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   From: joebruno@hitlerrnc.org   
      
   Funny how all of Obama's enemies voted for Bush.    The worst president in   
   history.   
      
   It comes as no surprise to anyone that there are 27 Similarities between Hitler   
   and President Bush   
      
      
   After President Bush promised last fall to invade Iraq, his spokesmen   
   fell into the habit of comparing Saddam Hussein with Adolph Hitler, by   
   most accounts the most monstrous figure in modern history.  Everybody   
   was therefore shocked when the German Minister of Justice turned the   
   tables by comparing Bush himself with Hitler.  As to be expected, she   
   (the Justice Minister) was forced to resign because of her extreme   
   disrespect for an American president.  However, the resemblance sticks   
   -- there are too many similarities to be ignored, some of which may be   
   listed here.   
      
   1. Like Hitler, President Bush was not elected by a majority, but was   
   forced to engage in political maneuvering in order to gain office.   
      
   2. Like Hitler, Bush began to curtail civil liberties in response to a   
   well-publicized national outrage, in Hitler's case the Reichstag fire,   
   in Bush's case the 9-11 catastrophe.   
      
   3. Like Hitler, Bush went on to pursue a reckless ultra-nationalist   
   foreign policy without the mandate of the electorate.   
      
   4. Like Hitler, Bush has accordingly improved his popularity ratings,   
   especially with veterans and conservative Republicans, by mounting an   
   aggressive public relations campaign against foreign enemies.  Just as   
   Hitler cited international communism to justify Germany's military   
   buildup, Bush uses Al Qaeda and the Axis of Evil to justify our   
   current military buildup.   
      
   5. Like Hitler, Bush promotes militarism while in the midst of a major   
   economic recession (or depression).  He uses war preparations to help   
   subsidize defense industries (Halliburton, Bechtel, etc.) and   
   presumably the rest of the economy on a trickle-down basis.   
      
   6. Like Hitler, Bush glorifies patriotism to stir up public support.   
   He treats our nation's unique historic destiny almost as a religious   
   cause sanctioned by God.   
      
   7. Like Hitler, Bush quickly makes and breaks diplomatic ties, and he   
   makes generous promises that he soon abandons, as in the case of   
   Mexico, Russia, Afghanistan, and even New York City.   
      
   8. Like Hitler, Bush envisages a future world order that guarantees   
   his own nation's hegemonic supremacy rather than cooperative harmony   
   under the authority of the United Nations (or League of Nations). He   
   is willing to break the U.N. Charter in promoting this end.   
      
   9. Like Hitler, Bush scraps international treaties, most notably the   
   Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, the Biological Weapons Convention, the   
   Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the Convention on the Prohibition of   
   Land Mines, the Chemical Weapons Convention, the Kyoto Global Warming   
   Accord, and the International Criminal Court.   
      
   10. Like Hitler, Bush depends on an axis of collaborative allies,   
   which he describes as a "coalition of the willing," to give the   
   impression of having a broad popular alliance.  These include the U.K.   
   as compared to Mussolini's Italy, and Spain and Bulgaria as compared   
   to, well, Spain and Bulgaria, both of which were aligned with Germany   
   during the thirties and World War II.   
      
   11. Like Hitler, Bush possesses a war machine much bigger and more   
   effective than the military capabilities of other nations.  Today,   
   Bush depends on a "defense" budget roughly equivalent to the combined   
   military expenditures of the rest of the world.   
      
   12. Like Hitler, Bush is willing to invade other nations despite the   
   opposition of the U.N. (League of Nations).  He also has no qualms   
   about bribing, bullying and insulting its members, even tapping their   
   telephone lines.   
      
   13. Like Hitler, Bush pursues war without cutting back on the   
   peacetime economy.  He actually seeks to reduce taxes while conducting   
   an expensive invasion and occupation of an "undesirable" nation.   
      
   14. Like Hitler, Bush launches unilateral invasions on a supposedly   
   preemptive basis.  Just as Hitler convinced the German public to think   
   of Poland as a threat to Germany in 1939, Bush wants Americans to   
   think of Iraq as a "potential" threat to our national security.   
      
   15. Like Hitler, Bush is willing to inflict high levels of bloodshed,   
   with many thousands of casualties anticipated in Iraq, especially   
   since the city of Baghdad--with a population of between 5 and 6   
   million--will be a primary target.   
      
   16. Like Hitler, Bush depends on a military strategy that features a   
   "shock and awe" blitzkrieg beginning with devastating air strikes,   
   then an invasion led by heavy armor columns.   
      
   17. Like Hitler, Bush is perfectly willing to sacrifice life as part   
   of his official duty, as indicated by his unique record as a governor   
   of Texas who was reluctant to commute death sentences.   
      
   18. Like Hitler Bush began warfare on a single front (Al Qaeda   
   quartered in Afghanistan), but then expanded it to a second front with   
   Iraq, only to be confronted with North Korea as a potential third   
   front.  Much the same thing happened when Hitler expanded German   
   military operations from Spain to Poland and France, then was   
   distracted by Yugoslavia before invading the USSR in 1941.   
      
   19. Like Hitler, Bush has no qualms about imposing "regime change" by   
   installing Quisling-style client governments reinforced by full-scale   
   military occupation under a military governor.   
      
   20. Like Hitler, Bush curtails civil liberties and depends on   
   detention centers (i.e. concentration camps) such as Guantanamo Bay.   
      
   21. Like Hitler, Bush repeats lies often enough that they come to be   
   accepted as the truth.  Bush and his spokesmen argue, for example that   
   every measure has been taken to avoid war (hardly true), that an   
   invasion of Iraq will diminish (not intensify) the terrorist threat to   
   the world, and that the U.S. is staging an invasion because the risks   
   of inaction would be greater (not less).  All of this is highly   
   debatable.  They likewise argue that Iraq is linked with Al Qaeda   
   (which has yet to be proven), and that nothing whatsoever has been   
   achieved by U.N. inspectors to warrant the postponement of U.S. war   
   plans (which simply isn't true). They insist that Iraq hides numerous   
   weapons it does not possess as well as can be determined by U.N.   
   inspectors, and they refuse to acknowledge the total absence of any   
   nuclear weapons program in Iraq since the late nineties.  As perhaps   
   to be expected, they indignantly accuse everybody else of deception   
   and evasiveness.   
      
   22. Like Hitler, Bush incessantly finds new excuses to justify war   
   --from Iraq's WMD threat to the elimination of Saddam Hussein, to his   
   supposed Al Qaeda connection, to the creation of democracy in the   
      
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