Comparing Bush to Hitler

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Comparing Bush to Hitler

By DOUG THOMPSON Capitol Hill Blue

May 4, 2006, 06:56

 

Compare George W. Bush to Adolph Hitler and you piss off some people,

inflame others who either agree or disagree, and start a debate over

when criticism of a public official goes too far.

 

" You go too far with the Hitler comparison, " reads a typical email

from one of the Republican lemmings who still think Bush has some

redeeming qualities. " It's unfair. "

 

Perhaps, but unfair to whom? I'm not sure it's possible to be unfair

to Bush, the man who promised " the most ethical administration in

history " but delivered, instead, the most corrupt, scandal-ridden,

dishonest government I've seen in 40 years of writing about, or

working in, politics.

 

Perhaps it is unfair to Hitler. Adolph was, after all, a powerful

public speaker with an incredible command of his native language.

Dubya is a pathetic speaker who has trouble stringing enough words

together to form a simple declarative sentence.

 

Yet such comparisons become more and more evident. Hitler rode

roughshod over the laws of his country, ignored civil liberties,

called those who opposed him " unpatriotic, " and created a powerful

secret police that spied on citizens of Germany.

 

Sound familiar? It should. Bush routinely ignores the laws of the

land, tramples on civil liberties, calls those who oppose him

" unpatriotic, " and has created the powerful, secretive Department of

Homeland Security to spy on citizens of his country.

 

The few, remaining, brain-dead die hards who still defend Bush decry

comparisons with Hitler because, they say, Hitler killed millions upon

millions of Jews to become the greatest mass murderer in history.

 

True, and while Bush has not yet killed millions of Muslims, he is

doing his best to up the body count with his lies-based invasion of

Iraq and his politicized " war on terrorism. " I doubt the thousands

upon thousands of Iraqi civilians who have died at the hands of

American soldiers and bombs consider our President a liberator. The

word you hear most often on the streets is Baghdad is " murderer. "

 

When the invasion toppled the government of Saddam Hussein, Bush

declared the rule of " the Butcher of Baghdad " over and said " there's a

new sheriff in town. " Actually, he should have said " there's a new

butcher in town " because more innocent Iraqis now die on a daily basis

than during Saddam's reign of terror (although Saddam still holds the

body count lead with his periodic purges).

 

Hitler had Auschwitz, Bush had Abu Ghraib and other prisons that

reasonable people call deplorable. We don't know yet how many Iraqis

have died at the hands of American soldiers at that hellhole and

others but British prime minister Tony Blair's own human rights envoy

calls American detention of Iraqis a " black hole " where countless

numbers of innocent civilians disappear and are never heard from again.

 

" What concerns me at the moment is that there are so many people in

detention. There are thousands and thousands of people, and the

numbers seem to be going up instead of down, " says Ann Clwyd, who is

also a Labor member of Parliament

 

Clwyd, who Blair sent to Iraq to monitor the number and condition of

detainees in Iraq, told a BBC interviewer there was a " black hole " of

missing prisoners and said that if the scandal had been taken more

seriously from the start by the US, it could have helped prevent the

abuse and deaths of detainees in their jails.

 

While I certainly hope the death count of Iraqis never reaches the

horrendous numbers of deaths at Hitler's detention camps, murder is

still murder and the death of even one innocent civilian because of

the actions of a despot should never be condoned.

 

Yes, it might be unfair to compare George W. Bush to Adolph Hitler.

Unfair to Hitler because the German madman was a better at his job in

so many ways - including mass murder.

 

But I learned long ago that Bush is an ambitious man with lofty goals

and he still has more than 36 months left in his reign of terror as

President of the United States.

 

Don't count him out.

 

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