Hitler would be very proud of his friend and partners grandson george On Jan 17, 6:51 am, "liberal mike532 !" <[email protected]> wrote: > 31 Similarities Between Hitler and President Bush > by Edward > Jaynewww.dissidentvoice.orghttp://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles3/Jayne_Hitler-Bush.htm > 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 even greater violence on the > part of Germany, the bush team justified the invasion of Iraq by > emphasizing Hussein s crimes against humanity over the past twenty- > five years. However, these crimes were for the most part committed > when Iraq was a client-ally of the U.S. Our government supplied > Hussein with illegal weapons (poison gas included), and there were > sixty U.S. advisors in Iraq when these weapons were put to use (see NY > Times, Aug. 18, 1992). U.S. aid to Iraq was actually doubled > afterwards despite disclaimers from Washington that our nation opposed > their use. President Reagan s special envoy Donald Rumsfeld > personally informed Hussein of this one hundred percent increment > during one of his two trips to Iraq at the time. He also told Hussein > not to take U.S. disclaimers seriously. > > Like Hitler, Bush takes pride in his status as a War President, and > his global ambition makes him perhaps the most dangerous president in > our nation s history, a rogue chief executive capable of waging any > number of illegal preemptive wars. He fully acknowledges his > willingness to engage in wars of choice as well as wars of > necessity. Sooner or later this choice will oblige universal > conscription as well as a full-scale war economy. > > Like Hitler, Bush continues to pursue war without cutting back on the > peacetime economy. Additional to unprecedented low interest rates > bestowed by the Federal Reserve, he has actually cut federal taxes > twice by substantial amounts, especially for the top one percent of > U.S. taxpayers, while conducting an expensive invasion and an even > more expensive occupation of a hostile nation. As a result, President > Clinton s $350 billion budget surplus has been reduced to a $450 > billion deficit, comprising an unprecedented $800 billion decline in > less than four years. At the same time the U.S. dollar has steadily > dropped against currencies of both Europe and Japan. > > Like Hitler, Bush possesses a war machine much bigger and more > effective than the military capabilities of other nations. With the > extra financing obliged by the defeat and occupation of Iraq, Bush now > relies on a defense budget well in excess of the combined military > expenditures of the rest of the world. Moreover, the $416 billion > defense package passed last week by Congress will probably need to be > supplemented before the end of the year. > > Like Hitler, bush depends on an axis of collaborative allies, which he > describes as a coalition of the willing, in order to give the > impression of a broad popular alliance. These allies include the U.K. > as compared to Mussolini s Italy, and Spain and Bulgaria, as compared > to, well, Spain and Bulgaria, both of which were aligned with Germany > during the thirties and World War II. As a result of their > cooperation, Prime Minister Blair s diplomatic reputation has been > ruined in England, and a surprising election defeat has produced an > unfriendly government in Spain. The Philippines have withdrawn their > troops from Iraq to save the life of a hostage, and other defections > can be expected in the near future. > > Like Hitler, Bush is willing to go to war over the objections of the > U.N. (League of Nations). His Iraq invasion was illegal and therefore > a war crime as explained by Articles 41 and 42 of the U.N. Charter, > which require two votes, not one, by the Security Council before any > state takes such an action. First a vote is needed to explore all > possibilities short of warfare (in Iraq s case through the use of U.N. > inspectors), and once this has been shown to be fruitless, a second > vote is needed to permit military action. U.S. and U.K. delegates at > the Security Council prevented this second vote once it was plain they > lacked a majority. This was because other nations on the Security > Council were satisfied with the findings of U.N. inspectors that no > weapons of mass destruction had yet been found. Minus this second > vote, the invasion was illegal. Bush also showed in the process that > he has no qualms about bribing, bullying, and insulting U.N. members, > even tapping their telephone lines. This was done with undecided > members of the Security Council as well as the U.N. Secretary General > when the U.S.-U.K. resolution was debated preceding the invasion. > > Like Hitler, Bush launches unilateral invasions on a supposedly > preemptive basis. Just as Hitler convinced the German public to think > of Poland as a threat to Germany in 1939 (for example in his Sept. 19 > speech), Bush wants Americans to think of Iraq as having been a > potential threat to our national security--indeed as one of the > instigators of the 9-11 attack despite a complete lack of evidence to > support this claim. > > Like Hitler, Bush depends on a military strategy that features a > shock and awe blitzkrieg beginning with devastating air strikes, > then an invasion led by heavy armored columns. > > Like Hitler, Bush is willing to inflict high levels of bloodshed > against enemy nations. Between 20,000 and (more probably) 37,000 are > now estimated to have been killed, as much as a ro-1 kill ratio > compared to the more than 900 Americans killed. In other words, for > every U.S. fatality, probably as many as forty