Thanks!
The links are very good and makes one think!
Jonathan
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[1]= 31 Similarities Between Hitler and President Bush
by Edward Jayne
[2]www.dissidentvoice.org
August 29, 2004
(revised from an earlier version posted March 29, 2003)
When President Bush decided to invade Iraq, his spokesmen began
comparing Saddam Hussein to Adolph Hitler, the most monstrous figure
in modern history. Everybody was therefore shocked when a high
German bureaucrat turned the tables by comparing Bush himself with
Hitler. As to be expected, she (the bureaucrat) was forced to
resign because of her extreme disrespect for an American president.
However, the resemblance sticks--there are too many similarities to be
ignored, some of which may be listed here.
Like Hitler, President Bush was not elected by a majority, but was
forced to engage in political maneuvering in order to gain office.
Like Hitler, Bush began to curtail civil liberties in response to a
well-publicized disaster, in Hitler's case the Reichstag fire, in
Bush's case the 9-11 catastrophe.
Like Hitler, Bush went on to pursue a reckless foreign policy without
the mandate of the electorate and despite the opposition of most
foreign nations.
Like Hitler, Bush has increased his popularity with conservative
voters by mounting an aggressive public relations campaign against
foreign enemies. Just as Hitler cited international communism to
justify Germany's military buildup, Bush has used Al Qaeda and the
so-called Axis of Evil to justify our current military buildup.
Paradoxically none of the nations in this axis--Iraq, Iran and North
Korea--have had anything to do with each other.
Like Hitler, Bush has promoted militarism in the midst of economic
recession (or depression as it was called during the thirties).
First he used war preparations to help subsidize defense industries
(Halliburton, Bechtel, Carlyle Group, etc.) and presumably the rest of
the economy on a trickle-down basis. Now he turns to the very same
corporations to rebuild Iraq, again without competitive bidding and at
extravagant profit levels.
Like Hitler, Bush displays great populist enthusiasm in his patriotic
speeches, but primarily serves wealthy investors who subsidize his
election campaigns and share with him their comfortable lifestyle.
As he himself jokes, he treats these individuals at the pinnacle of
our economy as his true political base.
Like Hitler, Bush envisages our nation's unique historic destiny
almost as a religious cause sanctioned by God. Just as Hitler did
for Germany, he takes pride in his providential role in spreading
his version of Americanism throughout the entire world.
Like Hitler, Bush promotes a future world order that guarantees his
own nation's hegemonic supremacy rather than cooperative harmony under
the authority of the United Nations (or League of Nations).
Like Hitler, Bush quickly makes and breaks diplomatic ties, and he
offers generous promises that he soon abandons, as in the cases of
Mexico, Russia, Afghanistan, and even New York City. The same goes
for U.S. domestic programs. Once Bush was elected, many leaders of
these programs learned to dread his making any kind of an appearance
to praise their success, since this was almost inevitably followed by
severe cuts in their budgets.
Like Hitler, Bush scraps international treaties, most notably the
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, the Biological Weapons Convention, the
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the Convention on the Prohibition of
Land Mines, the Chemical Weapons Convention, the Kyoto Global Warming
Accord, and the International Criminal Court.
Like Hitler, Bush repeats lies often enough that they come to be
accepted as the truth. Bush and his spokesmen argued, for example,
that they had taken every measure possible to avoid war, than an
invasion of Iraq would diminish (not intensify) the terrorist threat
against the U.S., that Iraq was linked with Al Qaeda, and that nothing
whatsoever had been achieved by U.N. inspectors to warrant the
postponement of U.S. invasion plans. All of this was false. They
also insisted that Iraq hid numerous weapons it did not possess since
the mid-190s, and they refused to acknowledge the absence of a nuclear
weapons program in Iraq since the early nineties. As perhaps to be
expected, they indignantly accused others of deception and
evasiveness.
Like Hitler, Bush incessantly shifted his arguments to justify
invading Iraq--from Iraq's WMD threat to the elimination of Saddam
Hussein, to his supposed Al Qaeda connection, to the creation of Iraqi
democracy in the Middle East as a model for neighboring states, and
back again to the WMD threat. As soon as one excuse for the war was
challenged, Bush advanced to another, but only to shift back again at
another time.
Like Hitler, Bush and his cohorts emphasize the ruthlessness of their
enemies in order to justify their own. Just as Hitler cited the
threat of communist violence to justify
