Dave Bugg wrote:

RogerD wrote:


So did Hitler.


Really!?? How much cajones does it really take to round up the helpless and
gas 'em? Or attack the French?


It's closer than most would like to admit.

With Hitler and Bush both, it has been to make the people afraid of
the enemies around them.

"Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the
leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple
matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist
dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no
voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That
is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and
denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to
danger. It works the same in every country."

[Hermann Goering]


The trouble I have with Bush is that there is no policy, there is only
ideology. Ask Paul O'Neal, lifelong republican W's first Treasury Secretary.

It's one thing for W to misrepresent his opponents in politics, but it
is a completely different matter to misrepresent and then believe your
own propaganda in war. Two months before the Iraq invasion, it came as a
surprise to Bush to learn that there were two main branches of Islam.
You really do need leaders that are capable of thinking things through...

Lest anyone forget that when the Whitehouse was disatisfied with the
intelligence, they spun their own out of the White House (White House
Information Group). That's the line of crap they handed Colin Powell.
Ask Powell's long time chief of staff and lifelong republican what he
thinks of Bush's deliberate twisting and he will say that he should be
tried for treason. Strong words, but not far off the mark.

Jeff