Counter-Currents
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The United States believes that it has the right to interfere in the affairs of any country for any reason. Comparisons to Nazi Germany aren’t apt, because the Nazis would’ve never had the gall to claim that nuclear proliferation on the Korean or Indian peninsulas was any of their business.
All this requires a well-oiled propaganda machine to convince the boobs that they’re out fighting for freedom. And, of course, the standard way of saying that the dictator you want to demonize is evil is to say that he is “like Hitler.” I searched for the following phrases in Google with quotation marks to see which government heads are the leading Hitlers.
| Google Phrase | Hits |
| Saddam was/is like Hitler + Hussein was/is like Hitler | 448,900 |
| Ahmadinejad is like Hitler | 118,000 |
| Putin is like Hitler | 40,200 |
| Sharon was/is like Hitler | 25,400 |
| Mugabe is like Hitler | 24,600 |
| Milosevic was/is like Hitler | 3,170 |
| Stalin was like Hitler | 10 |
| Castro is like Hitler | 7 |
| Kim is like Hitler + Jong-Il is like Hitler |
5 |
| Pinochet was like Hitler | 2 |
| Khamenei is like Hitler | 2 |
| Olmert was/is like Hitler | 2 |
| Netanyahu was/is like Hitler | 1 |
That’s quite impressive, but as far as Hitlerness is concerned, nobody can compare to the last two US presidents.
| Google Phrase | Hits |
| Bush was/is like Hitler | 1,936,000 |
| Obama is like Hitler | 1,280,000 |
| Carter was/is like Hitler | 63,000 |
| FDR was/is like Hitler + Roosevelt was/is like Hitler | 12 |
| Clinton was/is like Hitler | 9 |
| Reagan was/is like Hitler | 9 |
| Lincoln was like Hilter | 7 |
Poor Carter became a Hitler for criticizing Israel in that book of his. It looks like being president before the internet era took off really hurt Clinton’s and Reagan’s Hitler rankings. Obama has only been in office for 8 months. In another year he will become the all-time leading Hitler.
Interestingly, even entire countries can be “like Hitler.”
| Google Phrase | Hits |
| Israel is like Hitler | 427,000 |
| US is like Hitler + America is like Hitler | 12 |
| Iran is like Hitler | 9 |
| Iraq is like Hitler | 6 |
| China is like Hitler | 2 |
| Korea is like Hitler | 2 |
Poor Israel is really not well-liked. They’re Hitler, and the people who oppose them are Hitlers too.
From HBD Books, September 5, 2009