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Comparing Bush and Hitler, and the monsters behind the curtain
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by Helen & Harry Highwater, Unknown News
April 7, 2006
It’s too easy, too obvious, too common, and too silly to hear people comparing Bush to Hitler. It’s just an absurd comparison, and completely unfair to Hitler.
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Say what you will about the mini-mustachioed mass murderer, but give him the respect he’s due: He was a genocidal lunatic, but he was also a very smart fellow. It must’ve been, to use GW’s phrase, “hard work” for Hitler to present himself as intelligent and sane, while setting up death camps and keeping the world from interfering in his genocide for several years. By comparison, there are fewer and fewer people in America who would seriously argue that Bush is intelligent. Advantage: Hitler.
Hitler was bad, of course -- very, very, very, very, very, very bad. He killed millions of Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, the handicapped, prisoners of war, and many, many enemy civilians, and he triggered a world-wide war that left about 55,000,000 corpses. Hitler was a very, very, very, very, very, very bad man.
Bush is bad too, but hasn't (yet) earned as many verys. Nor is he anywhere near second place. Heck, Hitler himself might be in second place, if Stalin's numbers are as awful as some historians claim. So calling Bush 'Hitler' is a wee bit hyperbolic.
That said, there are some similarities between Bush and Hitler.
Hitler took power in Germany on January 30, 1933, and less than a month later the Reichstag -- Germany's House of Representatives -- burned, shocking the nation into a frenzy which Hitler used for political gain. The Bush-Cheney administration, by comparison, was in power for almost eight months before the World Trade Centers went down, shocking America into a frenzy which Bush used for political gain. But it took Bush eight months to accomplish what Hitler did in less than one. Advantage: Hitler.
In his third year in power, Hitler’s Germany took back Rhineland, territory Germany had surrendered at the end of World War I. In his fifth year the Germans took Austria and some chunks of Czechoslovakia. By comparison, five years into Bush’s Presidency, the US has only invaded two nations. To keep pace with Hitler, Bush would need to invade a third nation soon, and that’s surely not going to happen, is it?
Hitler was only 43 years old when he took power in Germany. Bush, with several years of his life lost in a blur, was 54 when he was handed the Presidency. Advantage: Hitler, again.
Twenty years before becoming Germany's Chancellor, Hitler was homeless and penniless. Bush, at a comparable point in his life, was a cokehead, drunk, and general failure whose father was a wealthy, powerful Senator, happy to clean up his boy's messes. Hitler had no such protection -- he wasn’t the son of a well-connected “Adolf H.W. Hitler,” so Hitler should get some credit for being much more a self-made man.
It's an oft-told joke, but another crucial difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected. Bush has never been elected to any office -- not the governor’s chair in Texas, and certainly not the US Presidency -- without the support of votes “cast” by electronic cheating machines programmed to record his ‘victory’ no matter how the votes were cast.
Five years into the Bush administration, he has only been able to take America to the brink of fascism, whereas after five years in power Hitler had his nation in unmistakably full-fascist mode.
Hitler generally unified Germany, with the noteworthy exception of those millions of Germans he killed. Bush has taken some civil liberties from Americans and clearly yearns to snatch more of our freedoms, but he hasn't yet ordered millions of Americans shipped to death camps. Advantage: Bush, big-time.
Instead of uniting America, Bush's Presidency has ripped a huge, ugly divide across the nation, a miles-wide space between reality and the apparently mindless millions who still support him. This "reality gap" is truly astounding, as we see men wearing suits and women clutching Bibles still claim they respect and admire Bush, even after he has taken America into two quagmire wars, drowned an American metropolis, appointed beer-buddies to the nation's most important life-and-death posts, tried to hand port security to one of the principle nations behind 9/11, sunk millions of Americans into poverty, let North Korea develop and threaten to use nuclear weapons, and tried to give nuclear bomb-making technology to India -- a nation which has refused to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, since it’s routinely violated it.
So give Hitler the credit he’s due, please. Insult Hitler for his genocide, his insanity, his policies, his tyranny, but don’t insult him by suggesting that Bush is a chip off the Fuhrer’s block. George W Bush is no Adolf Hitler.
Hitler was his own man -- his own madman. There was nobody behind Hitler's curtains, pulling his strings. Hitler was the real thing, an absolute monster in charge of a nation.
Bush, by comparison -- well, there's just no comparison. He's a pipsqueak daddy’s boy, a wanna-be Hitler whose probably doesn’t half-understand what he’s done. George W Bush is nothing, really. He's a dupe, a puppet whose strings are pulled by men far more powerful and far more evil than he.
Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Donald Rumsfeld, and undoubtedly others whose names remain unknown -- these are the monsters to fear in present-day America. These are the men who could out-Hitler Hitler.
The men pulling Bush's strings are as smart as any tyrant who ever lived
and every bit as evil. They have proven, repeatedly, that they have no
morals, no conscience. The media is almost entirely their media, almost
all the opposition is weak and marginalized, and with Bush as their
hollow-headed puppet, these men have their fingers on the triggers of
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Hitler was his own man -- his own madman.
There was nobody behind Hitler's curtains, pulling his strings.
Hitler was the real thing, an absolute monster in charge of a nation.
George W Bush is nothing, really.
He's a dupe, a puppet whose strings are pulled by men far more powerful and far more evil than he.
Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Donald Rumsfeld, and undoubtedly others whose names remain unknown -- these are the monsters to fear in present-day America.
These are the men who could out-Hitler Hitler.
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weapons much more impressive than any weapons Hitler ever had, or anything Hitler even dreamed of.
Given the slightest excuse -- or just making up an excuse, as they did with Iraq -- these monsters behind the curtain could match or surpass Hitler’s death total with just a few launch orders.
Records, after all -- even the most vile, horrific records -- can always be broken. Hitler's millions killed is a grisly benchmark, but with true determination it's a record that can be surpassed, just like Roger Bannister's four-minute mile or Roger Maris's 61-homer season.
Will they do it? Will Bush’s monstrous puppeteers be able to
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match or exceed Hitler's horrific accomplishments? If we, the American people, continue allowing them to try, try, and try again, the answer will eventually, inevitably be yes.
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