In the late 1930’s the Nazi Party secretly set fire to the Reichstag. The ruse served its’ purpose, raising Hitler’s clout in the Republic, sabotaging the German democracy.

Then, with charisma and an unchecked police force of thugs, he convinced the citizens that invading surrounding nations was the right thing to do. His said these countries threatened Germany’s peace and security.

As Hitler’s power grew, so did his ruthlessness. By merely giving the order, he cast out the Jews, homosexuals and every person deemed unsuitable. Then he murdered them... millions of them.

Democracy vanished in the rise of his fascism, all, he repeatedly told the Germans, in the name of protecting them. All lies, but so effective in maintaining the power he had over their fear.

He questioned his critics. He told them they were traitors to patriotism. He insisted on loyalty to his cause; he tolerated nothing less.

Have we forgotten how this madman became a dictator? We have if we allow Rumsfeld and Bush to compare their critics to the development of fascism in Germany.

And if we allow our leaders to trick us with their words, what is to guarantee the same will not happen to us?

 

  The saying goes that "at least when Clinton lied nobody died."
How true.
President Clinton was impeached because he lied about Monica Lewinsky. While he was wrong to lie, why are we tolerating the arrogance and lies of the Bush Administration? Not only is George W. lying to us, but Cheney, Condoleezza Rice and Rumsfeld as well.
We have lost nearly 3,000 soldiers in Iraq. We invaded Iraq because we were lied to by Bush about Weapons of Mass Destruction. Iraq had none.
We were lied to about the connection between Iraq and Osama bin Laden. It's only recently been confirmed that there was no connection...in fact, Saddam rebuffed bin Laden.
Bush and Cheney are blaming the CIA for false intelligence. Guess what? The CIA says Bush is nuts...they are saying the White House pressured them into saying Saddam Hussein had WMD.
What you may not know, but I remember, is how back in the early 80's the United States, Reagan, the first President Bush (then Vice-President) and the government supported Iraq and Hussein in their war against Iran. The United States supplied Hussein with hundreds of millions of dollars in weapons. The White House is hoping you'll forget all of that of course...including the pictures of Rumsfeld in jovial hand-shaking pictures with Saddam Hussein. That's why they want Hussein's trials to end with the death penalty...Hussein knows too much about just how two-faced the U.S. can be...how our government manipulates the truth.
Bush is now secretly supporting an ABC docudrama which fictionalizes the events of 9/11 placing the blame for the attacks on the Clinton Administration. All lies. In fact it was the Clinton Administration, through aide Richard Clark, that was compiling the evidence against bin Laden and even wrote a report about the threat of bin Laden to the United States and the imminent threat of bin Laden and a major terrorist attack...all of which was ignored by Bush in August 2001, just days before 9/11.
In the meantime, the United States has spent hundreds of billions fighting a useless war...money that has been siphoned from crucial domestic programs like health care, social security, Medicare, victims of Hurricane Katrina...you name it!
Thanks to Bush we can't take water and toothpaste on an airplane. Thanks to Bush we have to take off our shoes when we fly! Doesn't that make you feel safer?
Thanks to Bush we have one of the most gargantuan agencies of all time, the Department of Homeland Security, wasting even more taxpayer dollars in a bureaucratic nightmare...and all the reports are that with all of this spending this White House has left us no safer than before 9/11...perhaps worse off (read the recent book by Kean and Hamilton - chairmen of the earlier 9/11 Commission if you don't believe me.)
30,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed and Iraq is on the verge of civil war. As I said earlier nearly 3,000 American troops have been killed. Tens of thousands of families in the United States are without their fathers and mothers because Bush is keeping them redeployed in Afghanistan and Iraq.
On top of that he's even deployed the National Guard from all 50 states...leaving us at home without our crucial protection in the event of an emergency.
What does it take to stop the insanity of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and their henchman Karl Rove?
Have you forgotten how 3 years ago Bush flew a fighter jet onto an aircraft carrier and declared "Mission Accomplished!" in the Iraqi War?
So why are we still there?
And now, because things are going so badly for him, he's trying to distract us with his speeches about the war on terror.
George Bush is the terrorist. He wouldn't intervene in the recent Israel and Lebanon crisis so hundreds died. He's ticked off Iran with his arrogance. North Korea is so tired of George Bush they are firing off test missiles as they prepare their nuclear programs.
Most of the world considers the United States an aggressive tiger...willing to do whatever it takes to impose its' will.
Help prove that it's not working...save the United States, the lives of our soldiers, our civil rights and our tax dollars!
Write, e-mail or phone your elected officials today. Tell them to start impeachment hearings on George W. Bush...the worst president ever to take office in the United States...oh, that's right, he didn't even win the popular vote in 2000...that was Al Gore.

 

  W. is now fighting with his own party over his need to torture people beyond the constraints of the Geneva Convention. Once again, the narrow mindedness of this President is showing. Doesn't he realize the Geneva Convention also protects Americans abroad? If he gets his way, all the rules are tossed out and the horrible tortures of anything goes prior to World War II return. Once again President Bush demonstrates his short-term mentality...(and I cannot tell you how much it hurts me to use those two words together in a sentence "President" and "Bush"...)

But don't take my word for it...listen to John McCain, Arizona Senator and Presidential hopeful, who was a prisoner of war during Vietnam, suffering torturing at the hands of his captors. He is unwilling to back down on the issue of prisoner interrogations, vehemently disagreeing with the Bush White House.

"His decision to take a stand on this issue is not based on a political calculation,” said Eileen McMenamin, his spokeswoman. “He believes this is the right thing to do to protect American servicemen and women, and our values.”

Mr McCain has received backing from Colin Powell, the secretary of state during the first four years of the Bush administration.

In a statement that stunned the world and shocked the White House, Powell stated in a letter to McCain: “The world is beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism. To redefine Common Article 3 [of the Geneva conventions] would add to those doubts. Furthermore, it would put our own troops at risk,”

Senator McCain's position is that, "We are not saying the CIA cannot carry out a programme,” “We are saying it cannot amend the Geneva conventions, which calls for the kind of treatment of prisoners that fall under Common Article 3.”

Naturally, going against common sense, Bush vowed to “resist any bill...” that does not carry forward his wishes to re-write the Geneva Convention to allow torture.

This is no surprise. What does Bush know about being in the military...let alone a war.