Time Isn't Holding Us

Before we begin, I'd just like to point out that the Republicans want you to know that the American People don't care about this story. They don't care because they love and trust their President, President George W. Bush. Republicans would like to repeat that the American People don't care at every opportunity, so don't be surprised if it crops back up.

Paul Greenberg has discovered another similarity between Saddam Hussein and Adolf Hitler. In 1939, Albert Einstein convinced President Franklin D. Roosevelt to build the nuclear Bomb, based on fears that Germany might get there first. After the war, it happened that Hitler was not even close.

Let's count all the differences between World War II and the present.

1). President Roosevelt, sensitive to the Isolationist Republicans, did not actually begin his project until 1941, and the project was worked on during the war between the United States and Germany.

2). Roosevelt did not in fact order American troops in to invade and occupy Germany; he started a weapon development program. In fact he didn't declare war on Germany until after Pearl Harbor.

3). Roosevelt did not sell World War II to the American people on the basis of imminent Atomic Bomb attacks.

4). The few International Organizations had completely failed to contain Hitler; contrariwise, it's becoming more and more evident that since his expulsion from Kuwait, Saddam has been contained.

5). While the Germans were not, in fact, close to developing the atom bomb, there existed abundant evidence that they were looking for it.

So you see, perhaps the two situations aren't exactly the same. But as Mr. Greenberg would be the first to point out, the American people don't care about possible deception by the President. They believe and trust in their President.