I just finished reading each comment and noticed how bias affects one's reading of the quote. My own will show as well I'm sure but this is my assessment: I don't think one can find a true analog between Hitler's Nazi regime and the Bush administration. It's a ridiculous comparison by most measures. Nevertheless, as Goering points out, the method for obtaining support for a war is the same whether that government is democratic or autocratic. This is particularly true of an unpopular war or a war that the people themselves are not calling for. The American people were not gung ho for war against Iraq--even at the war's onset the country was fairly evenly divided. Their support had to be won and the tactics that the administration used were as Goering described. It doesn't seem to me that the Bush administration was ever effective in gaining a clear majority for their Middle East agenda, and so they were less effective than the Nazis--but then they did not have the same means of propaganda available to them that the Nazis had, which isn't to say they wouldn't have liked those powers.