Can anyone honestly say that Bush is worse that these guys?

Question

• Adolf Hitler (Germany; 1939-1945): No explanation should really be needed on this one. If you don't have a clue, then congratulations on making it into Western.

• Mao ZeDong (China; 1958-61 and 1966-69): He founded the Chinese Communist party and was responsible for the deaths of more than 10 times as many people as Hitler.

• Joseph Stalin (USSR; 1929-1953): He launched "the Great Purge" in the 30s that rid the Communist Party of nearly every person who had brought him to power. According to a CNN article, Soviet nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov estimated more than 1.2 million party members (more than half the group) were arrested, and 600,000 of those died by torture or execution.

• Pol Pot (Cambodia; 1975-1979): He was influenced by Mao's cultural revolution, and 25 percent of Cambodia's population died from starvation, overwork and executions in Pol Pot's attempt to form a Communist peasant farming society. He conducted deadly purges to rid the area of the "old society," and anyone suspected of being disloyal was shot or bludgeoned with an ax.

• Kim Jong-il (North Korea; 1994-present): In the world's most tightly controlled society, roughly 250,000 civilians are in "re-education camps" and a majority of the nation is malnourished. But maybe that's only because he is so "ronry."

• Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe; 1980-present): While Africa isn't the greatest continent to live on, Zimbabwe has the world's highest inflation rate, an 80 percent employment rate and, since 1988, the life expectancy has dropped from age 62 to 38. In 2005, Mugabe launched Operation Murambatsvina ("clean the filth"), which forced the eviction of 700,000 people to "restore order and sanity."

• Omar al-Bashir (Sudan; 1989-present): His campaign of religious and ethnic persecution has ended the lives of 180,000 Darfur civilians and has driven over two million people from their homes.

Not meant to put a price on life, just to educate the morons that call Bush a Nazi and compare him to Hitler. This question was posed to show what true evil is.

Answer 1

OF COURSE NOT BUT YOU WILL FIND SOME IDIOT TO SAY YES.

Answer 2

i'm no longer a huge George Bush fan via any ability yet he's not even on the threshold of being the worst president that we've ever had. That doubtful identify would ought to bypass to Jimmy Carter. we are nevertheless paying the cost for his fool rules even right this moment with the difficulty interior the middle east. besides as many different issues like freely giving the Panama Canal to apease Manuel Noriega so he does not declair conflict on the US. What a shaggy dog tale! Then we had to bypass down there and combat a conflict with Panama besides. (in case you are able to as nicely call that a conflict) Now the chinese language have bought it from Panama and are working it, isn't that superb? even though it began with him. And everyone sufficiently old to have lived via his hideous administration is possibly to appreciate that. His administration grow to be so undesirable and such a humiliation to the Democrats that his own party sabotaged his re-election purely to get him out of workplace. it relatively is the reason Ronald Reagan gained with extremely some Democratic votes. i'm no longer partisan so that's not significant to me no count number if it relatively is a Republican or a Democrat in workplace as long as they're a robust guy or woman with stable rules. George Bush's coverage on unlawful immigration is fairly putting me off on him nonetheless.

Answer 3

I'm sure you know the saying "the lesser of two evils is still evil".

Sure, all you say is true. But when the best argument you have in favor of a leader is this:

"Well...hes better than Hitler!"

I think it might be time to change leaders.

30,000 dead Iraqis and over 3000 dead Americans isnt bad enough for you? Those are all people! People with lives, families, loves, hates, etc. Everything that makes you a human being once made them human beings.

Without offending you, I think this is an awfully cold-hearted question to ask. Murder is murder. No matter what the number of people killed is. Killing two people isnt OK because someone else killed five. Catch my drift?

Answer 4

As liberal as I am, Bush isn't quite the evil you lined up in your question. Those guys weren't puppets of big business serving nameless faceless corporate interests, they were dictators, Bush is a figurehead, not a mass murdering fiend. Unless your Arab, then he is a mass murdering fiend. I almost forgot, you neo-cons don't consider Arabs "real" people.

Your argument reads like a pitiful attempt to justify Bush being evil, by comparing him to more evil. It fails, Bush may not be on par with the worst of humanity, but by failing to even address humanities biggest threat, he may have doomed us all.

Global warming and the failure of W to even consider the Kyoto accords, at least assured our grandchildren an earlier than normal death if not outright extinction of the human race. George most likely couldn't do anymore about it than the rest of us, but we aren't the President of the U.S. either.

The leader of the free world, yeah right. Tell me another.

Answer 5

I dont think his actions have amounted to that group...just yet.
He still has 2 years to go.

But the fundamental attributes he does sahre with some of those people. Thirst for power, reckless use of human life, false propoganda tactics to manipulate his followers.
I hold him responsible for 25000 american casualties and however many IRAQis who have fallen victim to this war of false pretenses.

I can only hope that his legacy after this catastrophe hes led the american people into will be compared to those groups of people in the future.

Its a shame when even republicans will conceed that we were led into war falsely -- then sharply change subjects to focusing on the now!

Answer 6

Why not include Attila the Hun and Ghengis Khan on your list? It's easy to find tyrants throughout history.

Most of Bush's sharpest critics consider him the worst American President ever, but that does not mean he is the worst person ever.

Answer 7

Depends on what he's actually convicted of before I make any assessment of his place on your list. I'm thinking that the death toll in Iraq will equal the totals of some of those madmen when it's properly figured.

He's not labeled the worst president ever for his stateside work, or is he?

Answer 8

To compare President Bush to these people is ridiculous. Since when has The US government oppressed anyone, or conducted genocide?

I see what you mean. I thought you were comparing Bush to these people. Sorry!

Answer 9

Of course not. Bush is not a murderous dictator. He's not evil. He's just a moron who's not fit to run a country.

Answer 10

Bush invaded a sovereign country on a deliberate lie and caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He legalized torture. He holds people in prison indefinitely without counsel, a trial or even telling them what the charges are against them. He spies on his on his own people for no justifiable reason.

He did all this WITH the world watching him. Imagine what he would be capable of without the presence of mass media.....

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Answer 11

Compared to them, he's like the pope. But by himself, he's not a very good leader, better than that group, but not a good leader.