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[somuch]

After the cold war,highest and still increased military expenditure set the US more powerful than ever before.Till now the US is acknowledged to be the most powerful country in the world,no country can against it ,or will be punished in economy,policy,force,etc by the US unilaterally.The war in Iraq proved the US is not enough to be the most powerful country but the king of all countries.Now almost all the rest peoples are entangled in the war against the muslims by the series actions of the US,who lived in peace.We have to be careful the bomb attacks and abducions.Maybe you Americans will say it's because of the 9/11,but have you ever thought that why the terror attacks didn't happen in the years before 1990s.I found the terror attacks were increased with the more hegemonic the US was.Currently,the invasion is an era of division that turned the UN off.The international rules and international laws were broke in the war,the UN was turned to a dummy as the League of Nations during 1930s.It is very very dangerous,as no one country can stop the US do anything what she want to.The current situation is similar as once before WW II,so I'm afraid another national fascist is being formed by the BuSh administration now,Bush just as Hitler

[LucentShade]

We can't know for sure if the US is really headed toward fascism, but I would not say that it's beyond possibility.

[lioness]

Hitler had a kind of "vision" of a better, German world. And he believed in this vision. He had a dream... Bush doesn't have any vision at all, he just wants to be elected one more time and has to do something to be more popular. A war is one of the most primitive and easy ways how to do it. Hitler's objective had a way called ideology. Please, don't think that I admire him, yet I want to show you, that you shouldn't compare Bush to Hitler, because they have different objectives. Hitler wanted a better world for his nation (using inhuman and barbarian methods). Bush wants to be the president as long as it is possible (using the same methods). That's all what they have in common. This is my opinion.
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[pugachevV]

Isn't it also possible that President Bush has a vision of a better world?
Perhaps the world today is where America was about 150 years ago, with outlaws holding power in some parts of it. Eventually law and order was brought there by the government.
As we are moving closer towards a world goverment today, the Americans and their allies are trying to establish law and order in parts of the world where the people are living under harsh dictatorships.
Incidentally, if President Bush's main concern was to get re-elected, he would not have dealt with Iraq at all.

[somuch]

As far as I know,the common ground of both Bush and Hitler,is to start a war simply because their individual gains,and who gave them the power to do so!The world is once again separated into Islam world and non-Islam world,and it is always separated into many parts by the human being.Ridiculously,now the people who live in the two separate worlds have to fight each other just because of the mind of their leader.I think it's mostly due to Bush the cowboy from texas,it's him whom put this world into enmity,killing,extremism by starting a war.So I blame devil Bush and also blame devil Osama Bin Laden.

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[lioness]

[pugachevV]

I'm not trying to convince you of anything, lioness.
I am merely saying that it is possible that President Bush has good intentions vis-a-vis Iraq.
If you have a closed mind you will deny that possibility, no doubt.
Do you consider that America had no part in Poland's freedom?

[obelix]

The word is Hegemony: it means leadership - especially by one state of a confederacy, and it comes from the greek word hegemon=leader.

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