Everyone’s Hitler these days. And everyone is looking for comparison to Hitler.
For the left everyone is Hitler, except the guy with the moustache who gases people.
people trying to turn themselves into a political movement
La Rouche, anyone? And don't forget the Paulians.
Comparing Bush to Hitler was an overreach, but at least they were referring to the fact that the Iraq War was killing many people.
As opposed to wars fought by non-Hitlers which never kill anyone.
I can certainly see the logic here.
Actually I found it ridiculous that the left decided to use "Hitler" as the bogeyman when the very invasiont hey opposed* was supposed to get rid of Saddam Hussein. Anyone who knows a bit about the history of Iraq and of Saddam's can see the irony here. The left apparently couldn't.
(*They opposed the invasion, not the war. There were no huge protests against Saddam murdering Kurds or Shiites in Iraq or against Saddam selling goods that were meant for Iraqi hospitals on the open market. The left SOLELY protested against ONE SINGLE ASPECT of the war, not the war itself or the other aspects of it.)
At other times he was compared to Goebbles for his use of propaganda, which was an exaggeration, but not markedly so.
What George Bush said about Iraq was widely believed by European governments as well as known to the Clinton administration.
The problem with Goebbels (the real one) was not that he believed and repeated what the previous administration thought they knew, but that he made up stuff.
Bush's comments about Saddam Hussein and his regime were correct.
The problem with Goebbels was not the propaganda, but the fact that he was spreading lies.
It would make more sense to compare Obama's health care plan to Stalin or Mao, than Hitler. Cult of personality? A bit of a stretch to then compare him to Hitler...not exactly the most striking element of Hitler.
Stalin and Mao were both worse than Hitler when it came to how they treated their own people. But any such comparison is not only inappropriate but also senseless.
