For those who feel that Iraqi children are not fully human, comparisons of the Democrats and Republicans to Hitler are indeed strained. But it is only fair to point out that according to the Holocaust Museeum, Hitler killed approximately 1.2 million Jewish kids under the age of 13 in the concenration camps (further diagregation unaailable). How does that compare with the U.S. kid body count in Iraq.? The U.S. government has killed, conservatively, 1/2 million Iraq kids under the under the age of 5 with its sanctions curtestsy of Gore's Democrats and Bush's Republicans. Both of these p.r. enhances "Hitlers" are fully committed to continuation of the sanctions. On all the candidates, only Nader condemned the genocide by sanctions consistently, repeatedly, and unequivocally. I agree with Ms. Cox and feel that refusal to face ugly but very real facts about the closeness of the Democrats and Republicans to Hitler on genocide, especially genocide directed against children is somewhere between pathetic and contemptable. Killing off the children of Iraq is, of course hardly a deviation for the Democrats and Republicans. There's the "apology" by Clinton and Albright (hey where were Gore and Leiberman?) for the U.S.'s shameful blocking of moves to prevent genocide in Rwanda (see Ch. 15 of the "Report of Emminent Personages). Also when, inconveniently, the truth commision, partly funded by the U.S. concluded that the U.S funded killing machine committed genocide in Guatamala, Clinton applologized -- but of course the appology did not keep him and his Demo-Repub cronies from continued funding of the genocide of the Kurds by Turkey or the continuous shredding of the Geneva Convention by Isael as it uses U.S. supplied rockets, tanks and artilery to deal with the "threat"of Palestinian kids throwing rocks to protest Israeli aparthaid. This sixies lists needs a serious realy check. Is it about the spirit of the 60s or keeping in power the same Demos and indistinguishable (or scarcely distinguishable) Republicans who murdered the Vietnamese by the million? Tom Nagy George Washington University Tony Edmonds wrote: > Carrol Cox wrote: > > >We have no friends in either of the parties. To speak of being > >between them is as silly as to speak of being between Hitler > >and Goebbels. > > Isn't this analogy pretty strained, indeed insulting. Whatever their flaws, > Bush and Gore are no Hitler and Stalin! > > Tony Edmonds > Ball State University
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