Who's "leading" the country?
In case you missed the USA Today profile on George W, Ugga Bugga has a good summary of it. Go read it. Particularly interesting I found was this:
Bush advisers say he will revise the war plan if he becomes convinced that it's not working.
Okay, I'm about to make a comment about what happened with Hitler in World War II, in case there are Freepers or general pro-war conservatives reading this (man I'd be soooo psyched if there were) let me just say that I'm not saying Bush is Hitler. I never say that, I say there are similarities, but to say "Bush is like Hitler in this way, therefore is exactly like Hitler in every way" is a historically inaccurate simplification. But of course, the counter I hear on the right is always something along the lines of, "Bush isn't like Hitler in some specific ways (ie Bush doesn't have a moustache), therefore is not like Hitler in anyway at all." Please, spare me that.
Anyway, on to my Hitler parallel. The German tribes have had a history of strategic geniouses, from the Prussians and so on, and Hitler benefited from this by having some enormously brilliant tacticians at his disposal who helped him take over most of the European land mass in about a month. And as long as things were going well, Hitler let these tacticians do what they do best.
Of course then came D-Day, and as the Allies were making their final push into Berlin, Hitler, who fancied himself knowledgeable of military strategy started more and more deciding on the strategies of the German Army. As a result the Allies had an easier time than not of defeating the Nazi war machine.
This isn't uncommon. It's part of the same hubris that makes someone decide they can be monarch of earth that they will keep the people who could help them from doing their jobs.
And now there's Bush. Hitler had at least some experience in the Army during World War I to make him believe that he knew something about military tactics. Bush's military experience is just going AWOL from the Texas Air National Guard during Vietnam.
So, what does this mean? It means if things go bad, Bush will make things worse. It means that a war that's already pretty messy will get worse.
Support our troops. Get Bush the Hell out of the White House.
In case you missed the USA Today profile on George W, Ugga Bugga has a good summary of it. Go read it. Particularly interesting I found was this:
Bush advisers say he will revise the war plan if he becomes convinced that it's not working.
Okay, I'm about to make a comment about what happened with Hitler in World War II, in case there are Freepers or general pro-war conservatives reading this (man I'd be soooo psyched if there were) let me just say that I'm not saying Bush is Hitler. I never say that, I say there are similarities, but to say "Bush is like Hitler in this way, therefore is exactly like Hitler in every way" is a historically inaccurate simplification. But of course, the counter I hear on the right is always something along the lines of, "Bush isn't like Hitler in some specific ways (ie Bush doesn't have a moustache), therefore is not like Hitler in anyway at all." Please, spare me that.
Anyway, on to my Hitler parallel. The German tribes have had a history of strategic geniouses, from the Prussians and so on, and Hitler benefited from this by having some enormously brilliant tacticians at his disposal who helped him take over most of the European land mass in about a month. And as long as things were going well, Hitler let these tacticians do what they do best.
Of course then came D-Day, and as the Allies were making their final push into Berlin, Hitler, who fancied himself knowledgeable of military strategy started more and more deciding on the strategies of the German Army. As a result the Allies had an easier time than not of defeating the Nazi war machine.
This isn't uncommon. It's part of the same hubris that makes someone decide they can be monarch of earth that they will keep the people who could help them from doing their jobs.
And now there's Bush. Hitler had at least some experience in the Army during World War I to make him believe that he knew something about military tactics. Bush's military experience is just going AWOL from the Texas Air National Guard during Vietnam.
So, what does this mean? It means if things go bad, Bush will make things worse. It means that a war that's already pretty messy will get worse.
Support our troops. Get Bush the Hell out of the White House.
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