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| Comparing Bush To Hitler Is A Moron's Tactic | ||||||
| When arguing politics with people who think differently than me, I can usually walk away feeling that I learned something or gained a new-found respect for the person, even if I don?t agree with what they said. If you think President Bush was wrong to go into Iraq, that is fine, and while I disagree with you I can live with that. If you think Bush is reckless and dangerous when measured against the grand scheme of things, that too is fine, and even though I don't agree with you I can still respect your opinion. There is one opinion about President Bush that some people have, however, which is not only highly offensive, but is also incontrovertibly wrong - the comparison of Bush to the regime of Adolf Hitler. | ||||||
| Comparing President Bush to a man who ordered the deaths of approximately 12 million people is not only ludicrous, but anyone who says it with a straight face truly has no clue. That being said, it never ceases to amaze me how many people liken Bush to Hitler, and it is done in not only Web sites and demonstrations, but also in pop culture and politics by people who should be smarter! | ||||||
| By definition, Fascism means, "a political philosophy, movement, or regime...that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition." How, after seeing this definition, can one truly put Nazi Germany under Hitler and the United States under Bush side by side? | ||||||
| First of all, the United States is not an autocracy where one person wields all of the power, and Bush is by no means a "dictatorial leader," by any stretch of the imagination. The United States does not severely regiment the society and the economy - in fact, the only person responsible for what your status is in society is yourself. Finally, the last time I checked, there was a little thing called the First Amendment, which guarantees rights that people have died to protect, so "forcible suppression of opposition" is already out of the question. When was the last peaceful protestor forcibly suppressed by the Bush administration? That's right, never. | ||||||
| As you can see, a Fascist country, by definition, does not describe the United States, but people still associate the two. In November, George Soros, an international financier and one of the richest men in the world, told the Washington Post the following: "When I hear Bush say, 'You're either with us or against us,' it reminds me of the Germans...My experiences under Nazi and Soviet rule have sensitized me." Soros, a Hungarian Jew who survived the true regime of Adolf Hitler, should know better. While he did not actually call Bush the next Hitler, he likened Bush to the Nazis, which is quite simply ludicrous. | ||||||
| When liberal supersite MoveOn.org posted their now infamous advertisement that compared Bush to Hitler (an advertisement that Soros almost immediately denounced, despite the fact that he has donated millions to the organization and has alluded to Bush and the Nazis before, as mentioned above), even presidential hopeful John Kerry was slow to denounce it. North Korea, as reported by the Sydney Morning Herald, even uses "The Diary Of Anne Frank" to teach children that the "experience of their country...is directly comparable to that of the Frank family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands," and that "America is the modern equivalent of the Nazis." Perhaps in the biggest exhibition of blatant irony, Fidel Castro has even likened Bush to Hitler, most recently in June, when he spoke to crowds while standing beside a huge photograph that portrayed Bush as wearing a Hitler-style moustache and a military uniform, and also displayed a caption which read, "Bush, Fascist: There Is No Aggression Cuba Cannot Resist." | ||||||
| The comparison of President Bush to Adolf Hitler is not only absurd but totally false in every respect. I?d like to think that the people who actually suggest that Bush is similar to Hitler and his Nazis are making some kind of joke, but it would seem otherwise. It is a truly sad day when the American president, no matter how much one might disagree with his politics, is compared to one of the most brutal and vicious murderers of all time. More importantly, though, it shows you how low people are willing to stoop and how far they will go to make complete fools of themselves. | ||||||
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