Austria - Joerg Haider compares George Bush to Saddam and Hitler

Joerg Haider is a Nazi scumbag.

Nice pals you're making, Mikey.

Mr. Haider repeated his aversion for the republican president, which it reproaches for having made the war in Iraq, by quoting a man of the left, Michael Moore, a severe American line criticism: "I read two books of Michael Moore, I agree with him, it is not a crime!"

Who care what a broken-English a-hole thinks.

Joerg Haider paid several visits in Iraq under Saddam Hussein

He's a bootlicker.

I bet he licked more than boots!

I remember Buchanan's remarks about the Austrian leader:

"Haider is no Hitler."

Funny how these two people, Haider and Buchanan, cannot stop talking about Adolph Hitler.

Joerg Haider: Accused of admiring the Nazis

By Nigel Glass in Austria

A couple of years ago, after a German language class, I spoke to the young teacher about Austria's Nazi past. It's something many young Austrians are more than willing to talk about.

But this time was different. The girl began crying. She explained her grandfather had recently died and told me how much she had loved him. But she knew he had served in the war, and because he never spoke of it, she wondered if he had been responsible for any of those terrible things.

I didn't know what to say.

Joerg Haider would have known what to say, and he regularly gets himself branded as a Nazi-sympathiser for saying it.

Nazi-sympathiser

He consistently pays tribute to the Austrian veterans of the Wehrmacht, including the Waffen SS. He says they became reformed after the war and helped to build Austria into the seventh richest nation in the world.

He's probably right about the majority, but Haider knows his accolade is also falling on some who committed dark crimes.

Haider is associated with Hitler in news reports
But for every veteran, there is a family of voters to whom they are simply beloved relatives. His is the one voice that untangles the awkward loving bonds of family that reach into the hatred of Austria's dark Nazi past.

Haider is undoubtedly an opportunist. He's been accused of raising baseless fears and setting himself up as the man to solve them.

An opportunist

In this election he ran a campaign of stopping immigration in a country that has virtually no immigration. He says he stands for a crackdown on crime in a country that has just about the lowest crime rate in the world.

It's against this background that a few of his comments have been taken as proof that he's an admirer of the Nazis. Two have been the most damaging.

He described the National Socialists' employment policies as sound and he used the word penal camp to describe a concentration camp.

Both quotes are used in nearly every newspaper story that associates Haider with Hitler.

When I asked him why he described penal camps as concentration camps, he refused to answer and took me to task for not having read the speech first.

The quote is factual, but the context in which he used it defies the charges that he was trying to play down the Holocaust - because he used the words to draw attention to the Holocaust.

Misunderstood

In the Austrian National Council he complained that the Romany people in Austria were being marginalised, and asked people to remember that they were almost exterminated in the penal camps of National Socialism.

Many ask why, if Haider complains of being misunderstood, he doesn't unequivocally condemn Hitler and National Socialism. But he has described the Third Reich as a heinous criminal regime.

More pointedly, he has said that Austria was as responsible as Germany for the seven terrible years of the war.

From a conversation I had with a foreign editor from a leading European paper, these comments are wasted.

Long running stories

Immediately after an interview with Haider he told me he thought he was a moderate. But he didn't expect his paper would be reporting this because the combination of Austria's Nazi past and Haider was too good a running story to spoil.

Haider says his reputation has been unjustly tainted, but it at least gives him a sense of freedom. But I've seen that many Austrians must be suffering under the influence of the long running stories of Nazi Austria.

A young journalist friend told me of an exchange visit to a Brisbane high school, when she was 19. In a discussion about anti-Semitism, she started to talk about its rise in 13th century Europe, but the teacher interrupted her, saying: 'Anyone who comes from Austria is blind to the subject.'

And I was on one of Vienna's pristine buses, when one of the passengers asked a British football fan to take his feet off the seat.

"You're all Nazis. We beat you in the war," he screamed at them.

In a caf_n Durnstein I heard one American tourist whisper to another: "There are a lot of Nazis here you know."

And a visiting producer, making a documentary about an Austrian alleged war criminal observed: "They all look like Nazis."

The journalist turned propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels, persuaded Hitler that the best stories were the ones that reinforced people's prejudices. This is a story that will run and run.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/468127.stm

Haider compares W with Hitler...????...LMAO...!!!

He's an Austrian. He meant it as a compliment.

Perhaps Arnie ought to invite this Austrian to California and straighten him out.

"...remarks, which "were well formulated"

This is what happens with a steady diet of schnitzel.

Doesn't his name anglicize to 'George Hater'? No wonder he doesn't like GWB.

The ones that freely throw the Nazi slur around are usually the ones that will eventually end up on trial for crimes against humanity.

"Hitler is him also arrived at the capacity democratically"

What impeccable grammar.

That's babelfish. In any case, I'm wondering why Haider is using a Nazi comparison to denigrate W since Haider has demonstrated that he loves the Nazi.

Haider maintains its comparison between George W Bush and Saddam Hussein

This from a country that elected a former NAZI Wheremacht or was it a Waffen SS Lieutenant to be their head of state.

Yes, he can really tell the difference!

Most probably a frog like bribe taker.

"Who care what a broken-English a-hole thinks."

A broken-English a-hole and Michael Moore.