Reply #24: I beg to differ ... [View All]

[4morewars]

from your post:
"...first off, Bush is not a fascist"

Mussolini's definition:
Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. It thus repudiates the doctrine of Pacifism -- born of a renunciation of the struggle and an act of cowardice in the face of sacrifice. War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have courage to meet it. All other trials are substitutes, which never really put men into the position where they have to make the great decision -- the alternative of life or death....

more here:
www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/mussolini-fascism.html