“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."
...Disturbing comparisons to be made between Bush and Hitler…
1. In his first term, President George W. Bush, like Adolf Hitler, came to power legally, but not democratically. The majority of Americans and the majority of Germans did not elect either leader. Both were appointed. No one expected either one to rise to power.
2. Both are fundamentalist Christians. The problem for both these fervent Christians was how to keep power. Both Hitler and Bush court the conservative Christian right, and attempt to and justify their acts of aggression by transforming their cause into a holy war.
3. The answer for both, concerning how to consolidate power, and keep opposition at bay, is the same --declare war -- find weaker nations that can be enemies of the people -- subvert the free press into a propaganda machine. Hitler invoked the spectre of "the Red Menace," while Bush pronounces the spectre of the “Evil Axis” or “terrorist states” These spectres taint any dissenter with the red or evil brush. The US propaganda machine requires that every American dehumanize those deemed as “terrorists”. Just like Germany, the US people are consumed by fear, brought about by the propaganda of the State and Mass Media. America is going to war, because George W. Bush wants a legacy as being a great American War President. Bush is a fabrication of his own egomania, a will to power, a desire to write his own testimony.
4. Like Hitler, Bush weaves white lies into his speeches; the obedient corporate media repeats them over and over, while the alternative media asks where is the proof of such accusations? Bush Sr. did the same; a Kuwaiti woman testified before Congress that she saw Iraqi soldiers tear Kuwaiti babies from incubators. After the 1st Gulf War, we learned she was the daughter of a Kuwaiti Ambassador to the U.S. and that her story was a lie (prwatch.org). The point is that there is no proof; just a lie repeated until the masses believe it to be so true that checking for facts is unnecessary. Several examples: First, were there weapons of mass destruction?; there was no proof of massed chemical, nuclear, and bio weapons stockpiled to be used against the U.S. – America is the only country that believes the propaganda. Second, there is no proof that even if there were such weapons, that there was the capability or intent to use them. Third, there is no proven link between Al Qaeda and Iraq. The point is not that there is no proof, but that the American public is not demanding any.
5. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.” Being silent in the midst of an unjust war is appalling because the dictator consolidates power, then dissent itself becomes dangerous. There is little opposition, and what little there is, is not widely reported, so it appears that there is no Peace movement at all in the U.S. Bush sent the U.S. military to further destroy Afghanistan without any apparent opposition, and has now annihilated Iraq, again without noticeable opposition. Of course, there is opposition in every city across America, but it goes under-reported, so it does not exist in the minds of the masses. The polls report that opposition is much more widespread in other countries.
6. Both Hitler and Bush lumped all liberals together and called anything they say “unpatriotic.” Like Hitler, Bush is pushing one war policy after another through the houses of government, and then both sought appeals for international support. The strategy is working. Like Hitler, Bush squashes dissent. Hitler rounded up activists, and then had them killed; that has not happened in the U.S., though many a foreigner or anyone suspected as being a threat is rounded up.
7. Like Hitler, Bush Sr. and now Bush Jr. have dismantled worker protections. Americans, like Germans before WWII are putting in more hours for less pay. America has pursued a strategy of outsourcing to Third World countries for jobs as a way to keep unions powerless. Hitler also trashed trade unions. Like the Democrats, Germany’s Social Democrats were afraid to organize oppositions to their leader’s initiatives. Both the Democrats and the Social Democrats, sat back, and were overwhelmed by the opposition party, who was more aggressive and fanatical. This is coupled with a series of appointees that are loyal to the leader’s agenda.
8. To send a democracy into war, Hitler, like Bush whips up hatred, fear, and bloodlust. The propaganda is so transparent, one would think no intelligent being would find it credible. Like Hitler, Bush demonizes Afghanistan, then Iraq as threats to U.S. national security, before invading them. Hitler demonized the "reds" and sent provocateurs to orchestrate a staged act of "terrorism."
