Is the conduct of the United States better than Adolf Hitler?

Question

As a consequence on this war "of" terror, we've killed over 700,000 innocent civilians and seriously injured well over a million Iraqis (UN numbers). We cannot forget the illegal detainment and torture being conducted today in prisons throughout the world.

In the opinion of many, our conduct is worse than that of Adolf Hitler. It's hard to argue when you look at the statistics. It's also hard to believe that someone will not be held accountable for these atrocities at some point.

Answer 1

Bush didn't order to kill innocent people. Iraqis are killing each other on secretarian line. I don't recall any leaders giving order to kill innocent people.

So, I guess you'll be going to jail soon since you probably bought products made in China in which some factories exploit child labor, some abuse workers, don't even pay them..etc.

So are you committing crimes against humanity when you buy iPods, computers, shoes...etc? Since people suffer to bring you nice cheap stuff. From China.

That's just same logic for equating the US to Hitler.

In my opinion this is just typical anti-war rhetoric. Much like pro-war rhetorics. This type of rhetoric is no better than Bush saying 'we're taking fight to the enemies.'

Answer 2

If you looks in the records you will see that 'Intell' has been looking for OBL since early 90's. His family happens to be good friends of MrGWB.Sr and many were flown out rightafter 9/11 in no-fly period.
So after 17 yrs or so no one can find him?
If this was a real war on terrorism we should have went in there FULL FORCE and gotten anyone who has these radical viewpoints wanting to conquer the world.
The way it is, the troops can't even get $4bil for updated protective gear out of $96 Bil+ but get cut down to $2 Bil.
One injured vet wearing a helmet after part of his skull had to be removed got a review of 10% injured. Support the Troops, they say, not do.

Answer 3

In a way most every politician is involved with the hitler logic. No, not the murderous type. Their logic is in the economy, big business, political correctness, and a bunch of other nonsense. Every time someone mentions Hitler's name we think of the Holocaust, but that's not the only thing Hitler brought to life. The whole "one world" government is one of them. Which countries like ours and Europe is working on as we speak. That and to have us all acting like robots, thinking the same way, acting the same way, all of us living in fear. These are all like the whole Hitler way of thinking and ruling. Our government lives by one of his most famous statements. "The bigger the lie, the more believalble it is." I'm talking about 9/11 and this whole Iraq mess we're in now. And no, they will never be held accountable because it's not just republicans, it's democrats as well.

Answer 4

You neither know your history of the United States nor the history of Adolf Hitler (Stalin murdered 25 million compared to Hitler's 9 million, of which 6 million were Jews).

The vast majority of innocent Moslem civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq have been killed by Moslem insurgents in cowardly acts of terrorism.

There is nothing illegal about the U.S. detaining proven or suspected terrorists.

The conduct of the United States in Afghanistan/Iraq cannot even be compared to the conduct of Nazi Germany from 1939 to 1945; the U.S. has not set up extermination camps in any Moslem country, the United States Army does not practice a reprisal system as did the Nazis (10 civilians hanged from trees for every 1 soldier killed), the U.S. is not using biological, chemical, or nuclear weapons on anybody.

This list just goes on and on, and you have no basis of comparison.

Answer 5

That alleged 700,000 stat is crap. The reality is about one-tenth that.

The allegedly illegal detainment is not in violation of any int'l law that I know of, because the Geneva Convention doesn't state rules for non-uniformed combatants.

The alleged torture is hard to believe, considering the POWs get warm beds, three Islam-friendly meals a day, a copy of the Koran, and time to pray five times a day. Do you remember the allegations of Marines at Gitmo flushing the Koran down the toilet? Turned out that was false. Why should we believe anything the terrorists claim?

Hitler, OTOH, institutionalized the mass extermination of entire ethnic groups, and build camps whose sole duty was to slaughter people. If you can't tell the difference between one and the other, then you need a one way trip to Auschwitz.

Answer 6

Even though I personally think the US foreign policy is absolutely outrageous... if nothing else, the US hasn't set up camps to exterminate Muslims, which Hitler did to Jews... ...

so I don't think you can not compare the US foreign policy to Nazi Germany's foreign policy...

however, to say that invading Iraq was a 'self-defense' (as someone argued here) is an absolutely ridiculous argument...

Answer 7

I contend that you are a liar. We have not killed over "700,000 innocent civilians." There is no comparison between the US and Nazi Germany.

If you are not a liar, then post a link to solid evidence. Note the word "solid."

Answer 8

I hope they file charges on Bush for war crimes in a court and also Cheney, Rumsfield, and Rice. They all have that repulsive saying,"I serve at the pleasure of the President", that sounds like a 2 bit who**. To me that such a vulgar sounding statement. What do you think the other countries think when they hear them make that nasty sounding statement.

Answer 9

Last time I checked, Hitler attacked Poland, France, Czechoslovakia, England and Russia with the intent of making them part of the German Empire (or Third Reich). None of those countries attacked Germany first, nor did they harbor any insurgents or terrorists that attacked German citizens either in Germany or abroad before being attacked by Germany.

Answer 10

The conduct is the same: commiting holocaust on a people for their religion.