Adolf Hitler, John Howard Nationalists, says Keating.

[Matilda]

PAUL Keating bought into election-year politics again last night with an attack on John Howard in which he portrayed him as a dangerous and divisive nationalist who manipulated Australia's best instincts.

The former prime minister used a speech to the Sydney Film School to deliver a discourse on the Prime Minister's culture and history wars that drew in Hitler and Margaret Thatcher - though he hastened to add he was not equating them.

But he portrayed Mr Howard, like Hitler, as a nationalist, rather than a patriot and he said that nationalism was "arguably more exclusionary than racism", with a propensity to stigmatise cultural, religious and linguistic attributes.

"Nationalism is, I believe, a dangerous and divisive tendency: its stock in trade is jingoism, populism and exclusion of the most calculating kind."

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22058924-2,00.html

Works for me.

[anakie]

1. I'd go one better than Paul

Mr Howard, you are a fascist; and your vanity over APEC will be your undoing. I cant wait.


peace