What I hear when I hear Bush say "Nazis" and a "struggle"

[gulliver]

Another excuse. Nothing more, nothing less.

Bush and his GOP buddies have picked and lost a big, expensive war -- that is if the word "loss" still means anything. Naturally the Republicans wants to make it all part of a bigger picture. Naturally Bush wants to associate himself with victories over the Nazis and the Communists achieved by vastly better people than himself. There is no stronger testament to his smallness than that. He's cornered in a pool of his own bilge -- surrounded by shivering, spineless, desperate Republican yes-men and yes-women frightened for their political jobs.

The Dems job is to call Bush and his GOP enablers on this revolting, intelligence-insulting rubbish. Junior can widen the time scope to eons, the territorial scope to the Milky Way. He can try to make it all an epic saga and himself a hero. Bush's soaring, endless excuses won't cleanse the stain or dissipate the odor coming from Republicanism. It's failure. Exactly, unmistakably failure.

[ginnyinWI]

1. and people aren't as stupid as he thinks they are.

Most people have woken up and smelled the coffee. The consensus on CNN (Cooper, Roberts, etc) is that he was trying to invoke patriotic feelings among the WWII-ers in his audience. But that can easily backfire, because they of all people know he's no FDR or Truman. ...And I noticed he didn't try to bring up Social Security with them, either...;)

[IChing]

2. Nazis" and a "struggle"

Made me think of Bush's speech and Mein Kampf ,my struggle,the original title Hitler chose was "Four and a Half Years of Struggle against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice."
His editor made him change that.
According to Freud's theory of psychic determinism, there is no randomness in the life of the mind. That which is uttered or expressed contains meaning.
The speech in Salt Lake was revealing in it's ideology.

bushenFuhrer

"The war we fight today is more than a military conflict; it is the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st century. On one side are those who believe in the values of freedom and moderation — the right of all people to speak, and worship, and live in liberty. And on the other side are those driven by the values of tyranny and extremism — the right of a self-appointed few to impose their fanatical views on all the rest. Some Americans didn't support my decision to remove Saddam Hussein; many are frustrated with the level of violence. But we should all agree that the battle for Iraq is now central to the ideological struggle of the 21st century. We will not allow the terrorists to dictate the future of this century — so we will defeat them in Iraq."

As the Nazi movement took hold—as Germany recovered her health and strength—Hitler affirmed his determination to protect his achievement. The rejuvenated Reich, Hitler insisted, "no one will in the future be able to shatter or tear asunder." The Nazi Movement would leave behind it a German body politic completely renewed internally, intolerant of anyone who "sins against the nation" and pitiless against anyone who shall attempt once more to "destroy or disintegrate this body politic."

The very idea he used totalitarism in his speech was revealing of self projection.

[Duke Newcombe]

3. Whenever someone breaks out the "Nazi" or "Hitler" comparisons...

...in all except the most convincing instances, their credibility goes down to zero.

Nice try...but they should have run that snippet by "the Rove (tm)" before trotting out that stupid noise...

Duke