Our country was founded by true heroes. People like Patrick Henry, who saw America as a united country. People like Alexander Hamilton, who saw America as an Industrial empire and was argueably the smartest person alive at his time. People like the senseable Ben Franklin, Jefferson, John Adams, Washington, Sam Adams, and Daniell Morgan. These people risked their fortunes, their lives, their families, everything for a cause. They weren’t politicians, they were leaders.
Our country has met great struggles. Whether it was the British invasion of 1812, the Civil War, the great depression, we’ve always come out on top and with our ideals intact. Almost to the present day, we remained an Idealistic nation and a symbol for good.
This changed when the Cold War ended. America was at the very uncontested top of the food chain. This has never happened in History before. It caused some pretty bad reprecussions. And here is where History starts to repeat itself again.
Every nation that has been the only superpower in the world has always resorted to the barbaric imperialism and ruthless terror that ensues. Be it Rome, England, the Muslims, The Aztecs and the Chineese. All were the absolute lords of their Domains.
We are the Lords of our Domain now. No one comes close to our power. A United Front of the world against us is impossible. We rule like Kings over the Peasants. And its getting worse.
President Bush. The Charismatic Moron from Texas. He attained political power through his father (argue what you want, if he hadn’t been Bush Sr.'s son, he wouldn’t of even gone to the Primaries). He was being called a poor leader before September 11th, and now he is an efficient, but evil, leader.
President Bush is Hitler ver. 2.0. No he is not a gaser of Jews, that’s not what I am comparing him to. He is a person who took a great tradegy, in Hitler’s case the Great Depression, and used it to shape his power and to effect our nation. After the attacks, President Bush used mainly words, and little action, to bring the American people to his side. Yes, he’s put out some good plans and a few good ideas, mostly the ideas of his Aid’s.
However, he’s done a lot more harm to our nation. Something out of Geoge Orwell’s 1984, the first thing he did was pass the “Patriot Act”. A huge bill practically giving the President free reign to legally execute and imprison who he wishes. He also now can legally violate our privacy. Why did Congress not vote this down? Because of the President’s huge approval rating. Because of the President’s words, and not his actions.
He continues on, changing laws to fit his war. He first makes a legit attack, in Afganistan, to make Americans feel like he is doing something. In fact he is doing quite a bit, breaking the back of the people who performed 9/11, on live TV.
Now it changes. He begins to ignore the true facts. The tanking economy, the huge companies cheating the people, real terrorist problems. President Bush doesn’t care about all this, he’s trying to find a way to get his approval rating back up. So, he targets Iraq. A small country of only 20 million, ravaged by our just war in 1991. President Bush looks at Iraq, and sees a few months of boosted Approval ratings.
He’s using the same language I heard Hitler using. Things like “Defending the American people” and “Protecting the Homeland”. Hitler himself was incredibly popular during his time. And used his version of the Secret Military Tribunal to take out the opposition. Luckily for us, President Bush probably doesn’t plan to convert us to a Facism, or to Blitz Canada (though it would be amusing).
No, President Bush is doing this to further his own ends. He wants to remain in political power for another 6 years, maybe longer. He is doing this for those who pay him to. Enron was the #1 Contributer to the Bush campaign. You might wonder why no Enron executives have been even charged with a crime. Bush is in camp with the oil companies, he used to be an oil baron himself. And theres lots of room in Iraq for oil companies with Saddam gone.
Now, like I said, I’m not seeing President Bush going crazy on the scale of Hitler. He’s not smart enough for that. However, he is turning this country into a bully, a conservative empire, and is losing sight of the ideals we were founding on. Peace, Justice, and the American way. America has been a symbol of democracy, peace, and liberty for 226 years. If we’re going to stay that way for another 226 years, President Bush has to go.