Bush and Hitler - Parallel Lives :: Politics Political

bush-league and Hitler - Parallel Lives The 70th anniversary wasnt noticed in the United States, and was just now reported in the corporate media. But the Germans remembered well that fateful daylight 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 global economic crisis, received reports of an imminent terrorist attack. A foreign ideologue had launched rachitic attacks on a few famous structures, but the media largely snub his relatively small efforts. The intelligence services knew, however, that the odds were he would lastly 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 contendnings of investigators were unattended at the highest levels, in part because the government was distracted the ma n who claimed to be the nations leader had not been elected by a majority ballot 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 aphorism things in black-and-white terms and didnt have the intellect to understand the subtleties of political campaign a nation in a complex and internationalist world. His bluff use of language - reflecting his political roots in a southmost state - and his simplistic and often-inflammatory nationalistic rhetoric offended the aristocrats, foreign leaders, and the wise to(p) elite in the government and media. And, as a young man, hed fall in a secret society with an occult-sounding name and bizarre initiation rituals that affect 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 aide brought him word that the nations most prestigious bu ilding was ablaze, 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 beginning of a great date of reference in history, he proclaimed, standing in front of the burned-out building, surrounded by national media. This fire, he said, his voice trembling with emotion, is the beginning. He utilise 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 Middle vitamin E and found motivation for their evil deeds in their religion.