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Monte wrote:
> 
> President Che...Dubya, is setting up the U.N. and the American public.
> What's worse the bastard will pull it off.  This week Dubya is going
> to address the U.N., specidically to argue for the support of the
> Security Council in attacking Iraq.  Now he already called China,
> France and Russia and got shut down.  Cheney/Rummy knows full well
> they cannot get the Security Counsel majority they need.  In fact they
> do not want it.
> 
> Why?  Because then they can point at the hated U.N. and tell the
> American people " See, the terrorists are now in charge of the UN and
> so we must go it alone.  They are all in Saddams pocket,"  The people
> will believe it, and it has the added benefit of giving an excuse to
> once again avoid the paying of acknowledged debt that we owe the UN.
> No, this isn't something they are trying to tack onto us and make us
> pick up the bill for some communistic plot to vaccinate children, it's
> monies we promised to pay as our share of other operations such as
> Kosovo etc.
> 
> Anyway, the cheap ploy can be read here.
> http://www.msnbc.com/news/804800.asp


"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)