On 14 Sep 2002 at 15:15, joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
> On 14 Sep 2002 at 20:53, Sean Kenny wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2002-09-14 at 19:56, joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
> >
> > > Godwin's Law only applies where the parallels are not manifest; I
> > > see the parallels between the European fascist Hitler and the
> > > Arabian fascist Saddam (and, I might add, the Serbian fascist
> > > Milosevich) as too obvious to ignore, like an elephant in the room
> > > whose very presence demands that we address it.
> >
> > and of course the American fascist Bush
> >
> > oops did I say that!
> >
> Bush was (very disputedly) elected and will have to stand for re-
> election. Even if he wins a second term, after that, he's US history.
> Saddam, OTOH, is a fascist dictator-for-life, who has engaged in
> aggression, assassination, gassing villages full of women and
> children, and pursuing nuclear weapons with which to kill masses of
> people more effectively. It is high time that his forcibly maintained
> perpetual term in office was truncated.
>
A second distinction: Neither Hitler nor Saddam ever left a land which
they occupied unless forcibly expelled, and while there, they both
brutally subjugated its inhabitants. The US, OTOH, has gone into lands
where the inhabitants have been brutally subjugated and proceeded to
liberate them, and has justifiably been criticized in some instances for
subsequently withdrawing from them too soon.
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