Iraq war Like WW2?
According to CNN Bush Incorporated plans to launch a new campaign to portray the assault, battery and occupation of Iraq as being like WW2. While I think they are daft, using Madison Avenue sales techniques to "sell refrigerators to eskimos", reversing the truth Orwellian style, I have taken the bait and cannot resist regurgitating it. This is a subject I can't get over. The whole scenario from the dramatic hits on the World Trade Center and Pentagon to the "pre-emptive" attack on countries who had nothing to do with it resemble WW2 very closely. It is almost verbatim out of Hitler's play book. A play book backed to the hilt by the owners of the Republican Party from 1921 up through the very end of WW2. From the burning of the German parliament building, the Reichstag, the subsequent implementation of the "enabling" act, similar to the "Patriot" act, round ups and extrajudicial imprisonment of people based on stereotypes or politics, the uber nationalism to the attacks on Poland, who the corporate media in Germany was faithfully reporting was lobbing artillery into the Fatherland, Germany, and preparing a greater attack, ridiculous assertions spoon fed to the media by the Nazi leadership.
The Reichstag burns. Torched by the Nazis and blamed on "Communists"
Like the Nazis, this war has been perpetrated at the behest of corporate interests for the purpose of personal enrichment with the tool of fear and loathing, playing upon human weakness. Fear of real and imagined enemies and loathing for those one can not understand. Hatred of mentally impaired, homeless people, homosexuals, gypsies and Jews fueled the fires in the German "Homeland" and fear of humble Poland from whom Germany was receiving much of the steel for it's war machine which was being purchased in very large part by...Prescott Bush, "W"'s grandpa, in partnership with both German and American Nazi party members, and the company they managed for Hitler's backers in America and Germany. One of these businesses was taken from them a bit less than a year after Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese and The U.S. entered WW2. Here is a link to the document.
As in Germany, the real outside threat is our own leadership who's allegiance is not to the "homeland" portrayed in their glitzy advertising campaign but to international big business and themselves. To greed. Greed for wealth and personal power driven by feelings of inadequacy and facilitated by the intense rationalization that goes along with it. Rationalizing that the ends justify any brutal means and intelligent political and moral opposition be damned. Both Hitler and Bush bought the support of churches while condemning the "liberal" intelligentsia. Bush and Hitler both ignored the advice of their own experienced military leadership and both punished them for giving good advice. One difference is that Hitler was a moving orator with a personal axe to grind backed by international corporate interests while Bush is an intellectually inbred prince of international corporate fascism who speakes basic english poorly.
Venomous Anti-Semite Henry Ford receives Germany's Highest Medal, the Grand Cross of the Supreme Order of the German Eagle, from Nazi Counsuls in Dearborn, Michagan in 1938
The rest of the world, including the U.S.A., fought corporate puppet Hitler once his intentions, brutality and madness became understood and Germany itself was the final victim.
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Noel,
It's good that you enlighten those without any actual experience of war -- especially what it's like to be on the 'receiving end'.
Those pictures you posted bring back many memories. All of them awful.
I actually left my mother's womb to enter this world, in the aerial bombarded city of Liverpool.
Take a look at this edition [with photo]of my This Old Brit blog, a little while back.
Is there ANYONE out there reading this that can even IMAGINE surviving this? Well, I did! So did nearly all my family. Thank God. Sadly, so many more poor innocent men, women, children and babies - both newly born and still waiting to be born - did NOT survive.
http://rickwrites.blogspot.com/2005/04/yep-theres-hell-alright.html
You have been on the receiving end more than me Richard. We left less of some towns and many residential areas of North Vietnam's cities than was left of Liverpool with not that much fear for our own safety since we had them outgunned to the point where they were essentially defensless. Attacks against us were suicide and few attempted it. I came away with no sense of glory, no ability to claim valor or heroism or even the compensatory knowledge that it was for a good cause. 3,000,000 men, women and children in North Vietnam died for our sins and our greatest fear was that the American electorate would find out the extent of our illegal assault.
