TV] Nova channel, met students who had been carefully drilled to spout hatred of "American Nazis". One pupil interviewed on camera declared: "That warmonger Bush is just as bad as Hitler. Because of him we will always live in fear of war." ...
... "Arrogance has drawn the bullying West into disgrace," the official IRNA news agency quoted Khamenei as saying, "and the president of a country which claims to support human rights and freedom speaks the same language to the people of the world as Hitler used." ...
If you liked Bush/Hitler Links, you'll love our Bush/Armageddon Links.
US policy in the George W. Bush era, is similar to the unprovoked aggression that the world observed in the days of Hitler, Napoleon, Alexander the Great, and other leaders who stepped onto the world stage with unrivaled military force. Characteristic of the Bush team's brutal cynicism is their comparison of Saddam Hussein to Hitler when they are the ones who most resemble Hitler in their power, their ruthless determination for war at all costs and their threat to world peace and security.This seems a little... odd given that the rest of the site seems to mainly consist of a heady mix of frothingly antisemitic explanations of how Hitler wasn't such a bad guy who's been smeared by the Evil Global Jewish Conspiracy. Yewgh.