By Andrew L. Jaffee

Our children are subject to brainwashing — only if it is of the right, er, ah, Left kind. School teachers are on the march, trying to convince our sons and daughters that Bush is Hitler. But I doubt you’ll hear similar leftist brainwashing concerning the real evils in our world now, like those of Iranian President Ahmadinejad, or crimes committed in the name of “socialism.” From FOXNews.com:

In New Jersey, a high school teacher named Joseph Kyle decided it was time to hold a war crimes trial with President Bush as defendant. The principal approved the project.

A student played President Bush. He had a defense team. There were prosecutors. Five teachers sat as the “International Tribunal.”

The teachers union not only approved it but also thought the teacher was completely justified. …

Same thing with this geography teacher in Colorado. A student taped him giving his lecture, which posited the notion that Bush’s State of the Union address employed the rhetorical tactics of Hitler.

More from the The Sunday Times on the Colorado incident:

“Sounds a lot like the things that Adolf Hitler used to say,” Jay Bennish told his class. “We’re the only ones who are right, everyone else is backward and our job is to conquer the world.”

Mr Bennish called the US “probably the single most violent nation on Earth”, saying that it had committed more than 7,000 “terrorist sabotage acts” against Cuba.

But why bother teaching students about communism’s murder of a 100 million people, or Castro’s execution and jailing of dissidents, or Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s urging that Israel be “wiped off the map,” denial that the Holocaust ever occurred, calling for Israel’s Jews to be moved to Europe (ethnically cleansed), and hosting a conference to “prove” that Hitler’s extermination of Jews (and gypsies and gays) was a “myth?”

Perhaps the Left is so eager to demonize Bush so as to deflect criticism from its own historical criminal history. Sorry for the psycho-babble, but my diagnosis is that leftists may be afflicted with what Freud called “projection.”