"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier..." Truth in jest!

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http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/2002/10/29_Dictator.html

[lady lib]

1. The Rude Pundit has some input on this subject today

12/16/2005
Do We Have To Wait Until Bush Purges 20 Million of Us Before We Can Say He's Like Stalin?:

...In America, we pretend, god, how we pretend, that we're not drifting precipitously into dictatorship, despite a government that clearly behaves as if it has the powers of such tyranny. How else do you explain the Bush administration's blatant violation of criminal law in the President's authorization of spying by the NSA on perhaps thousands of American citizens, a story the "liberal" New York Times sat on for a year at the behest of the White House? Combined with the revelation of the Pentagon database of "potential threats" to the nation that includes war protesters, and you've got some good ol' Soviet-style paranoia going on. If the government feels it has to monitor and/or control the speech and gatherings of its citizens, well, shit, may as well break out the ball vices, put up the posters of Bush standing on top of the corpses of traitors, and call it totalitarianism. <snip>

More Rude Punditry

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2. You will be tortured for that Stalin comment. n/t

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[area51]

3. Jest?

Bush wasn't joking. He wants to be the fuhrer.

[kath]

4. Here's a video clip of the 2nd time he said this, Dec. 18, 2000:

http://fpiarticle.blogspot.com/2004/11/bush-just-as-long-as-im-dictator.html

[wakemewhenitsover]

5. Wow!!

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