- "This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention
centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and
later by the prisoners who were freed were not, as some assumed, inflicted
methodically, but were excesses committed by individual prison guards,
their deputies, and men who laid violent hands on the detainees."
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- Can anyone tell me who said that? Was it:
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- A) George W. Bush
- B) John Ashcroft
- C) Donald Rumsfeld
- D) Someone else
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- If you answered 'Someone Else' you'd be right. It was
Rudolf Hoess, SS Kommandant of the infamous Auschwitz camp.
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- Conservatives, who love to call Liberals whiny, get whiny
as hell when the Bush administration is compared to Nazi Germany, or to
fascism in general. Guess what, though? The comparisons are beginning to
come through more and more.
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- Scott Horton wrote in the LA Times:
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- Consider the memorandum written by Alberto Gonzales -
then the president's attorney, now his nominee for attorney general. He
wrote that the Geneva Convention was "obsolete" when it came
to the war on terror. Gonzales reasoned that our adversaries were not parties
to the convention and that the Geneva concept was ill suited to anti-terrorist
warfare.
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- In 1941, General-Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, the head
of Hitler's Wehrmacht, mustered identical arguments against recognizing
the Geneva rights of Soviet soldiers fighting on the Eastern Front. Keitel
even called Geneva "obsolete," a remark noted by U.S. prosecutors
at Nuremberg, who cited it as an aggravating circumstance in seeking, and
obtaining, the death penalty. Keitel was executed in 1946.
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- Hitler was installed, then re-elected.
- Bush was installed, then re-elected.
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- Hitler had Reichstag.
- Bush had 911.
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- (I am not implying government collusion in 9/11, FYI)
Both used their respective catastrophes to assume more power (Hitler with
the Enabling Act, Bush with the USA PATRIOT Act), and to assume dictatorial
powers.
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- Hitler used Christianity to give his words absolute authority
and decried any who dissented as unpatriotic. Bush uses Christianity to
give his words absolute authority and decries any who dissent as unpatriotic.
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- Hitler said:
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- "The German people are not a warlike nation. It
is a soldierly one, which means it does not want a war, but does not fear
it. It loves peace but also loves its honor and freedom."
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- Bush said:
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- "We're pursuing a strategy of freedom around the
world, because I understand free nations will reject terror. Free nations
will answer the hopes and aspirations of their people. Free nations will
help us achieve the peace we all want."
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- I have rejected this type of comparison of Bush to Hitler
for months, because Hitler was a genocidal maniac bent on ruling the world
with his ideology. I submit this comparison now because I believe the same
to be true of George W. Bush.
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- George W. Bush will have his empire, and he will kill
any person, group, or country that stands in his way. I challenge any of
you to tell me why that is not so, as he has already proved it.
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