- It is almost inconceivable that the American public and
the Democrats are buying into the mindset that Bush's illegal invasion
of Iraq was right and that it is the seed for the spread of democracy throughout
the region. The election in both Afghanistan and Iraq were micromanaged
by the U.S. from the start with the obvious intention of maintaining a
significant military presence in both countries.
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- This is Germany in the 1930's when Hitler's grand design
was bought into by a sleeping German public ~ using the same propaganda
techniques, moral righteousness and God condoning rhetoric being heard
today.
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- "I BELIEVE that God wants me to be president."
George W. Bush
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- "I would like to thank Providence and the Almighty
for choosing me of all people to be allowed to wage this battle for Germany,"
Adolf Hitler - Berlin March, 1936
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- "freedom and fear, justice and cruelty have always
been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them." George
W. Bush
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- "Never in these long years have we offered any other
prayer but this: Lord, grant to our people peace at home, and grant and
preserve to them peace from the foreign foe!" : Adolph Hitler - Nuremberg
Sept. 13, 1936.
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- "God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know
He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [as a nation] have come
when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and
for the people of other lands" George W. Bush
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- " If we pursue this way, if we are decent, industrious,
and honest, if we so loyally and truly fulfill our duty, then it is my
conviction that in the future as in the past the Lord God will always help
us": Adolf Hitler, at the Harvest Thanksgiving Festival on the Buckeburg
held on 3 Oct. 1937
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- One columnist got it right this week and it was Seumas
Milne who wrote a brilliant column in the British Guardian:
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- "The claim that democracy is on the march in the
Middle East is a fraud. It is not democracy, but the US military, that
is on the march What has actually taken place since 9/11 and the Iraq war
is a relentless expansion of US control of the Middle East, of which the
threats to Syria are a part. The Americans now have a military presence
in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman and Qatar -- and
in not one of those countries did an elected government invite them in.
Of course Arabs want an end to tyrannical regimes, most of which have been
supported over the years by the US, Britain and France: that is the source
of much anti-western Muslim anger. The dictators remain in place by US
license, which can be revoked at any time -- and managed elections are
being used as another mechanism for maintaining pro-western regimes rather
than spreading democracy." Now let's take this Germany analogy one
step further with the announcement yesterday in the L.A
Times that the pentagon has formally approved , in their latest strategic
plan, preemptive attacks against nations thought to pose a threat to the
United States.
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- Such a policy was categorically and without reservation
condemned as a war crime on Nov. 21, 1945 by Mr. Justice Jackson at the
Nuremberg Trials.
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- Against this gathering storm of radical right wing power
consolidation and God driven and national security rationalized war fever,
again very similar to Germany in the 1930's, I recommend Oliver Hirschbiegel's
painstaking and provocative film on the last gasp of Hitler's Third Reich
~ DOWNFALL.
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- Hirschbiegel's movingly objective film makes Hitler and
his fellow conspirators , Himmler, Goebbels, Speer and even Eva Braun frighteningly
contemporary and plausible in their delusions of power and global empire
building ~ while everything was deteriorating around them.
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- It was easy to visualize Cheney in his bunker with his
protege Bush ~ along with Rice, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, Bolton and Wolfowitz
~ as they pored over their maps of middle east oil targets and domination
~ refusing to face reality and the consequences of their actions while
the country slowly slipped into economic chaos.
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- Glenn Whipp, LA Daily News, calls the film fascinating
for it's depiction of the ordinariness of evil and writes " you have
a picture of madness that could exist anyplace where blind belief in a
leader transcends reality "
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- And therein lies my point ~ for the blind belief in Bush
by the radical far right base of the Republican party and their Global
empire building agenda is already close to transcending reality ~ and
the future of our constitution and Republic is at great risk.
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- We cannot afford to make this mistake again ~ and the
world community, which has seen this moral blindness before, will not let
us.
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- Allen L Roland
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- Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author
and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on
his weblog and website www.allenroland.com He also guest hosts a weekly
national radio show TRUTHTALK on Conscious talk radio www.conscioustalk.net
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