Hitler, Bush, Obama

Jacob G. Hornberger / LewRockwell.com:
I don't know how President Bush and the Pentagon came up with the idea of establishing a new judicial system for trying terrorists, but there is the distinct possibility that they got the idea from German Chancellor Adolf Hitler. Yes, I know, there are going to be those who resent such a suggestion, exclaiming, "Just because the idea might have come from Hitler doesn't necessarily mean it's bad." They might point, for example, to the U.S. Interstate Highway System, which was inspired by Hitler's autobahn system. Or they might point to Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, whose programs were remarkably similar to the socialist and fascist programs of Hitler as well as those of Benito Mussolini and Joseph Stalin. (See Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt’s America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler’s Germany, 1933–1939 by Wolfgang Schivelbusch).

Posted by Editor at November 20, 2009 12:51 AM