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Rumsfeld Likens Chavez's Rise to Hitler
LAS VEGAS SUN ^
| February 03, 2006 at 5:26:3 PST
Posted on 02/03/2006 5:40:36 AM PST by xzins
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To: xzins
Chavez is more like Allende, the Chilean president elected in 1970. Both leftist leaders were elected democratically, but then they dedicated all their energy to destroy the democratic institutions that existed previously to their elections.
Nixon knew that democratically-elected demagogues who want to subvert the democratic process must be stopped. Therefore, Nixon supported the coup against Allende.
Unlike Nixon, President Bush missed a golden opportunity by refusing to support the coup against Chavez in 2002. We will pay dearly for years to come for this political misjudgment.
Imagine if Hillary gets elected, packs the US Supreme Court with 10 Justices loyal to her, and starts acting like a dictator. Every time she's taken to court, the US Supreme Court sides with her. There is nothing to be done to stop her under the political landscape created by her machinations.
Concerned about the destruction of our Republic, a group of military officers put Hillary in prison and create a national unity government until elections can be held. Nevertheless, all our foreign allies side with Hillary, and she's restored to power.
How pathetic that would be. That's the way I see the Bush administration's failure to support the anti-Chavez coup.
Now there is little hope of ever getting rid of Chavez, since he has 'amended' the Venezuelan constitution to guarantee his power until his death, the Venezuelan Supreme Court is full of Chavez' appointees, and the military leadership has been cleansed of any anti-Chavez leaders.
To: stuartcr
Read my last. It has already started, and Chavez started it.
He gave money to Bin Laden.
To: Incitatus
The obvious comparison is to Castro, before whose herm Chavez has groveled burning incense all his adult life.
To: xzins
With all due respect to Rummy, I believe a comparison to Lenin and his merry band of Bolsheviks would be more apt.
After all, Chavez is a communist who is always rambling-ranting-raving about the bourgeoisie and the evils of capitalism.
hmmm, how do you say "Power To The Proletariat!" in Spanish?
¡Energía Al Proletariado!
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posted on
02/03/2006 11:10:39 AM PST
by
Condor51
(Better to fight for something than live for nothing - Gen. George S. Patton)
To: xzins
In the not-too-distant future everyone on earth will have been characterized as Hitler. The avant-garde should start looking for a fresh metaphor any day now.
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posted on
02/03/2006 11:13:43 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
To: xzins
I am disappointed in Rumsfeld. Hitler was not elected. He was appointed because Von Papen wanted to get back at Kurt Von Schleicher. Von Papen thought Hitler could be controlled. But in the election before Hitler's ascendency to the Chancellorship, the Nazis actually lost votes, and they were never close to a majority.
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posted on
02/03/2006 11:13:46 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: lentulusgracchus
I bet there are lots that have given money to Bin Laden, that we are not reacting this way to.
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posted on
02/03/2006 11:22:27 AM PST
by
stuartcr
(Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
To: xzins
Can you ping me to the thread where Chavez has his unhinged response? It's a-comin'.
To: xzins
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld likened Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to Adolf Hitler, Guess that means Mother Sheeham is cavorting with Hitler. AND yet she wants to meet with the WH Hitler - I am confused. /sarcasm
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posted on
02/03/2006 11:45:17 AM PST
by
p23185
(Why isn't attempting to take down a sitting Pres & his Admin during wartime considered Sedition?)
To: ConsentofGoverned
I am told Kennedy family has connections with Citgo. Well isn't that special - a Keenedy connected with the new Hitler.
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posted on
02/03/2006 11:46:24 AM PST
by
p23185
(Why isn't attempting to take down a sitting Pres & his Admin during wartime considered Sedition?)
To: dmz
No Rumsfeld just like to evoke Godwin's Law :-)
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posted on
02/03/2006 12:03:48 PM PST
by
pganini
To: p23185
I have ties with Citgo too, it's called a credit card, and I use it all the time, and I don't even know any Kennedys!!
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posted on
02/03/2006 12:17:23 PM PST
by
stuartcr
(Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
To: xzins
Don't care too much for Hitler comparisons from, to, with anyone, anytime.
To: SJSAMPLE
Hard for me to imagine the National Socialist German Workers (Nazi) party as even remotely conservative.
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posted on
02/03/2006 5:01:15 PM PST
by
Milhous
(Sarcasm - the last refuge of an empty mind.)
To: SAJ
I was going to, again, expose this myth (Hitler being elected) if I hadn't seen that you already had. Thank you.
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posted on
02/03/2006 5:08:51 PM PST
by
Timmy
To: p23185
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posted on
02/03/2006 5:09:24 PM PST
by
Milhous
(Sarcasm - the last refuge of an empty mind.)
To: xzins
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posted on
02/03/2006 5:47:03 PM PST
by
M. Espinola
(Freedom is never free)
To: xzins
The only reason that Chavez is in power is Russia and China.
To: Nextrush
Chavez is doing what Hitler did in 1933 and 1934, using his democratic election to consolidate power, persecute opponents etc. Try the V-Crisis website for some perspective on this. There will be elections in Venezuela later this year. They will look a lot less free than the previous ones moving in the direction of a one party election which is what happened to elections in Germany in the 1933-34 period. Its a good comparison for Rumsfeld to make. Hitler was a lot more than the Holocaust, although its his most notorious act. There's an old book called "Berlin Diary" by William L. Shirer, not to mention his large book "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich." Both books give perspective on the tactics and philosophy of Hitler and the Nazis that are replicated all over the world today from Islamofascist countries to the mainstream media in the United States to Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.
The difference in this case is that Chavez has Daniel Ortega, Bolivia, Cuba, Russia/"Former" USSR, and China to back him up.
To: gondramB
I agree. The comparison should not be made.
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posted on
02/03/2006 8:11:29 PM PST
by
doug from upland
(INDICTING HILLARY -- now that is something that's good for America)
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