Okay, first of all, Saddam did not kill millions of his people. In fact, no where near. The US invasion killed more innocent Iraqis than Saddam ever did with his gassings. Studies have been done over a year ago, and they concluded that over 100,000 innocent Iraqis have been killed as a result of the US invasion of Iraq. And this was over a year ago. Meaning this was before it began to get even more tense. Its also before the battle for Fallujah, which produced some of the greatest casualties.

What makes a US bomb killing an innocent Iraqi more moral than an Iraqi bomb?

Not to mention US economic sanctions which has killed far more than the US invasion of Iraq and Saddam's brutal reign put together. Or not to mention the thousands permanently effected by the poisening of Depleated Uranium. Or the thousands of offspring that turned out to be deformed or with disease. Which will continue as long as Depleated Uranium's half-life (4.5 billion years). The pro-life groups should be more upset about that.

This hypocracy can be seen in just about any war state in human history. And most certainly any fascist state. What I just did was not call Bush a Nazi, but rather just compared history with current events. If we aren't willing to do that, then history is inevetably going to repeat itself. Then it would be to late and unfortunately actually calling the government Nazi, or totalitarian might just be an accurate critique.

So Dylan, that is why I as well as others commonly compare (not call) not just Hitler, but other figures in history to not only Bush, but other figures in current events.

The reason why Hitler is picked so quickly to compare Bush with, is because Hiter has really become the embodyment of unjustified aggression. In fact, the Geneva Convention was not mainly called, on crimes against humanity in response to the holocaust, but rather its main purpose was to critique aggressive action against other sovereign states. Bush is one of the first in our history as Americans to really take our country down the path of aggressive "crusades" (as Bush likes to call them) against sovereign states not only against the United Nations and the vast majority of the international community but also against a defensless and mostly harmless state. And some would say, acquiring natural resources at the expense of innocent lives and the essential liberties of the American people. This hasn't really been seen in a while, and Hitler has been made the icon for this type of unjustified aggressive action. And that is why people compare Hitler's actions with Bush's actions.

I most certainly understand that Bush is not Hitler. I understand that he is not just like Hitler. Bush certainly isn't engaging in ethnic cleansing at home, and certainly isn't sending Jews into a mass systematic killing and torchure. And I'm sure most people who do compare Hitler with Bush do understand this as well. I am not calling Bush Hitler, nor am I saying that Bush is running parallel with Nazi doctrine.

However, what I am doing is comparing current events which are so easily skewed in propaganda and different radical beliefs, with events in history that we as the human race or at least as Americans have come to consensus on. Hitler is the embodyment, and the icon of unjustified aggression throughout the world and esspecially viewed so in America. To come to terms with a different reality than what you hear out of Bush's own mouth and media bias, one must view it in a historical perspective. There are many historical figures that I could compare Bush with (Charles II of Spain [ , Kidding]), but Hitler seems to be the most well known historical figure for an example of unjustified aggression.

And I am actually more tolerant of the ignorance of someone calling Bush exactly like Hitler, or like Stalin, than the ignorance of someone that refuses to come to terms with historical example. So really I'm actually more mad at you than far left people calling him Hitler or far Libertarian people calling him Stalin. Because like I said before, if we aren't willing to engage in debate facing historical example to our own political system, then history is inevetably going to repeat itself. Just look at Israel. Its hard to imagine that a people that underweant so much suffering and tyranny in Europe could turn around and commit some of the same types of attrocities on innocent people. But that's another debate.