We carried nukes which could reach Hanoi on the tip of a Talos missile and it is likely only the voices of protest in this country that prevented us using them. Thank God for them, thank God and the protestors that I don't also have that on my conscience.
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I wish I could tell you what I know about what else we did and what else we left there... but there is getting in trouble and getting in TROUBLE with the PTBs.
My Vietnam memories still give me nightmares, and I wonder sometimes about some of those we left behind, those we promised to take care of who we just abandoned to the VietCong, the ARVNs and their buddies. I still have nightmares, waking up in a pool of drenching sweat with their faces in my mind's eye and wondering how long it took them to die... or if they just tortured them until they tired of them then executed them. Yup... we're SO good at keeping our promise... and we're SO good at protecting our friends.
DO you ever wonder how long and hard they would think about the value of our lives and how our lives meant something to others if some madman with a nuke under our butts threatened to blow it up if the President didn't... oh let say didn't publicly admit that he made up the reason that he invaded Iraq? Do you think Bush would think about US of even one second? Or do you think that he would "refuse to negotiate with terrorists" after assuring the country that he had it on good intel that there was no nuke? After all, after the nuke blew up he could always claim it was a coincidental gas line explosion... a really big gas line explosion!
People these days think that pictures like that are some kind of video game or movie and when it's over they can change the channel or hit the replay button. They think it can never happen to them here in the USA. They don't understand that it can happen here and even if it doesn't it is still happening to a person just like them.
Um... I'm rambling aren't I? Sorry guys... I'm still a bit messed up. But I'm working on it. I think I need to take my other meds... the PTSD meds and go to sleep. Nite all...
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We should never left those people behind. People who helped us, our own people, any of them. Pol Pot would never have existed as he did if we had taken the Cambodian people who allied themselves with us when we left. Who would think it could have been otherwise. while 2,000,000 people, the number Pol Pot killed may be a lot we could have absorbed them here and had a duty to. If it were the other way around, if people were bombing our towns and villages, occupying our country and then left all those who collaborated with them would be in serious trouble.
A nuke blowing up would be welcomed by Bush. Their drive to develop new versions for our own arsenal are surely intended to provoc a reaction. It's not really that hard to make one once you have acquired the fissionable material...and there is plenty of that around. Critical mass generally means compressing it as I understand it...
The worse things get the more democracy they can take away. This is what they have always done in the provinces. Marcos, Suharto and the rest all "had" to cancel elections due to "national emergencies". Martial law under general Pinnochette too. Nuclear power Pakistan, our conduit to Bin Laden and the rest of the militant fundamentalists now plaguing our country.
We should get the hell out of Iraq and take our Iraqi collaborators with us for their own safety. Then put Bush and company on trial and hope the rest of the world forgives us. Then we can start solving the real problems of feeding the people of the world, stopping global warming, creating democracy in the United States and all the rest.
It's too bad that Bush and his fellow war criminals will never have to stand trial for their crimes. A pity that, it would have gone a long way towards bringing the world together and serving as a deterrent to future satraps who would illegally wage war because they don't approve of the leader of a country.
The ironic thing is that under Hussain Iraq was an al Queda free zone! Bin Laden & Co would not DARE set foot in there with good old Sadam in charge! And even MORE ironic is that though the death squads and police hit squads dissappeared people every day the numbers were NOTHING like the daily death toll now! And under Hussain there was no way in HELL that Iraq would EVER become a theocracy! But thanks to good old Georgie-Boy's meddling it's looking more and more like that is EXACTLY what they will end up with within a year!
Boy o boy George! Anyone ever tell you that you have thereverse midas touch? Yea... that's when what ever you touch turns to shite!
"W"'s father gave arms to te Ayatollah Khomeini when he and Iran were are avowed enemy after all. Fundamentalists are the sort of people BushCo loves; they are easy.
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