Iraqi have died. > > Like Hitler, Bush is perfectly willing to sacrifice life as part of > his official duty. This would be indicated by the unprecedented > number of prisoners executed during his service as governor of Texas. > Under no other governor in the history of the United States were so > many killed. > > Like Hitler, Bush began warfare on a single front (Al Qaeda quartered > in Afghanistan), but then expanded it to a second front with Iraq, > only to be confronted with North Korea and Iran as potential third and > fourth fronts. Much the same thing happened to Hitler when he > advanced German military operations from Spain to Poland and France, > then was distracted by Yugoslavia before invading the USSR in 1941. > Today, bush seems prevented by the excessive costs of the Iraqi > debacle from going to war elsewhere if reelected, but not through any > lack of desire. > > Like Hitler, Bush has no qualms about imposing regime change by > installing Quisling-style client governments backed by a U.S. military > occupation with both political and economic control entirely in the > hands of Americans. It is no surprise that Iyad Alawi, Iraq s current > temporary prime minister, was once affiliated with the CIA and has > been reliably reported by the Australian press to have executed six > hooded prisoners with a handgun to their heads just a day or two > before his appointment a couple weeks ago. > > Like Hitler, Bush curtails civil liberties in captive nations and > depends on detention centers (i.e., concentration camps) such as a > Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, and any number of secret interrogation centers > across the world. Prisoners at the camps go unidentified and have no > legal rights as ordinarily guaranteed by the Geneva Conventions. They > have also been detained indefinitely (for 2 years already at > Guantanamo Bay), though there is mounting evidence that many are > innocent of what they have been charged--some, for example, having > been randomly seized by Northern Alliance troops in Afghanistan for an > automatic bounty from U.S. commanders. Moreover, many Iraqi prisoners > have been tortured, in many instances just short of death. Recent > U.S. documents disclose that as many twenty have died while being > tortured, and twenty others have died under unusual circumstances yet > to be determined. > > Like Hitler, Bush uses the threat of enemies abroad to stir the > fearful allegiance of the U.S. public. For example, he features > public announcements of possible terrorist attacks in order to > override embarrassing news coverage or to crowd from headlines > positive coverage of Democratic Party activities. He also uses the > threat of terrorism to justify extraordinary domestic powers granted > by the Patriot Act. Even the books we check out of public libraries > can be kept on record by federal agents. > > Like Hitler, Bush depends on a propaganda machine to guarantee > sympathetic news management. In Hitler s case news coverage was > totally dominated by Goebbels; in Bush s case reporters have been > almost totally imbedded by both military spokesmen and wealthy media > owners sympathetic with Bush. The most obvious case is the Fox news > channel, owned and controlled by Rupert Murdoch. Not surprisingly, > recent polls indicate that the majority of Fox viewers still think > Hussein played a role in the 9-11 attack. > > Like Hitler, Bush increasingly reduces the circle of aides he feels he > can trust as his policies keep boomeranging at his own expense. Just > as Hitler ended up isolated in his headquarters, with few individuals > granted access, Bush is now said to be limiting access primarily to > Attorney General Ashcroft (who also talks with God on a regular basis) > as well as Karl Rove, the Vice President, Karen Hughes, and a few > others. Both Secretary of State Powell and Secretary of Defense > Rumsfeld are now said to be out of the loop. > > Like Hitler, Bush has become obsessed with his vision of conflict > between good (U.S. patriotism) and evil (anti-Americanism. Many in > contact with the White House are said to be worried that he is > beginning to lose touch with reality--perhaps resulting from the use > of medication that seriously distorts his judgment. Possibly > symptomatic of this concern is the increasing number of disaffected > government officials who leak embarrassing documents. > > Like Hitler, bush takes pleasure in the mythology of frontier > justice. As a youth Hitler read and memorized the western novels of > Karl May, and Bush retains into his maturity his fascination with > simplistic cowboy values. He also exaggerates a cowboy twang despite > his C-average elitist education at Andover, Yale, and Harvard. > > Like Hitler, Bush misconstrues Darwinism, in Hitler s case by treating > the Aryan race as being superior on an evolutionary basis, in Bush s > case by rejecting science for fundamentalist creationism. > > Of course countless differences may be listed between Hitler and > President Bush, most of which are to the credit of Bush. > Nevertheless, the resemblances listed here are striking, especially > since Bush s first term in office must be compared with Hitler s > performance as German Chancellor through the year 1937, preceding the > chain of events immediately preceding World War II. In any case, > George W. Bush seems the worst and most dangerous U.S. president in > recent memory (for me since Roosevelt)--if not in the entire history > of the United States. > > Edward Jayne is a retired English professor with experience as a '60s > activist. 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