Congressman Godwin

I guess once you're in Congress, you can say anything you want, as long as you don't care whether you're being re-elected.

Bush like Hitler, says first Muslim in Congress

Addressing a gathering of atheists in his home state of Minnesota, Keith Ellison, a Democrat, compared the 9/11 atrocities to the destruction of the Reichstag, the German parliament, in 1933. This was probably burned down by the Nazis in order to justify Hitler's later seizure of emergency powers.

"It's almost like the Reichstag fire, kind of reminds me of that," Mr Ellison said. "After the Reichstag was burned, they blamed the Communists for it, and it put the leader [Hitler] of that country in a position where he could basically have authority to do whatever he wanted."

This comparison is valid, and no amount of "b-b-but six million Jews" is going to change the fact that the methods are the same. People who know what they are talking about (as opposed to people who just use Hitler's name for shock value) don't compare Bush's accomplishments to Hitler's accomplishments, nor Bush's crimes to Hitler's crimes; they compare the two leaders' use of propaganda, and their gradual insinuation of dictatorial privilege into the law.

To applause from his audience of 300 members of Atheists for Human Rights, Mr Ellison said he would not accuse the Bush administration of planning 9/11 because "you know, that's how they put you in the nut-ball box - dismiss you".

Oh, come on...you were doing so well.

Whether or not they planned it, they planned FOR it. They did not plan for it in order to stop it; they planned for it in order to use it.

Mark Drake, of the Republican party in Minnesota, said: "To compare the democratically elected leader of the United States of America to Hitler is an absolute moral outrage which trivialises the horrors of Nazi Germany."

Hitler was democratically elected, you dolt.

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