"Why of course the people don't want war ... But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship ...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
- Nazi Asshole Hermann Goering, at the Nuremberg Trials
Adolf Hitler George Bush
| “It is not truth that matters, but victory.” | We must speak the truth about terror. Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th; malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists. |
| “How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.” | "We can fool some of the people some of the time....And those are the ones we need to concentrate on." |
| “The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.” | "Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen… Our war on terror will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated." |
| “The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.” | In his 2002 State of the Union address, Bush said variations of the word “terror” 36 times in a 3700 word speech. |
| “The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.” | "Your enemy is not surrounding your country. Your enemy is ruling your country." (Ironic Quote of the Century, 2003 State of the Union address) |
| “The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.” | "If you harbor terrorists, you are terrorists. If you train or arm a terrorist, you are a terrorist. If you feed a terrorist or fund a terrorist, you're a terrorist, and you will be held accountable by the United States and our friends." |
| “The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.” | "Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. |
| “The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.” | "Who cares what you think?" |
GWB’s grandfather Prescott Bush handed over multiple Nazi front organizations under the Trading with the Enemy Act in 1942.
If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." - Texas Governor George W. Bush
“The most important thing is for us to find Osama Bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him.” - George Bush, September 13th, 2001
Exactly six months later…
“I don’t know where he is. I have no idea and I really don’t care. It’s not that important. It’s not our priority.” - George Bush, March 13th, 2002
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
- Nazi asshole, Joseph Goebbels.
Here is a speech from GWB emphasizing the Goebbels strategy
http://www.politics.ie/viewtopic.php?t=24815
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DOES THIS NOT SEEM AT ALL FAMILIAR? The Twin Towers certainly did happen, and there's no denying that. Yet there is also a lot of conflicting evidence and testimony about the attack which the government has repeatedly ignored. Some straight answers would be nice. The Bush family has been heavily involved in Big Oil and it is well known that Prescott Bush lost numerous properties which profited from Germany's involvement in WW2.
Bush will go down in history as the worst president of the United States. Give it a few years.
It galls me that you put a handful of religious fundamentalist extremists -- as dangerous as they are -- on the same level as an entire nation, its wealth, its labor, its industry, and its armies, who tried to conquer half the world and exterminate an entire race -- and came close to succeeding.
At the same time, you laugh at the opinion of respected world leaders who say, more and more frequently, that it is impossible to fight a so-called "war on terror" without addressing the social, political, and economic wrongs that motivate desperately poor people to hate and to kill.
Finally, I wish all you right-wingers would stop -- FINALLY -- invoking 9/11 and the World Trade Center like you own it. You don't own it. You weren't there. I've worked in the WTC. I had two friends who died in the WTC. I had a colleague (NYPD Captain who taught in a criminal justice program) who was severely injured there. I had students who lost parents, spouses, and friends there.
You were never there. You saw it on TV. So leave it alone, yes?
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