Bush and Hitler - Parallel Lives :: Politics Political

Bush and Hitler - Par anyel Lives The 70th anniversary wasnt noticed in the United States, and was barely describe in the corporate media. But the Germans remembered well that fateful day seventy years ago - February 27, 1933. They commemorated the anniversary by joining in demonstrations for peace that mobilized citizens all across the world. It started when the government, in the midst of a worldwide economic crisis, received reports of an imminent terrorist attack. A foreign ideologue had launched feeble attacks on a hardly a(prenominal) famous buildings, but the media largely ignored his relatively small efforts. The intelligence services knew, however, that the odds were he would eventually succeed. (Historians are still arguing whether or not rogue elements in the intelligence service helped the terrorist the most recent research implies they did not.) But the warnings of investigators were ignored at the highest levels, in part because the government was flurry the man who claimed to be the nations leader had not been elected by a majority vote and the majority of citizens claimed he had no right to the powers he coveted. He was a simpleton, some said, a cartoon character of a man who saw things in black-and-white terms and didnt have the intellect to understand the subtleties of cut a nation in a complex and internationalist world. His coarse use of language - reflecting his political roots in a southernmost evince - and his simplistic and often-inflammatory nationalistic rhetoric offended the aristocrats, foreign leaders, and the well-educated elite in the government and media. And, as a young man, hed joined a enigma society with an occult-sounding name and bizarre initiation rituals that involved skulls and human bones. Nonetheless, he knew the terrorist was going to strike (although he didnt know where or when), and he had already considered his response. When an adjutant stork brought him word that the nations most prestigious building was ab laze, he verified it was the terrorist who had struck and then rushed to the scene and called a press conference. You are now witnessing the runner of a great epoch in history, he proclaimed, standing in front of the burned-out building, surrounded by national media. This fire, he said, his voice tremble with emotion, is the beginning. He used the occasion - a sign from God, he called it - to declare an all-out war on terrorism and its ideological sponsors, a people, he said, who traced their origins to the tenderness East and found motivation for their evil deeds in their religion.