- Re. The Ambassador Wilson Affair: The End of Karl Rove
- And George Bush? By Al Martin
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- Jeff,
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- once again I must thank you for providing all of us
with such great information. This article shows just how important your
service is to the web community. The one thing I find very astounding,
however, is the ease with which this current US administration is capable
to suppress information in the main stream media and the major TV networks.
It should scare us even more considering to what lengths the Bush Cabal
is obviously willing to go, in order to get rid of critical voices.
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- Considering what Karl Rove did, it surely should be called
treason! For, isn't it treason when you knowingly disclose your intelligence
assets, who as a result are killed? The other thing that amazes me is the
American public's reaction to these issues. Sure, they do not know about
them, because their media is silent and not willing to go after a story
that might damage the Bush administration. But as pointed out at the end
of this article, <<AL MARTIN is America's foremost expert on corporate
and government fraud. A relentless whistleblower, he has written a book
called, "The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran Contra Insider,"
which chronicles his adventures with the Bush Cabal ", there are other
sources open to them.
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- Does a majority of US citizens really read these books
or do they rely solely on TV news coverage by FOX, CNN, etc.? I know that
here in Europe, these kind of books receive a high attention and sell well.
Why is this so? I can't offer an official answer, but I can guess: Europeans
probably have a much greater desire and need for staying informed and do
not limit their information to only a few sources. In school, even at a
very early age, they are taught to stay attentive and question statements
and check up facts, and in general, nobody has this blind belief in his
government as is the case in the USA. Simply because Europe and its countries
have had too many centuries of governments lying to their public, too many
dictators and somewhere in the course of history, their citizens have decided
that they do not want to be caught unawares anymore. Their media is indeed
a watchdog for any government foul play and will go after anything that
smells of cover up.
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- In a recently aired report on German television named
"The Omnipotence of the USA", Condoleeza Rice mentioned in an
interview that the idea of democracy must be planted in all countries of
the world and especially Germany had to thank the USA for receiving democracy
after W.W.II... she even went as far as to imply that the USA have more
or less invented democracy. Well, Condi should read up a bit about history,
because democracy existed in Germany and elsewhere in Europe long before
the USA liberated them from Hitler. In Germany, democracy failed in the
end due to the specific problems of the Weimar Republic, but most of all,
because the powerful business industry and the conservatives joined forces
with Hitler and enabled him to rise to power in a very similar way George
W. Bush gained power.
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- I will refrain to draw any comparisons between HItler
and Bush, as it is really redundant - history needs to be seen in context
of its own time. But let's not forget that the Germans gave up their freedom
and their democracy for fear of terrorism (after the "Reichtagsbrand",
symbolically the same as the attack of the Twin Towers WTC), that Hitler
pre-emptively attacked other countries and a majority of the German public
believed his lies that these countries posed a threat to Germany, that
Hitler controlled the masses via a clever propaganda (had Goebbels had
the modern technologies of today in the media world, I guess the Germans
would have been "convinced" much faster) and that anyone speaking
out against these things was called un-patriotic and sooner or later ended
up in concentration camps denounced by patriotic neighbours abiding by
the German "Homeland Security Act". (The jews were no the only
ones populating the camps, although they were the majority).
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- German history and other painful experience lets us Europeans
rather believe that our politicians are corrupt and not trustworthy and
we very consciously grant them the right to represent us for a limited
time only. Our politicians know this and yet some still try to lie to
us, deceive us and exploit us. Some even succeed for a while, but they
all pay the price sooner or later. In Italy it will be Berlusconi (who
seems to be copying Mr. Bush in many ways) , in the UK it will most certainly
be Tony Blair and some of his gang, in Spain it will be Aznar... they all
will learn that Europe's voters are not half as gullible as the USA's.
We still have a functioning independent press/media, moreover, we have
paper ballots, which are hand counted on election day, so there will be
no misunderstandings, no half punched holes and especially no electronic
voting machines . Indeed, the "old Europe", as Mr. Rumsfeld called
it, still uses its old fashioned but very effective means of stopping any
politician, if he oversteps his limited powers granted to him by the people.
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- For a while, many in Europe believed the US to be the
land, where dreams came true, where more liberty and personal freedom existed.
Now, if you ask most of us "old Europeans", we wouldn't even
enjoy travelling there. Europe sadly acknowledges that the land of the
free has become the land of the deceived and a country where personal rights
have been sacrificed on the altar of fear.
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- I personally have spent my happiest and most carefree
years in the United States as a teenager, later coming back many times,
visiting old friends, travelling the different states, and always have
I felt a deep love for this country, appreciating its people for their
hospitality and their friendliness. But in the last few years, it became
more and more painful for me to watch the growing estrangement, to listen
to the arguments of friends, who - like children refusing to accept an
ugly truth - attacked me for not understanding and not agreeing to their
country's politics. It is very painful to see an old friendship die a slow
and subtle death.
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- Ani Corné
- Writer - Italy
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