🚀 go-pugleaf

Monte wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 07 Sep 2002 23:34:24 GMT, tetraethyllead@yahoo.com (Brent P)
> wrote:
> 
> >In article <3d7a85e4.10241997@news.ev1.net>, Monte wrote:
> >> Yessireebob!  Ol' GeeDub has hauled out the PROOF positive, all that
> >> is necessary to justify bombing the crap out of some nation, risking
> >> the lives of thousands of fine young american military personnel and
> >> devastate our nations economy.  He flung down a couple of satellite
> >> photos that show unexplained bulding construction in Iraq.  By gawd,
> >> he's convinced me.  In fact I say lets bomb every damn nation on this
> >> planet that doesn't get a building permit from Donny Rumsfeld.
> >
> >So where were you when Bill Clinton got permission to use force
> >to get Iraq inline weapons wise without any special proof back in 1998?
> 
> Well, if memory serves, what the U.S. attacked were military
> installations that were involved with doing or supporting Iraqi
> attacks on our 'no-fly zone' patrol flights.  Uh, can you say direct
> attack instead of  Rumsfeldian " I believe the they are a threat".
> "Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth 


"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a
farm 
want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to
come 
back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want
war: 
neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That
is 
understood. 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."

- Hermann Goering, Luftwaffe Commander, Nuremberg Trials 1946
- from "Nuremberg Diary" by G M Gilbert (Signet, New York, 1947)