It's going a bit far to compare the Bush of 2003 to the Hitler of 1933. Bush simply is not the orator that Hitler was. But comparisons of the Bush Administration's fear mongering tactics to those practiced so successfully and with such terrible results by Hitler and Goebbels on the German people and their Weimar Republic are not at all out of line.
Dave Lindorff
You got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.
George W. Bush
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
Adolph Hitler
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Inside the White House.
The phone next to George W. Bush is ringing.
GWB: Hello.
DC: Quack.
GWB: What’s up Dick?
DC: Just had a brainstorm.
GWB: I thought the forecast said it was going to be clear.
DC: Quack. It is. But I had a brainstorm anyway.
GWB: Oh. O.K. About what?
DC: I’ve got some ideas about your visit to
GWB: Sure.
DC: Pull out the Hitler fear card.
GWB: Hitler’s card? Isn’t he dead?
DC: Quack. Yes, but you can revive him.
GWB: How?
DC: Mention him when you talk to the Knesset.
GWB: O.K. I’m listening.
DC: Point out that Democrats are appeasing terrorists just like Hitler was getting appeased.
GWB: Right. What else?
DC: Point the finger at Obama without mentioning him by name.
GWB: Good idea. Scare the people some more so they’ll vote for McCain in November.
DC: Quack.
***
Bellicosity and Hypocrisy in Tel Aviv
Lies of Aggression
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
On May 15, the White House Moron, in a war-planning visit to Israel, justified the naked aggression he and Olmert are planning against Iran as the only alternative to “the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.”
But the White House Moron has the roles reversed. It is not Iran that is threatening war. It is Bush. It is not Bush who is appeasing. It is Iran.
Iran has not responded in kind to any of Bush’s warlike moves and provocations. Iran has not sunk a single one of our sitting duck ships and has not given the Iraqi insurgents any weapons that would easily turn the tide of war against the US.
It is Bush, not Iran, who sounds like Adolf Hitler blustering and threatening. It is Bush’s American Brownshirts, the neocons, who express the view: “what’s the good of nuclear weapons if you can’t use them.”
It is the US that is funding assassination teams inside Iran and using taxpayer dollars to fund dissident and violent organizations opposed to the Iranian government. Iran is doing no such thing here.
It is members of the Bush Regime and US generals who continue to lie through their teeth about Iranian support for insurgents, for which they can supply no evidence, and about Iranian nuclear weapons programs, for which the IAEA inspectors can find no sign.
It is the US print and TV media that serves the Bush Regime as propaganda ministry for its lies of aggression.
All the war crimes that are being planned are being planned by Bush and Olmert.
What would George Orwell make of the Bush Regime’s position that anything less than a direct act of naked aggression is appeasement?
The Chicago City Council has passed a resolution “opposing any US attack on Iran and urging the Bush Administration to pursue diplomatic engagement with that nation.” But the White House Moron says diplomacy is appeasement. He learned this false equivalence from the neocon Brownshirts whose control over his administration has made America despised throughout the world, with the exception of Israel.
After broadcasting false claims for weeks from US generals and Bush Regime spokespersons that the US has “definite proof” in the form of captured Iranian weapons that Iranians were “responsible for killing American troops,” the great free American media went silent when LA Times correspondent Tina Susman reported from Baghdad: “A plan to show some alleged Iranian-supplied explosives to journalists last week in Karbala and then destroy them was cancelled after the United States realized none of them was from Iran.”
A people devoid of a media are sitting ducks for tyrannical government, which is what the US has.
What is the difference between Hitler’s concocted excuses for his acts of naked aggression and the Bush Regime’s plan to use a briefing by General Petraeus, with “captured Iranian weapons” as props, as proof of Iranian complicity in US deaths in Iraq as a means to break down public and congressional resistance to an attack on Iran?
Why has the Bush Regime suffered no consequences for this blatant attempt to orchestrate an excuse for another war?
Why have there been no consequences to the Regime for the blatant lies it told in order to attack Iraq?
Why has the Bush Regime suffered no consequences for its violation of US statutory laws against spying without warrants and against torture?
In the US criminal justice system, three strikes and you are out.
For the Bush Regime is there any limit on its lawless behavior?
How many strikes? A dozen? Thirty? Three hundred?
Is there a limit?
Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions. He can be reached at: PaulCraigRoberts@yahoo.com
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