Um, we already did just what this guy suggests when we participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. I'm sure there were pictures of Hitler all over the place.

It's called censorship.

Difference is Hitler involved the whole world in the war, Mao kept it "in house".Of course, Iam not implying that was right.

I think the average Chinese person is getting past Mao, in a quiet peaceful way. I also wonder why we judge the olympics, and the chinese people, by what was or was not protested. Protest wasn't even a demonstration sport, but I'm wondering if it should be.

We can't protest against him.

The count of people murdered by George W. Bush probably has not yet reached a million. However, in my opinion George W. Bush is every bit as evil as those other guys you mentioned.

Olympics are about dollars. That's why.

Did nobody else read the news stories about the protest permits in Beijing? 77 protest applications were filed, but not a single one was approved. In fact, many of the people filing protest applications were arrested. The Chinese officials were not going to allow anyone with dissenting opinions to crash their party.

Ultra -- It's a curious morality that assigns to George W. Bush the responsibility for the deaths of people who were murdered by the enemies of the United States -- who of course have done the vast majority of the killing in the Iraq campaign.

Sure, you could argue that but for the Iraq campaign, Michael Moore's patriotic "Minutemen" insurgents wouldn't have been setting off bombs in mosques, markets, kidnapping and murdering, etc. On the other hand, there's a good case to be made that had not the Allies declared war on Germany when it invaded Poland in 1939, the Holocaust wouldn't have happened; Germany might have gone on gradually driving out its Jews through petty persecution, and never lurched into a Final Solution out of malice and frustration when, in 1942, it became clear that Germany wasn't going to win.

The responsibility for evil is borne by those who will it and do it. Your morality is seriously twisted.

By the way, when the 1936 Olympics were awarded to Berlin, the Nazis hadn't come to power yet. The Beijing Olympics are the first instance of an Olympiad being awarded to a totalitarian state.

Politics have nothing to do with the olympics. It is a time to set aside our differences.

"The Beijing Olympics are the first instance of an Olympiad being awarded to a totalitarian state."

Thomas the Olympics have held held in Moscow and Salt Lake City.

Didn't we go to China to participate in a sporting event? I didn't know it was supposed to be used as a political protest op.

The olympics are not supposed to be a political event.

Why Should Mao be protested

The operative word in this post is "supposed."

You are foolish. Nazis came to power in 1933 and took full dictatorial control in 1934.