RADICAL EDITORIALS
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The Inaccuracy of Comparing
George
W. Bush to Adolf Hitler by Robert Carl
Cohen
Alarmists, peaceniks, tree-huggers,
and other assorted wimps have dared
to compare "W" to Hitler.
From the viewpoint of hysterical
hackuracy
this simply hain't TRUE!
Hitler was an illegitimate child, a
bastard, who never knew his biological father
(rumoured to have been a Jew!!!). Drafted into the Kaiser's army during
the First World War, Hitler became a corporal, and was said to have
been gassed in the trenches. When, as a war
veteran attempting to earn
a living as a painter, his artistic efforts were rejected by the art
galleries of Vienna, (many of which were run by Jews), he was forced to
eat at charity soup kitchens (many of which were run by Jews).
"W," on the other hand, is the son of
a multi-millionaire father who
has held high government positions, including being Director of the CIA
and President of the USA. Rather than be drafted, "W" enlisted in the
Texas Air National Guard, spent a year lounging around swimming pools
in the USA while his unit went to Viet Nam, was never charged with
being AWOL; and got a diploma from business
school at Yale.
Hitler, hired to infiltrate the tiny
Nazi (National Socialist German
Workers Party), finding that he had ability as a demagogic public
speaker, soon took over the very organization he'd been paid to spy on.
Arrested in 1923 after leading an abortive putsch in Munich, following
the publication of his prison-written book "Mein Kampf" (My Battle),
after his release he was supported by the "Brown Shirts" of
the S.A.
(Sturm Abteilung) - a paramilitary organization said to have numbered
up
to two million disgruntled war veterans.
Assisted by massive donations
from a coalition of Germany's major corporations, he was elected as a
Nazi Party deputy to the German Reichstag (Parliament). With the
country wracked by economic woes and growing Communist-led working
class unrest, to enforce "Law and Order" the aging President Hindenberg
appointed Hitler as Reichschancellor.
Shortly thereafter the Reichstag Building itself was destroyed by arson.
Prussian Chief of Police Hermann
Goering, suspected of actually being
responsible for the fire, charging that it had been done by a
Communist-directed terrorist, used it as a pretext for canceling civil
rights, imprisoning tens of thousands of "Leftists," and setting up
concentration camps where those secretly imprisoned could be denied all
civil rights, held indefinitely, tortured and exterminated. A fearful
Reichstag performed its last act when the Social Democrats joined with
the Rightists and voted to give Hitler the power to make all
laws.
Claiming that Germany was threatened by "World Communism and the Jews,"
Hitler ordered a huge increase in armaments
production; and began
invading and taking over every nation which refused to submit to
Germany's hegemony.
"W," on the other hand, was never
elected to national office. In 2000
he received a minority of more than one million of the votes for
President of the USA, but was anointed "President" by 5 of the 9
members of the US Supreme Court as a result of their halting the
counting of disputed ballots in Florida, where his brother Jeb Bush was
Governor. The fact that several close family members of two of the
Supreme Court Justices (Scalia & Thomas) who voted to stop the
disputed ballot count were on the payrolls of Rightist organizations
failed to elicit charges of corruption in the major corporation-owned
US mass-media.
By 2001 "W's" popularity was failing
faster than the collapsing stock
market when the 9-11 terrorist attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon
created a shock wave of fear which led to the Democrats joining with
the Republicans to vote in the Patriot Act and other repressive
legislation. According to the opinion polls announced by the major
corporation-owned media, "W's" popularity soared. He announced that the
US would hunt down those responsible for the 9-11 attack, and a united
Democrat-Republican Congress voted him the unlimited power to make
war.
US Attorney General Ashcroft, charging that the nation was threatened
by Radical Islamist terrorists and anyone who assisted
them by
contributing money or otherwise supporting one of a long list of
suspected organizations, ordered the secret arrests of large
numbers of
suspected terrorists. Special detention camps were created both inside
and outside the country, where those secretly
imprisoned could be
denied all civil rights, held indefinitely, and forced to talk by means
normally forbidden by law. (The deaths under
interrogation of an
unknown number of those so detained are reportedly being investigated.)
While the medical benefits of veterans have been
curtailed; and combat
pay and assistance for the families of service personnel on active duty
have been cut, the Defense Department has ordered a
huge increase in
armaments production. Claiming that it was necessary in order to
capture (formerly US Government supported)
Saudi Arabian
multi-millionaire Osama Bin Laden, who "W" charged was reponsible for
the 9-11 attack, Afghanistan was invaded and
"liberated" of its Taliban
("Students") overlords. Many of these Talibans had been educated in
thousands of Radical Islamist Madrassas ("Schools)
established in
Pakistan. These institutions had been financed by US Government funds
channeled from the CIA through the ISI
(Pakistani Secret Police) to
counter Marxist teachings being promulgated by the then pro-Soviet
Afghani regime - and also to assist in the overthrow
of that
government. Claiming that the elusive Bin Laden was linked to (formerly
US Government supported) Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, "W"
also
charged Iraq possessed vast secret stockpiles of WDMs, "Weapons of Mass
Destruction," including anthrax and nerve gas. A claim
apparently based
on the fact that such material had previously been sold to Iraq by the
US and its allies during and following the Iran-Iraq
War. Despite the
inability of UN inspectors to find such WDMs, in 2003 "W" ordered the
US military to invade Iraq and replace its despotic
Baath Party Sunni
Moslem rulers with elements more interested in doing business with the
US. Encouraged by the bi-partisan
super-patriotic support he's received
for these two (relatively low US casualty) military victories, "W" has
ordered the Pentagon to plan the
"liberation" of all those nations
whose rulers refuse to accept the American Way of Life, especially if
they have oil, uranium, or some other
natural resource considered vital
to US interests.
Now that the differences between
Hitler and "W" have been clarified, we
can focus on their similarities. (c) copyright 2008 Robert Carl Cohen
