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Is Bush now sufficiently loose from his moorings that he is about to launch us into Iran?

The must-read Helena Cobban connects some dots and comes to that conclusion

Go check out her argument. What is particularly disheartening is that many Democrats have been ‘crying for blood’ on Iran, so they will probably support an invasion and prove yet again what useless fools they all are.

I’ve written here and here just about how stupid this will be.

But let’s just remind ourselves of a quick fact: Iran four times the size, three times the people, six times the economy of Iraq. Iraq is just smaller than France, Iran is nearly three times the size of France.

Posted by John Nordin at 09:20 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Kurt Schumacher, speaking in the Reichstag (German parliament) on February 23, 1932, referred to National Socialism (the Nazi’s) as “a continuous appeal to the inner swine in human beings,” unique in German history in its success in “ceaselessly mobilizing human stupidity.”

Quoted in Tony Judt, Postwar, p. 268 (material between the quoted phrases is from Judt).

The more things change ....

Doesn't this remind you of how Rove and the Republicans operate? Is Bush Hitler? Or are we the Germans, with our williness to accept a decline in democratic freedoms for no reason? There are more parallells between the Democratic party in 2006 and the ineffective Weimar politicians of the 30s than one would like.

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