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..........
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