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Even though the similarities between the third Reich and the Bush Administration are too numerous to list here, it is politically incorrect to note them. To do so, we are told, is to minimize how truly heinous the Nazi regime was. Apparently torture, rendition, secret prisons, suspension of habeas corpus, domestic spying should not be considered "dangerous" to a democracy.
Shortly after 9-11, I wrote an email to four friends stating my suspensions about the rapid and unprecedented collapse of the World Trade Centers buildings. As an engineer for more than 20 years, the collapse seems highly improbable. Within a week a friend advised me I was under investigation by the Bush Administration as a possible terrorist sympathizer. The effect was chilling, and I ceased writing or even speaking to anyone about my concerns.
Congress has failed the American people by neglecting its oversight responsibilities. Bush and Cheney may be demonic, but they could have never succeeded in destroying our freedom in this country without that tacit approval of Congress. Nancy Pelosi has been particularly disappointing - intervening on behalf of the Bush Administration repeatedly the last two years, protecting them form the criminal investigations that should have brought them down. Pelosi is a political hack; if Democrats are ever to regain our respect, they will first have to dispose of her. She is a disaster.
