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To: tejek who wrote (168273)	4/22/2003 5:54:44 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576178

Ted I think that Thom Hartmann's slightly veiled comparison of Bush to Hitler is ugly and reprehensible. I'm tempted to just leave it at that because that point is more important then the details but... It started when the government, in the midst of a worldwide economic crisis A normal cyclic downturn with relatively stagnant growth isn't a worldwide economic crisis. It doesn't even vaguely resemble the great depression. A foreign ideologue had launched feeble attacks on a few famous buildings I'm not sure what German buildings you are referring to but Germany didn't have anything like 9/11 happen to it. the man who claimed to be the nation's leader had not been elected by a majority vote Neither was Clinton. But Clinton and Bush both won according the legal and constitutional rules of the election process in the US. and the majority of citizens claimed he had no right to the powers he coveted. A majority in the US do not claim that Bush is not rightfully president. When an aide brought him word that the nation's most prestigious building was ablaze The Reichstag fire did not kill thousands of people. Also there is little doubt that Al Qaeda actually did destroy the WTC and damage the Pentagon. There is a lot of doubt that van der Lubbe did commit the arson. Only the lunatic fringe thinks Bush had anything to do with 9/11. But there is some evidence that the Nazis may have burned the Reichstag down themselves to blame it on the communists. The post 9/11 security measures don't even vaguely resemble what Hitler put in place in Germany. And they where in response to a defacto war by real foreign terrorists not a grab for power. Blair's joining in action against Saddam is in many ways the opposite of Chamberlain's words and actions before WWII. he was later Time magazine's "Man Of The Year." The "Man of the Year" award goes to the person who most effected the world. Their was serious consideration given to making bin Laden the "man of the year" after 9/11. We also remember that the Germans developed a new form of highly violent warfare they named "lightning war" or blitzkrieg, which, while generating devastating civilian losses, also produced a highly desirable "shock and awe" Finally some similarity. Both WWI Germans and modern (and WWII) Americans are good fighters. Why this is significant in the context of this article I have no idea but yes something is the same. Tim