Bush, Democrats and Hitler

[kpete]

Bush, Democrats and Hitler
by Steven D
Fri Nov 2nd, 2007 at 08:05:26 AM EST

Bush has once again played the appeasement card, the Munich card and the Hitler/Lenin card, comparing the Democrats in Congress, who oppose his FISA revision (which provides the Telecom companies immunity among other things), and his Attorney General nominee, and who are not moving immediately to rubber stamp his Iraq War funding request, to the people who permitted the rise of Hitler and Lenin.

President Bush compared Congress' Democratic leaders Thursday to people who ignored the rise of Lenin and Hitler early in the last century, saying "the world paid a terrible price" then and risks similar consequences for inaction today.

Bush accused Congress of stalling important pieces of the fight to prevent new terrorist attacks by: dragging out and possibly jeopardizing confirmation of Michael Mukasey as attorney general, a key part of his national security team; failing to act on a bill governing eavesdropping on terrorist suspects; and moving too slowly to approve spending measures for the Iraq war, Pentagon and veterans programs.

It's ironic that it was Hitler who used the specter of foreign and domestic enemies to curtail essential civil liberties established by the Wiemar constitution, just as Bush has used Osama Bin Laden, "Islamofascists" and terrorists in general as justification for trampling our Constitutional rights and employing torture. And it was Hitler who pursued aggressive pre-emptive wars against foreign states (Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Greece) that posed no threat to Germany, just as Bush has done in Iraq and is threatening to do in Iran.

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We need to look at history and face the "what ifs". For if we keep going down this road, the "end of America" could come for each of us in a different way, at a different moment; each of us might have a different moment when we feel forced to look back and think: that is how it was before - and this is the way it is now.

much more at:
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2007/11/2/8526/29051

[goddess40]

1. Funny coming from Bush since his grandpa helped Hitler

by financing Hitler

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1312540,00.html

How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power

The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.

His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.

[Toots]

2. Let us hope the world will heed what Bush* is saying and put a stop to his aggression

I am sick and tired of their appeasement of him..

[bdamomma]

3. China and Russia are not playing with * /Cheney either.

they know what a nutcases they are.

[Deny and Shred]

4. Great articles on Prescott, unfortunately too deniable

Same old playbook - obfuscate the truth from the American public by sending funds and info through many channels. If it is swished around enough, the public won't have the patience or expertise to follow all the machinations, and it will simply await the summary - ultimately a we said/they said. The ultimate conclusion is that the whole affair is rumor and conjecture - smoke but no smoking gun - because there is too much to follow and too many opinions. The smoking gun is either shielded by National Security for decades, as in Prescott's case, or simply disappears if it wasn't swished around enough, like W's Texas Air Guard records.

Other similarly handled topics - Halliburton and Iran recently; the CIA, crack, Danilo Blandon and Rickey Ross; 2004 Presidential results from Ohio and extra code in the ballot-scanning machines; 2000 Presidential results from Florida and hthe process by which 156,000 votes from FLA's poorer counties were never counted, just to name a few off the top o' my head. Search, read, puke.

Reminds me of Iran-Contra also - a few too many strings to unravel, despite a ton of evidence all pointing to someone in the White House. The smoking gun - Weinberger's diary - never sees the light of day. All we see is the outrage of those who have put in the time to understand and learn the truth, like Walsh the I - C prosecutor, who was so livid at the last minute pardons of all involved that he was painted as a spotlight-seeking angry nut with an axe to grind - a la Jim Garrison.