Nur Hitler, read the posters – Only Hitler. Only Hitler could save Germany and supporting anyone else meant hope for the Communists, aid and comfort for the enemy.
Dick Cheney, like Stalin or Hitler In their day, could not run a peaceful country and needs constant war and fear to keep from being dragged from office and hanged upside down and naked from a window like Benito Mussolini. So sinister old Dick snarls that voting for Democrats puts us all in danger and the reptile Orrin Hatch tells us that a Democratic win would help the terrorists. It’s not just pathetic, it’s not just a grotesque lie and evasion of responsibility; it’s another station on the Via Dolorosa or the road to Saigon.
All of us old enough to remember the rhetoric of the Viet Nam war, remember these precise statements differing only in the substitution of names for the enemy. Electing anti war candidates, we were assured, would delight the Cong and Ho Chi Min wanted you to vote for Gene McCarthy. Nixon would win the war with honor if we let him stay the course. Only Nixon.
We are on the same road, ignoring the same potholes, going the same way, saying the same things, telling the same lies, selling the same fabrications, burning the same straw men and yet somehow not expecting to get to the same place we got then: utter and humiliating defeat and dishonor. Word for word, step for step, lie for lie, it’s the same old road. Only Bush, only the Republicans, only steadfastness in failure will produce victory.
I’d like to think that the day will come when Cheney and Rumsfeld and Bush will be remembered with loathing, but I doubt it, not as long as Americans are Americans; reborn into ignorance and smug self satisfaction every day. Not as long as we have enough iPods and XBoxes, ball games, bumper stickers, Fox News and Bible classes .
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That last paragraph sums up the American psyche perfectly
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
--Geroge Orwell
"It's not a matter of if the war is not real, or if it is. Victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. A hierarchal society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past, and no different past can ever have existed. In principle, the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects, and its object is not victory the over eurasia or east asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact."
--George Orwell
I like the quote from 1984 - and Orwell in particular. In fact there is nothing that sums up the post WW II world better.
If he's not written out of history he may someday be seen as the great prophet he was.
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