George W Bush: The Rise & Fall of a Tyrant

by max blunt at 02:30PM (CEST) on April 11, 2007
The uncanny, detailed similarities between the personalities and behavior of Adolph Hitler and George W. Bush are hair-raising.

Hitler succeeded because the German people were complacent. Just as Americans are today.

To corroborate this, here is a historical look at the Bush presidency. Or is it?

The Rise & Fall of a Tyrant

It started when the government, in the midst of an economic crisis, received reports of an imminent terrorist attack. A foreign ideologue had launched feeble attacks on a few famous buildings, but the media largely ignored his relatively small efforts.

The intelligence services knew, however, that the odds were he would eventually succeed. But the warnings of investigators were ignored at the highest levels, in part because the government was distracted.

The man who claimed to be the nation's leader had not been elected by a majority vote and the majority of citizens claimed he had no right to the powers he coveted.

He was a simpleton, some said, a cartoon character of a man who saw things in black-and-white terms and didn't have the intellect to understand the subtleties of running a nation in a complex and internationalist world.

His coarse use of language - reflecting his political roots in a southernmost state - and his simplistic and often-inflammatory nationalistic rhetoric offended foreign leaders, and the well-educated elite in the government and media.

And, as a young man, he'd joined a secret society with an occult-sounding name and bizarre initiation rituals that involved skulls and human bones.

Nonetheless, he knew the terrorist was going to strike (although he didn't know where or when), and he had already considered his response.

When an aide brought him word that the nation's most prestigious buildings were ablaze, he verified it was the terrorist who had struck and then rushed to the scene and called a press conference. LINK