Re: [Marxism] Re: Bush's Speech [A response to Zell Miller's speech]

[mds <zenporcupinegrind@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday, September 3, 2004, at 06:37  pm, M. Junaid Alam wrote:
> The senator from Georgia opened his defense of Bush’s outlook on the 
> “war on terror” by reminding the audience of World War II and the 
> urgency of fighting Nazi Germany’s “crazy man across the ocean who 
> would kill us if [he] could.” It is a sad comment on the state of 
> public discourse in American society that no great issue can be 
> discussed, no pressing topic considered, without someone somewhere 
> immediately conjuring up the frightening image of Hitler’s hordes 
> sweeping across Europe and exclaiming that what we face in the present 
> is a reincarnation of that event.

Indeed, it's quite amusing that Miller parallels Iraq with Nazi 
Germany; it seems historical revisionism knows no bounds, or integrity. 
Then again, facts have never really been the primary concern of the day.

-Marc

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