USA: former Reagan aide compares Bush to Hitler

By “Corey” cpmondello@yahoo.com

Wed Jan 10, 2007 9:15 am (PST)

From Raw Story [in the USA]:

Former Reagan aide compares Bush to Hitler

01/09/2007

An economist who once served as President Reagan’s Assistant Secretary of the Treasury compares President George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler in a column at the libertarian website Anti-war.com.

“Bush is like Hitler,” Paul Craig Roberts writes in a column entitled The Surge: Political Cover or Escalation?.

“He blames defeats on his military commanders, not on his own insane policy.”

“Like Hitler, he protects himself from reality with delusion,” Roberts continues.

“In his last hours, Hitler was ordering non-existent German armies to drive the Russians from Berlin.”

According to his Wikipedia entry, Roberts is “considered a Reagan conservative.”

Excerpts from column:

The new year began on the hopeful note that Bush’s illegal war in Iraq would soon be ended.

The repudiation of Bush and the Republicans in the November congressional election, the Iraq Study Group’s unanimous conclusion that the US needs to remove its troops from the sectarian strife Bush set in motion by invading Iraq, Donald Rumsfeld’s removal as defense secretary and his replacement by Iraqi Study Group member Robert Gates, the thumbs down given by America’s top military commanders to the neoconservatives’ plan to send more US troops to Iraq, and new polls of the US military that reveal that only a minority supports Bush’s Iraq policy, thus giving new meaning to “support the troops,” are all indications that Americans have shed the stupor that has given carte blanche to George W. Bush.

When word leaked that Bush was inclined toward the “surge option” of committing more troops by keeping existing troops deployed in Iraq after their replacements had arrived, NBC News reported that an administration official “admitted to us today that this surge option is more of a political decision than a military one.”

It is a clear sign of exasperation with Bush when an administration official admits that Bush is willing to sacrifice American troops and Iraqi civilians in order to protect his own delusions.

The American establishment, concerned by Bush’s egregious mismanagement, moved to take control of Iraq policy away from him. …

Full story:

The Surge: Political Cover or Escalation? by Paul Craig Roberts: here.

Iraq war and oil: here.