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Just another former infatuation junkie

On late-night television, Jay Leno’s guest Dennis Miller makes an appearance to blast and threaten the peace protestors and tell them to “cut the Nazi stuff.”

“If you’re in a peace march,” said Miller, “and the person next to you has a sign saying Bush is Hitler, forget the peace thing for a moment and beat his ass.”

Miller said this because he feels very strongly that George W. Bush is “not Hitler.” Speaking as one of those people who has drawn connections between Dubya and Aitch before, I thought maybe I should re-examine this comparison – given Miller’s adamant demands that I do so.

And it occurs to me that he may be right. After all, Dubya’s not quite as short as Aitch was. And he doesn’t have that Charlie Chaplin moustache, either. He hasn’t invaded Poland, and I guess it makes a difference that Dubya has yet to march millions of Jews, homosexuals, and Rroma into the ovens.

Of course, Hitler didn’t do all of this, himself. Not during his first couple of years in office, anyway. He hosted Olympic games, outlawed other political parties, and talked big about being the greatest nation in the world.

So, maybe Dubya isn’t as bad as Aitch. After all, Dubya just stole the election from its true winner. He just exercised his family influence to weasel his way into office, just as he had exercised it to get into the Air National Guard ahead of more deserving applicants during international conflict. He only refused to acknowledge the world-wide AIDS crisis when Africa set up their fund (but, hey, he set up his own fund later – and while it was significantly smaller in funding and scope, got to call it “the biggest and first of such funds, ever”). In a few casual lines, all he did was destroy decades of diplomatic work with China and other nations. He’s called for an end to affirmative action. And under him, laws have been passed and approved that do away with protection against illegal search and seisure and have set the stage for home invasion, wide-spread wire taps, secret police forces with the power to arrest and interrogate without filing formal charges, and secret courts that can convict and sentence you without ever having to admit that you were on trial. And he’s just been given the exclusive power to revoke any American’s citizenship if he feels they’re associated with a “terrorist organization or party,” like, say, the Democrats? Or the Greens? Or anything other than Republican?

Can somebody tell me why G. Gordon Liddy was frightened of jack-booted thugs during the Clinton administration? Clinton was a boy scout. All he ever did was to get a few favors of the oral variety from one of his interns. To the best of my knowledge, Clinton never directly challenged my faith in my nation by openly calling for an end to my civil rights. For that matter, Clinton made his own statements about going into Iraq, but never pressed the United Nations with vague threats.

As for vague threats, how about Dennis Miller? Suggesting that after we’re through bombing Iraq, we should bomb France? And then Germany? Telling us to forget the peace thing for a moment to beat up a fellow protestor, just because he states the obvious? Face it, people. As far as most of the world is concerned right now, Dubya’s Amewica is part of the “Axis of Evil.” Right up there with our most vocal supporters – England and Italy. We’re loose cannons with greater nuclear capability than anybody else on the face of the Earth.

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