Oh...I already know where this one is heading...
Tab (1000+ posts) Wed May-28-08 07:51 AM
Original message http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3328286
Bush compares today's wars to World War II efforts
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - President Bush, linking the wars of his tenure to the deadliest one in history, is asking the country to commit anew to postwar rebuilding.
In an address for Wednesday to more than 1,000 graduates of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Bush frames their futures by drawing back to the World War II generation. He links the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to postwar Germany and Japan six decades ago.
"America has assumed this obligation before," Bush said in prepared remarks released by the White House. "After World War II we helped Germany and Japan build free societies and strong economies. These efforts took time and patience, and as a result Germany and Japan grew in freedom and prosperity and are now allies of the United States."
The result, Bush says, was "generations of security and peace" in the United States.
"Today we must do the same in Afghanistan and Iraq," he says in the prepared comments. "And by helping these young democracies grow in freedom and prosperity we will once again reap the benefits in generations of security and peace."
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Another difference: It remains in debate within the country whether the pre-emptive Iraq war has bolstered U.S. security or weakened it. Bush has expressed no doubts it was warranted.
At least 4,085 U.S. military members have died in the Iraq war. More than 430 members of the U.S. military have died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department.
The U.S. death toll in World War II was roughly 406,000. Overall, tens of millions of people died. The conflict transformed the globe; chief U.S. enemies of that day, Germany and Japan, re-emerged as major allies.
Bush's speech was expected to compare air power and warfare techniques of World War II and today. He also was to talk about the differences in the enemies that U.S. forces face.
White House press secretary Dana Perino said Bush would zero in on one constant — "that freedom has the power to overcome tyranny and transform societies." That theme has underpinned Bush's foreign policy and was the calling of his second inaugural address.
Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080528/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush
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He wants to go down as either a 21st century Churchill or FDR, but he might end up going down as a 21st Century mini-Hitler
Here is what Hitler brought us:
iamjoy (1000+ posts) Wed May-28-08 08:12 AM
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2. Then Start Acting Like It
If this really is like WWII, let's start acting like.
No more new cars, any automobile factory left in the US should immediately be converted to building airplanes, ships and vehicles for the war effort.
How about some rationing? No more wasting gas (if anyone is at today's prices). If you ride alone, you ride with bin Laden.
But, let's not stop at gas. We all need to have victory gardens. If you live in a city apartment, well, you can help tend the one on your building's rooftop, or in the city park.
If this threat really is as great as Hitler it cannot be "fought" by our military alone.
I happen to agree with you, DUmmie
BrklynLib at work (974 posts) Wed May-28-08 08:24 AM
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3. There are simply no depths too deep for him to plunge into. What a total embarrassment he is...
to this country, and the human race in general.
He brings to mind the "strange" uncle that one would keep hidden in the attic or the back of the barn when company came...
you mean, Barry's uncle?
EstimatedProphet (1000+ posts) Wed May-28-08 08:43 AM
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11. Yes, this is just like WWII - only this time we're not the Allies.
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/images/maidanek3.jpg
KSinTX (1000+ posts) Wed May-28-08 09:04 AM
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14. McClellan would differ with the Bush assessment
"Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that the Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated "political propaganda campaign" led by President Bush and aimed at 'manipulating sources of public opinion' and 'downplaying the major reason for going to war.' "
World War II - Nazi Germany sinking American supply ships and Japan bombed Pearl Harbor
Iraq War - Halliburton, KBR & "Garden of Eden" in Middle East
Already using McClellan's book, I see.
Javaman (1000+ posts) Wed May-28-08 10:02 AM
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20. Yeah, everything now is just like it was then, except....
Edited on Wed May-28-08 10:02 AM by Javaman
there was no war declared by congress. We aren't on a war economy. There are virtually no sacrifices being made by the average citizen (other than those families that are having their sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, mothers, and fathers killed daily in Iraq),there are no corps having cut deals in their overhead for munition manufacturing, there is no rationing, there is no conservation, there is no call to help the nation other than to go SHOPPING, etc.
other than that, yeah, it's just like WWII.
