Columnist – John Sammon “Naturally, the common people don’t want war. 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. It works the same way in any country.”
When war criminal Hermann Goering at the Nuremberg trial in 1946 said the above, he didn’t realize he was a prophet. This statement fits George Bush like a glove.
I want the United Nations to formally charge Bush and the United States with war crimes in Iraq. Below is a first draft copy of the proposed indictment.
Indictment Iraq War
The United Nations Charges: Count One
Introduction
The Defendant
1. The United States president is sworn to uphold the Constitution and represent the American people responsibly and to seek through its own creation, the United Nations, peaceful resolutions to crisis unless all other options have been exhausted.
The Conspiracy
2. From in or about 2001, through 2003, the defendants George Bush and Richard (Dick) Cheney knowingly, willfully and unlawfully concocted a scheme to convince the American people that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction as they put it, “such as the world had never seen,” and intended to use these weapons in an attack upon the United States, and that such an attack was imminent.
3. It was the object of the conspiracy to use war to replace the leader of Iraq, to do a regime change, because said leader was acting in a bellicose manner after previous American administrations had professed friendship, guaranteed the sovereignty of, equipped with military hardware, and encouraged said Iraq leader in military adventurism prompting him to believe he could invade Kuwait in 1990 without repercussion. Thus, the United States itself was a party to laying the groundwork for a miscalculation that led to war.
4. It was further a part of the conspiracy to use the attacks on the World Trade Center of 9-11, 2001 to create a climate of fear and hysteria by falsely connecting Iraq to the event, when it had in fact no involvement at all. Said defendants Bush and Cheney used 9-11 to gain public support for war against Iraq.
5. It was further a part of the conspiracy to end a United Nations weapons inspection process in Iraq when it became clear that no such weapons were being found, the defendants Bush and Cheney realizing that if the situation continued, the war would be harder to sell.
6. It was further a part of the conspiracy that Iraq possessed rich oil reserves that could be controlled by the installation of a new government and that said defendants Bush and Cheney knew this and that contracts to rebuild war damage could be farmed out to American companies such as Halliburton, thus allowing the United States to acquire by force Iraq’s economy.
7. It was further a part of the conspiracy that once war was underway, the defendants and their coconspirators maintained a campaign of lies and disinformation to keep Congress and the American people compliant. Too numerous to include all, two examples are: For two years the defendants sought unsuccessfully to prove that an Iraqi weather balloon van was a mobile chemical weapons lab. On another occasion, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell was given a prepared statement to read to the public, and angrily threw the paper down and said, “I’m not going to read this shit!” Powell, who eventually was asked to resign for being too honest, has since openly expressed regret for being a dupe in the plot. In addition, defendants Bush and Cheney fired military officers or advisors who expressed doubt about the operation or raised troubling questions.
8. It was further a part of the conspiracy in that once war was underway; the defendants conducted it in an incompetent manner. As an example, troops were sent into combat without flak vests, leading to further American casualties.
9. It was further a part of the conspiracy to gain revenge on an official who was sent to Africa to see if a country there had sold “yellow pancake,” an ingredient in weapons of mass destruction, to Iraq. A report by the official that found no such transaction had taken place led the defendants and coconspirators to leak the identity of the official’s wife, who was an agent of the Central Intelligence Agency.
10. Congress is complicit as an accomplice in that they cowardly failed to do their job and raise tough questions and simply bought the falsehoods of the defendants, thereby becoming a rubber stamp.
End Result
1. The resulting war killed half a million people and destroyed Iraq resulting in widespread suffering and damage, far beyond the numbers of “evil people” the defendants said the war was being fought to bring to justice. Thousands of “innocents” were killed, whose only guilt was living in the wrong country, including women and children caught in the resulting cross fire. The war also resulted in the loss, perhaps for decades, of the United States being considered a humanitarian nation in the eyes of the world, despite the debate whether that designation was ever truly deserved.
2. The war and the power vacuum it left after the deposing of Iraq’s leader gave Al-Qaeda an opportunity to establish a base there to conduct operations. Al-Qaeda had not been in Iraq before this.
3. The war in Iraq resulted in the war in Afghanistan being largely ignored, which in turn led to deterioration in the situation in Afghanistan.
4. It is clear that the American government, and many of its people, want to shrug and forget the whole thing. This is an immoral position that operates under the supposition that because the United States is powerful and in control, it can do something wrong and simply walk away from it.
Somebody ought to CASTRATE this racist blowhard – Lou Dobbs! CNN’s chief in-house bigot, and “nativist compost thrower,” Lou Dobbs, last Wednesday (Nov. 28) referred to businesses countrywide as “corporate supremacists,” Democrats as “a pack of fools,” and pro-immigrant movements as “anarchists.”
