Sunday July 22 2007
http://isbushantichrist.blogspot.com/Though some people are offended when you compare Bush to Hitler, as a practical matter, there is no other politician within the American experience left to compare him to. He long ago surpassed Nixon in breaking laws and grabbing onto power. Only last week, Bush claimed not only that he had the right to turn his nose up at Congressional subpoenas, but that if Congress files a contempt citation, his justice department will not enforce the law.
Nixon allowed John Dean to testify, even though he knew it would be a disaster. He knew it meant the end of his presidency, but Nixon was not willing to cross the Rubicon and become an outright dictator. Bush has already crossed that bridge. The difference is that Bush is quite willing to keep breaking more laws and grabbing onto more power to cover-up the laws he’s already broken. He’s the only leader we’ve had who acts so much like a dictator, that we can only compare him to other world dictators. He actions are so completely outside the mainstream of American political experience that we can only understand his actions, as well as predict his future actions, in terms of other totalitarian leaders. Otherwise, it’s like comparing apples to oranges.
At this point, psychologically speaking, George Bush is much like Adolph in his bunker at the end of WWII. Like Hitler, Bush seems completely oblivious and out of touch with reality, and still expecting to win a war that’s already lost. While Hitler pretended to be in control of armies that no longer existed, Bush surges troops that he really doesn’t have by extending the tours of those already in Iraq.
Hitler was unable to take responsibility for his failed war strategy; instead, he ended up blaming the German people for not having the strength and courage to persevere. In the very same way, Bush is going around the country constantly blaming the American people for losing patience and wanting to bring the troops home. It isn’t his fault – perish the thought! It’s our fault for ‘validating the strategy of the terrorists,’ and getting tired of war. Forget that fact that it’s taken longer to secure the road from downtown Baghdad to the Baghdad airport than it took to defeat Germany and Japan. Forget the fact that he shamelessly lied to all of us – how dare the American people ever think of cutting and running. Didn’t we know that the war was all about validating Bush’s role as our leader? We ought to be willing to sacrifice as many lives as necessary to prove that he was right.
It’s important to understand that Bush will never blame himself for leading the country into this disaster – that he is entirely incapable of doing so. Instead, he will – and he already does - blame the country for not being willing to spill more of our blood and treasure in Iraq. And just like Hitler, Bush will find a way to get back at the country for ruining his presidency.
What Hitler did to get back at Germany was to institute a ‘scorched earth’ policy called the ‘Nero Order,’ intended to systematically destroy the country and leave nothing for the allies. Hitler not only committed suicide, but he intended to commit total national suicide. He believed that the German people didn’t deserve to survive the war because they were weak. Unfortunately for him, Albert Speer and others disobeyed his final insane orders, so that even though Germany was in ruins, it wasn’t completely decimated and depopulated. But then, Adolph didn’t have a nuclear bomb like Bush does, and he was too busy gassing the last of the Jews to start in on the Aryan race too.
Anyone who thinks that Bush is going to allow America to betray his authority and leadership skills by getting out of Iraq – thereby making him into the worse president in history – they are deceiving themselves. He may currently believe that 100 years from now, historians will eventually look back at how brilliant he was. But unless he’s taking even more drugs that Hitler (and he may be) I doubt that he will be able to rest easy under that particular delusion for very long, as the magnitude of the disaster begins to dawn on him. And when he finally wakes up to see the shambles we’ve made of his presidency, what’s he going to do?
It seems significant that even now, with his job approval down to 26%, he’s still grabbing onto more power. Why? Because the goal of his entire presidency has always been power for its own sake. 9-11 was just an excuse to grab more power and commit more crimes than any other president in history. And it’s difficult to believe that a man so completley addicted to power, would simply to hand it off to Hillary Clinton a year and a half from now. It’s simply not in his character, and not his style, any more than admitting his mistakes.
The rush that comes with power, which undoubtedly comes over him every time he breaks the law, defies Congress or tortures someone - seems to be the only thing keeping him from crashing psychologically, and that’s why he continues desperately grabbing onto more power, the closer we come to when he is scheduled to give it up. As with any addict, I doubt that he can admit to himself that he can’t give it up. He’s only looking for an excuse or a reason not to have to give it up.
That excuse may come in the form of another terrorist attack on American soil, or it may come by way of attacking Iran or Pakistan, and by drawing the country into a much wider war. The point is that he’s become like Hitler crouching down in a bunker, now capable of just about anything. He’s ripped the Constitution into so many pieces that most people can’t remember what it said anymore. There’s no longer any yardstick with which to measure his insanity.
Crime is a relative concept, and after being constantly bombarded by scenes of violence and torture in the war crime more commonly called the occupation of Iraq, Congressional oversight no longer seems very relevant, as long as the Democrats keep bankrolling Bush's crimes against humanity in Iraq. War - which is always a kind of endorsement of absolute lawlessness - has a corrosive effect on the respect for the rule of law. This is truer the longer that the war continues, and the more unjustified it was from the start.
What Bush is incapable of understanding is that Americans want the war to end, not only because they worry about the lives being lost and the money being wasted, and certainly not because they’re afraid or weak, but because they can sense the corrosive effect this particular war is having upon the character of the nation and the rule of law. Democracies are naturally disposed to be against war because they are strongy in favor of the rule of law.
Like any person, any nation that persists in doing an evil thing cannot help but become more corrupt and evil over time. What we never would have tolerated five years ago, now we have simply learned to live with: Torture, illegal wiretapping, illegal kidnapping and detention – it’s all become a part of the endless ‘war on terror.’ The same way that Germany learned to live with the Holocaust, we’ve leaned to live all the crimes that Bush is doing in our name. We’re quickly sinking to his level, and the only question is whether we are strong and virtuous enough as a nation to stop him. Because make no mistake -he's completely incapable of stopping himself.
If the choice is between giving up power and admitting he’s a complete failure, or getting back at the country for betraying him and going out in a blaze of glory in some final Armageddon push against the axis of evil – he may not see this as a choice at all, but more as his patriotic duty and place in history, just like Hitler did. It’s only the country that’s still in denial about it.
posted by R. Stephen Hanchett at 6:44 PM
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