and of course.....Hitler

The other day I feel asleep watching the Daily Show on CTV and woke up to the morning show Canada AM. This is a morning show that I don't usually watch unless I know someone that's going to be on it. So it was rare to have it on. I tried my best to stay sleeping even though I could hear the baby crawling across the floor downstairs, but I awoke to some inflammatory language.



Hitler



Mr Allan Lichtman was a guest on the show and the question was posed to him, "Is Obama doing enough about the turmoil in Iran" Which I don't understand. I know that Obama is the second coming of Christ, but I thought his job was to save America, then go from country to country healing the wounded and making water into wine. Mr Licthman opined that America should be doing more to help the unrest in the country, and then.....here it comes....he said that this situation was much like Hitler in 1939.



Are you fucking kidding me? Hitler? Can we make a rule that you have to be in the process of killing millions of innocent people before you're allowed to evoke the name Hitler.

For the record, there has never been another Hitler. Ever! All of these people that we think are shitheads, can be on the same scale, but they'll never be another #1.



Mr.Lichtman may have forgotten that Hitler was a real bad dude. And even though he's a political historian, he may have also forgot that in 1939, the US wasn't even involved with WWII! The fact that he would use this time in history as a jumping off point when it wasn't even a jumping off point for his own country then. And lets face it, the last time they involved themselves in the government of a country in the middle east...oh yeah, that's still going on. Stop going up to the global buffet and trying to get more when you haven't even finished what on your own plate!!!!



People just use the name Hitler whenever there's someone real bad, but he was truly the devil! He thought that he could polarize a region, instill his values and beliefs on unsuspecting countries. He killed civilians and combatants based on their religion. Wait a minute, what happened in Iraq again? Not even Saddam was in Hitler's league, and he killed thousands. The Taliban Killed thousands.



Hitler killed Millions. Look at your bank account. Add four more zeros and you might be in the neighbourhood of the amount of people that died. Millions



If Allan Lichtman, FOX and many of the other American pundits are looking for a comparison about the trouble in Iran then they should take the facts.



It was an election in which the candidate that was favoured to win, didn't. They had a recount that seemed pointless because the people that did the recounting appear to be in the pocket of the guy they say won. The winner is brash, and crass and routinely says inappropriate things in public. He wants to stand alone in the world, thinks that it's "us" versus "them", and has no interest in the global community and their opinions. His ego drives him and the people that disagree with him are imprisoned, sanctioned, or labelled a trader. People are rising up against the tyranny, but are trying to be muzzled by the government



If only there was a a country in the past ten years with a similar scenario, then we could learn from the mistakes there. Instead of trying to right the wrong from sixty years ago.



There will never be another a Hitler, we know that, but we should ensure that there isn't another supreme leader of any country that doesn't allow it's people to have a voice, protest policy, or disagree without the fear of anti-patriotism. The people in Iran who are standing up for themselves are no different than the people that protested the War in Iraq.



Allan Lichtman is a smart man, and he worked on the voting irregularities in Florida in 2000, but if he and the rest of the pundits are wondering why Obama isn't doing more, or not enough, Hitler shouldn't be the stick they use to poke him. If they truly want Obama to step into a 1939, Hitler type situation, then maybe they should stop off in Dar fur. They don't even get a chance to vote...and the casualties are nearing the millions. It's not as sexy, they don't have oil, or nuclear technology, but they have millions of women being raped, children being killed and a country being destroyed. Lets save the "holier than thou" shit until we actually go to another country to help them.