When in doubt, bring up Hitler and the Third Reich

i swear to god, i have NEVER heard more references to nazi germany in my life than i have during the past few years... somebody compares somebody else to hitler, lots of somebodies start hollering "foul" and, two weeks later, it happens all over again...

now, we're treated to the absurd spectacle of rummy raising the spectre of an islamic "empire" and comparing it to the rise of the third reich - AT THE SAME TIME that muslims around the world are burning embassies in protest over cartoon depictions of mohammed...

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is warning that Western countries must increase their defense budgets in order to prevent the rise of a "global extremist Islamic empire" that could be as deadly as Hitler's Third Reich.

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"During the 1920s, few people took seriously what some characterized as the mad ravings of a failed painter's book, Mein Kampf," Rumsfeld said. "Similarly, most people earlier ignored the excited utterances of an exiled lawyer -- a so-called rabble rouser -- named Lenin, who had published the pamphlet, 'What is to be Done?'

"But imagine," he posited, "if we could go back today, knowing what we know now about Adolph Hitler and Lenin, to warn the world about those two individuals before they spawned their movements and before literally tens of millions of human beings on this earth were victims -- were killed?"

sometimes, i wake up in the morning and am convinced that the world i thought i lived in has been replaced by some bizarre alternate universe where everything still looks the same but, underneath, is totally different...

what rummy and bushco really want, of course, is for all of us to be AFRAID, VERY, VERY AFRAID... screw 'em all... i ain't living my life in fear...

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