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Ed Tant nails the Bush goose step march

Tant: Bush administration marching America directly into fascism | | Story updated at 10:12 PM on Friday, June 9, 2006 Ed Tant more Tant columns We aren't always the good guys and America doesn't always fight for freedom. Sometimes the shadow of the swastika looms over the "land of the free." From Abu Ghraib to Haditha, the Bush administration's ill-conceived and imperialistic invasion of Iraq has proved that the philosopher Voltaire was right when he said, "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Here at home, the folly of the Iraq war likewise proves that historian Howard Zinn was quite correct when he said, "One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression." From the sadly misnamed "free speech zones" to corral protesters against Bush's policies to the widespread surveillance of phone calls made by Americans, it would seem that despite the prattling of the president it