And while on the subject of Adolf Hitler ...

For the record -- and for the sake of good taste, kindness and my own deepest Christian beliefs -- I am sick and tired of hearing or reading some piece of garbage that tries to connect or even hint at connecting any of our current politicians with Adolf Hitler. I've heard or read items that compare both George Bush and Hillary Clinton, both Ned Lamont and Joe Lieberman, etc. ad nausium ... with the likes of Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin or even the Biblical Satan. As much as I disagree with almost any of the neocons currently giving directions to George Bush, I would never ever compare any of them with any of the animals who ran the Nazi Party in Germany in the 1930s and 40s.

The Nazis were persons who deliberately killed millions of human beings; persons who believed in ethnic cleansing and even believed in the superiority of certain persons based on their racial ancestry. People like that do exist in this world.

But our leaders were and are elected and/or appointed officials who, by nature, education and goodness (for the most part) do their best to obey the laws of the land and to adhere to the tenets of the Constitution. I might disagree with whether they succeed in that endeavor, but I don't doubt their own beliefs that they are doing so.

Just so you know ...