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The Inaccuracy of Comparing George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler by Robert Carl Cohen
Hitler was an illegitimate child who never knew his biological father
(rumoured to have been Jewish). Drafted into the Kaiser's army during the
First World War, Hitler became a corporal, and was said to have been gassed in
the trenches. When, as a war veteran attempting to earn a living as a painter,
his artistic efforts were rejected by the art galleries of Vienna, (many of
which were run by Jews), he was forced to eat at charity soup kitchens (many
of which were run by Jews).
"W," on the other hand, is the son of a multi-millionaire father who has held
high government positions, including being Director of the CIA and President
of the USA. Rather than be drafted, "W" enlisted in the Texas Air National
Guard, spent a year lounging around swimming pools in the USA while his unit
went to Viet Nam, was never charged with being AWOL; and got a diploma from
business school at Yale.
Hitler, hired to infiltrate the tiny Nazi organization (National Socialist
German Workers Party), finding that he had ability as a demagogic public
speaker, soon took over the very group he'd been paid to spy on. Arrested in
1923 after leading an abortive putsch in Munich, following the publication of
his prison-written book "Mein Kampf" (My Battle), after his release he was
supported by the "Brown Shirts" of the S.A. (Sturm Abeilung) - a paramilitary
organization said to have numbered up to two million disgruntled war veterans.
Assisted by massive donations from a coalition of Germany's major
corporations, he was elected as a Nazi Party deputy to the German Reichstag
(Parliament). With the country wracked by economic woes and growing
Communist-led working class unrest, to enforce "Law and Order" the aging
President Hindenberg appointed Hitler as Reichschancellor.
Shortly thereafter the Reichstag Building itself was destroyed by arson.
Prussian Chief of Police Hermann Goering, suspected of actually being
responsible for the fire, charging that it had been done by a
Communist-directed terrorist, used it as a pretext for canceling civil rights,
imprisoning tens of thousands of "Leftists," and setting up concentration
camps where those secretly imprisoned could be denied all civil rights, held
indefinitely, tortured and exterminated. A fearful Reichstag performed its
last act when the Social Democrats joined with the Rightists and voted to give
Hitler the power to make all laws. Claiming that Germany was threatened by
"World Communism and the Jews," Hitler ordered a huge increase in armaments
production; and began invading and taking over every nation which refused to
submit to Germany's hegemony.
"W," on the other hand, was never elected to national office. In 2000 he
received a minority of more than one million of the votes for President of the
USA, but was anointed "President" by 5 of the 9 members of the US Supreme
Court as a result of their halting the counting of disputed ballots in
Florida, where his brother Jeb Bush was Governor. The fact that several close
family members of two of the Supreme Court Justices (Scalia & Thomas) who
voted to stop the disputed ballot count were on the payrolls of Rightist
organizations failed to elicit charges of corruption in the major
corporation-owned US mass-media.
By 2001 "W's" popularity was falling faster than the collapsing stock market
when the 9-11 terrorist attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon created a shock
wave of fear which led to the Democrats joining with the Republicans to vote
in the Patriot Act and other repressive legislation. According to the opinion
polls announced by the major corporation-owned media, "W's" popularity soared.
He announced that the US would hunt down those responsible for the 9-11
attack, and a united Democrat-Republican Congress voted him the unlimited
power to make war. US Attorney General Ashcroft, charging that the nation was
threatened by Radical Islamist terrorists, and anyone who assisted them by
contributing money or otherwise supporting one of a long list of suspected
organizations, ordered the secret arrests of large numbers of suspected
terrorists. Special, some even secret, detention camps were created both
inside and outside the country, where those secretly imprisoned could be
denied all civil rights, held indefinitely, and forced to talk by means
normally forbidden by law, ie: torture. (The deaths under interrogation of an
unknown number of those so detained are reportedly being investigated.) While
the medical benefits of veterans have been curtailed; and combat pay and
assistance for the families of service personnel on active duty have been cut,
the Defense Department has ordered a huge increase in armaments production.
Claiming that it was necessary in order to capture (formerly US Government
supported) Saudi Arabian multi-millionaire Osama Bin Laden, who "W" charged
was reponsible for the 9-11 attack, Afghanistan was invaded and "liberated" of
its Taliban ("Students") overlords. Many of these Talibans had been educated
in thousands of Radical Islamist Madrassas ("Schools) established in Pakistan.
These institutions had been financed by US Government funds channeled from the
CIA through the ISI (Pakistani Secret Police) to counter Marxist teachings
being promulgated by the then pro-Soviet Afghani regime - and also to assist
in the overthrow of that government. Claiming that the elusive Bin Laden was
linked to (formerly US Government supported) Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein,
"W" also charged Iraq possessed vast secret stockpiles of WDMs, "Weapons of
Mass Destruction," including anthrax and nerve gas. A claim apparently based
on the fact that such material had previously been sold to Iraq by the US and
its allies during and following the Iran-Iraq War. Despite the inability of UN
inspectors to find such WDMs, in 2003 "W" ordered the US military to invade
Iraq and replace its despotic Baath Party Sunni Moslem rulers with elements
more interested in doing business with the US. Encouraged by the bi-partisan
super-patriotic support he's received for these two (compared to the 58,000+
Vietnam - relatively low US casualty) military victories, "W" has ordered the
Pentagon to plan the "liberation" of all those nations whose rulers refuse to
accept the American Way of Life, especially if they have oil, uranium, or some
other natural resource considered vital to US interests.
Now that the differences between Hitler and "W" have been clarified, we can
focus on their similarities.
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