Democratic Underground Latest Greatest Lobby Journals Search Options Help Login
Google

Bush vs. Hitler

Printer-friendly format Printer-friendly format
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend
Printer-friendly format Bookmark this thread
This topic is archived.
Home » Discuss » Editorials & Other Articles Donate to DU
 
kalian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-04 02:11 PM
Original message
Bush vs. Hitler
http://english.pravda.ru/mailbox/22/98/387/11693_bush.html


Although the quest for or preservation of "democracy" is often used as a justification for war, history has incessantly revealed that such a quest is often little more than a thinly-veiled attempt to install a puppet regime.

Nazi leader Herman Goering once remarked that it was easy to lead people into war, regardless of whether they resided within "a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, a parliament, or a communist dictatorship." All that was required, Goering argued, is for their government to "tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to greater danger."

Many years ago, when I was younger and more idealistic, I would have viewed Goering's statement as an anachronism. After all, millions had suffered immensely during the nightmare of World War II, and it seemed that this historical imprint alone would have indelibly reminded people about the folly of blindly following leaders into war. Also (and despite Goering's assertion) democracy appeared to offer additional protections from this folly as well, particularly in wealthy, industrialized nations like America, where freedom of speech and press permitted the free exchange of ideas, which in turn served to balance emotion and reason, and exposed any lies used to rationalize an unjust war. While it is true that America still suffered through the Vietnam era, it did not do so unquestioningly, nor with a blind faith in the nation"s leaders.

But the coup by the plutocratic supporters of George W. Bush in the year 2000, coupled with the invasion of Iraq, changed all that, revealing how easily Americans can be manipulated, how willing they are to be lied to, and how vacuous the freedoms of speech and press have become when the bulk of information is filtered through corporate-controlled media that profit from jingoism, propaganda and dishonesty. But, perhaps most disturbingly, these events demonstrated that even though the words "freedom, democracy and human rights" are chanted like mantras by political leaders, many Americans have apparently welcomed, or at the very least are blissfully unconcerned about, the erosion of freedom, the abuse of human rights, and the nation"s growing transformation from a democracy into a neo-fascist dictatorship.


...more....
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-04 02:17 PM
Response to Original message
1. Consider the History
nhgazette.com

tarpley.net Bush biography


Basically Hitler and the Nazi Party were built and bankrolled by the Bushes, Rockefellers and Morgans who run the GOP today as they did 70 years ago.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
kalian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-04 02:19 PM
Response to Reply #1
2. Quite true....
but, where does shrub's support for the zionist Israelis come from?
:shrug: Why are they so sympathetic with that gang?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
MysticMind Donating Member (279 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-04 02:41 PM
Response to Original message
3. Hitler murdered 6 million Jews
Comparing Bush to Hitler thus makes light of their deaths.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
kalian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-04 02:45 PM
Response to Reply #3
4. Just because he murdered jews?
Is that what makes a man evil or not?
How about Bush's orders to bomb Afghanistan and Iraq...illegally?
How about starting wars...? How about lying?

Many other ethnic groups died alongside jews in those concentration
camps. Don't belittle their memory either.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
MysticMind Donating Member (279 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-04 02:57 PM
Response to Reply #4
5. you're tooo funny
DU really is full of kooks.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
kalian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-04 02:59 PM
Response to Reply #5
6. I'm too funny....?
And you are...? :shrug:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-04 12:35 AM
Response to Reply #3
7. And the Bushes helped
study some history: it is true that the Holocaust was fiinanced by the Bush family. They were the sponsors of it.

It sheds light on their deaths. It doesn't make light of them.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view 
this author's profile Click to add 
this author to your buddy list Click to add 
this author to your Ignore list Sun May 05th 2024, 09:05 AM
Response to Original message
Advertisements [?]
 Top

Home » Discuss » Editorials & Other Articles Donate to DU

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators


Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.

Home  |  Discussion Forums  |  Journals |  Store  |  Donate

About DU  |  Contact Us  |  Privacy Policy

Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.

© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC