Former Reagan Aide Compares Bush To Hitler

[Poiuyt]

An economist who once served as President Reagan's Assistant Secretary of the Treasury compares President George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler in a column at the libertarian website Anti-war.com.

"Bush is like Hitler," Paul Craig Roberts writes in a column entitled The Surge: Political Cover or Escalation?. "He blames defeats on his military commanders, not on his own insane policy."

"Like Hitler, he protects himself from reality with delusion," Roberts continues. "In his last hours, Hitler was ordering non-existent German armies to drive the Russians from Berlin."

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http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Former_Reagan_aide_compares_Bush_to_0109.html

[billybob537]

1. Poor pathetic little coward

Doesn't have the SACK to take the easy way out.

[Double T]

5. The Democrats must deal with bush's and cheney's delusional insanity............

by proving and declaring cheney and bush mentally unfit to hold their respective offices.

[acmavm]

2. This is just dawning on this guy? He's a little late coming to the

party, isn't he?

Hell, all of Europe, South America and the Middle East (except for his friends in the puppet Iraqi goverment, and some Saudis) figured that out a few years ago.

Nazism runs in the family.

[brentspeak]

3. No, Paul Craig Roberts has been blasting Bush for the past several years

He's been on the ball about Bush longer than even some Democrats.

[NewJeffCT]

9. You're right on that one

He was calling for impeachment years ago, if I recall...

Some former Reaganites have spoken strongly against Herr Bush - Sen. Jim Webb, Lawrence Korb (now at the Ctr for American Progress) and Roberts.

[bdamomma]

4. can we invoke the 25th Amendment now? please???

[Jack Rabbit]

6. All you'll get that way is Cheney

A double impeachment and removal is the only solution to this madness.

[atreides1]

7. Nope, and here's why!

Section 4
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

That would make Cheney the President, and none of the cabinet members will even consider it. And even if the US Congress does get the backbone, it would still put Cheney in the Oval Office.

[pansypoo53219]

11. as if

cheney isn't president right now. without poster boy, he won't get much through congress as he is even less popular.

[TahitiNut]

8. Is it fascism yet?

:eyes: How obvious does it have to get?

[tk2kewl]

10. .

[robertpaulsen]

12. Brilliant analysis of why the surge will blow up in Dumbya's face.

Raed Jarrar suggests that the Shi’ite militias, such as the one led by Sadr, are the intended targets of the "surge option." There seems no surer way to escalate the conflict in Iraq than to attack the Shi’ite militias. For longer than the US fought Germany in WWII, 150,000 US troops in Iraq have been thwarted by a small insurgency drawn from Iraq’s minority population of Sunnis. It hardly seems feasible that 30,000 additional US troops, demoralized by extended deployment, can succeed in a surge against the Shi’ite militias when 150,000 US troops cannot succeed against the minority Sunnis.

The reason the US has not been driven out of Iraq is that the majority Shi’ites have not been part of the insurgency. The Shi’ites are attacking the Sunnis, who are forced to fight a two-front war against US troops and Shi’ite militias and death squads.The US owes its presence in Iraq, just as the colonial powers always owed their presence in the Middle East, to the disunity of Arabs. Western domination of the Muslim world succeeded by not picking a fight with all of the disunited Arabs at the same time.

Attacking the Shi’ite militias while fighting a Sunni insurgency would violate this rule. If Bush ignores US military commanders and expert opinion and accepts the surge option advanced by the delusional neocon allies of Israel’s right-wing Likud Party, US troops will be engulfed in general insurgency. This is why General John Abizaid resigned on January 5. He wants no part of the Republican Party’s sacrifice of US soldiers to sectarian conflict.

http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=10284

[Maine-ah]

13. kick