Bush Jr. and the administration may have known about the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. What little investigation there has been suggests that the US administration knew, did not respond on purpose, and has blocked any investigation of its role in 9-11. Like Hitler, Bush has rallied the Americans against the "terrorists" and passed acts similar to Hitler’s "Enabling Acts," in which the State has the right to bypass any legal due process for "suspects" who may be enemies of the State.
9. Bush behaves like Hitler, threatening weaker nations with weapons of mass destruction and total annihilation unless they do as he says -- make a regime change. Bush’s War will be fought for the same reasons Hitler invaded Poland, Czechoslovakia and Russia -- for economic hegemony, to strike fear into followers, to intimidate the world into submission, and to divert attention. Hegemony is power exercised in ways we take for granted; we do not resist what we do not notice. This occurs through demonization, to promote fear, and unite the masses behind the leader who promises protection. In 1938-1939 Hitler demonized Czechoslovakia, then Poland, as a threat to Germany’s national security, before invading each.
10. Bush follows Hitler’s strategy by turning weaker nations into threats to one that is a national superpower. Bush said in January 2002, “The United States of America will not permit the world’s most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world’s most destructive weapons.” Like Hitler, Bush uses various weapons of “mass destruction” while blaming the victim for threatening a superpower. Who has the most such weapons? In the regime changes to promote US security, the most dangerous regime on earth is the US. The US has amassed the most biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons of mass destruction, and has used them in Japan (Hiroshima, Nagasaki), in Vietnam (agent orange), and in Iraq (nuclear tipped war heads).
11. Like Hitler, Bush wants his followers to accept war as a way to divert attention from an economy slipping into recession. Following in the strategy perfected by Hitler, Bush has declared Iraq, Iran, and N. Korea as an “axis of evil,” whose provocations must be met by invasion and destruction.
12. Many believed Hitler was merely a puppet of reactionaries. Like Hitler’s Vice-Chancellor - the real power behind President Bush, is a number of men devoted to specific ideals. Both Bush and Hitler have little or no leadership credentials on their own – they need the back-up props. Like Hitler, Bush seeks to install puppet regimes in the shape of U.S ideals.
13. Like Hitler, Bush is pushing for a united World War. A doctrine of pre-emptive, unilateral attacks on other nations has been initiated.
Without democratic debate, the U.S. created, supported, and trained the Al Quaeda, Taliban, Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, and the Shah of Iran’s terror machine. The U.S. supported Saddam and Iraq with weapons to attack Iraq, knew about the attack on Kuwait, decided against that, and turned on the leader we once used to further our oil interests.
The U.S. provided Iraq with its building blocks for biological weapons of mass destruction.
Nations began to fear that Hitler would be attacking them next, and formed an alliance against the obvious aggressor. This pattern now repeats, as citizens around the world mass to oppose G8, WTO, IMF, World Bank, and their prime mover, the U.S.
14. Like Hitler, Bush is a fanatical military dictator. The government, unions, universities, opposition political party, and the corporate media are surrendering their freedom in orderto prop up his political agenda.
15. Like Hitler, Bush wants regime changes brought about by invasion, refugee (concentration) camps, and sanctions that results in the deaths of innocent men, women, and children. Bombs do not kill nearly as many millions as sanctions.
16. Like Hitler, Bush utilizes patriotism to support the incentive for war. Struck by fear and propaganda, people are eager for warrant it is not hard to earn this support.
The mainstream media is obedient and uniform. The excuse of Homeland Security people to offer their civil liberties be stripped away.
The Military, police and FBI films protesters and (such as in the case of the Republican Rally – imprisons them). Both Hitler and Bush have put in tough new aggressive laws suppressing public dissent and have revoked civil liberties.
17. The “war against ‘terror’” will cost billions and will put the U.S. into further deficit - the Soviet Union went bankrupt after its war budget consumed all also.
I'm NOT a "liberal"...okay?
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