This is the same individual who recently claimed that executives at CNN (a.k.a corporate supremacists) are getting nervous about him running for president!
LOL!
Said Dobbs, with “presidential importance,”…. “I don’t know where this is coming from.” “I have no interest in running, and I’ve said that throughout.”
Yeah right!…you would love to…punk!, but you would be mired at 2% rating like your comrade-in-arms — The permanent, mediocre fixture in Washington D.C. — Tom Tancredo, Congress’s resident “Nativist Orang Outang,” and an ignorant anti-immigrant hate-mongering thug….. A Colorado Terrorist!
Dan Abrams of MSNBC summed up Lou’s hallucinations perfectly:
“Yes, Lou, I’m sure the execs at CNN are about as worried about you running for president as the porn industry was about Mary Kerry running for governor of California.”
Broadcasting from Chicago, Illinois, America’s modern day Joseph Goebbels continued his pompous and merciless “career hammering” of immigrants.
In a segment of the program, one of Dobbs’s “hand-maidens,” Christine Romans, interviewed Mr. Joshua Hoyt of the “coalition for immigrant rights,” who said: The immigration debate has descended into the realm for bigots and bullies and demagogues…..adding: “There is a legitimate debate to be held about what should be done to end illegal immigration. We want to end illegal immigration. The question is how. But the debate, as it’s being held, panders to those people who are bigots.”
According to Romans, Joshua singled out Lou Dobbs’s program, noting that the show, in particular, panders to racial extremism.
To which Joseph Goebbels a.k.a. Lou Dobbs responded:
“Well Josh Hoyt, you know, what you pander to, partner, you are part of a coalition of the Catholic Church, corporate America, special socio-ethnocentric groups who are working to subvert the will of the majority of the people of this country. You’re working with corporate America and some other misguided abject fools who believe that your reasons are superior to our democracy, our system of government.” And you, sir, are going to lose, and you’re going to lose big to the American people on this issue. You had your run at introducing the concept of race instead of reason, introducing race instead of putting forward facts. Your day is done.
Mr. Dobbs — If the majority of “The People” subscribe to your hateful anti-immigrant agenda, why are your “comrades in hate,” presidential candidates Tom Tancredo and Duncan Hunter consistently pulling in less than 2% in the national polls?
Why are they not “top-tier” candidates?
To pile-drive his NAZI rhetoric, Lou Dobbs quickly switched to the most self-serving “People’s Email.”
Here goes:
“Let’s take a look at some of your thoughts now.” …And let’s turn to Larry in New Jersey.
“Lou, when I see the results from all the polls on illegal immigration, it seems pretty obvious what the American people want. Is our government blind, deaf and dumb? Have they seen their approval ratings lately? When are they going to wake up and listen to the people?” They’re going to wake up and listen when you force them to. And with 2008 upon us, this is a great time to make your views known.
Ed in Oregon said, “Lou, there are two things that legal citizens can do to send a clear message to our government and the Mexican government. Register Independent and boycott Mexican goods until Mexico and the United States stop illegal immigration.” That’s a thought.
And Gerry and Bev in Illinois said, “My wife and I are now registered Independents thanks to you. It’s never felt better to be free of the yoke of two-party politics. However, now where do we focus our efforts to make the changes in Washington we so desperately need? You’ve already begun and even if you don’t run yourself, they say your guidance is desperately needed.” Well we’re going to offer you a little food for thought. And one of those things is registering as an Independent is just the beginning. Now, let’s start taking over our local government, our local neighborhoods and communities and making sure they’re working. The rest will fall in order.
Then he plugs his book:
“We’ll have more of your thoughts here later in the broadcast.”
… Each of you whose e-mail is read here receives a copy of my new book, “Independents Day: Awakening the American Spirit.”…..TRANSLATE THAT TO: “Awakening the American Racist Spirit.”
Says Dobbs, “I believe the person elected a year from now will be an Independent populist,”….”I believe that independent Americans will demand a far better choice than any of the candidates now seeking their party’s nomination. I believe next November’s surprise will be the election of a man or woman of great character, vision and accomplishment, a candidate who has not yet entered the race.”
That’s Dobbs hallucinating again! …and Lou, we already have “populist racism” institutionalized in the ReTHUGlican party.
Lou Dobbs has likened immigrant advocates to Nazis before — a pathetic pre-emptive move to deprive his opponents the opportunity to call him the same, and rightly so — another NAZI tactic.
At one point he also criticized San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, saying that he and immigrant protection advocates “might as well work for Hermann Goering,” — leader of the Nazi air force — but he apparently meant to refer to Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi chief of propaganda.
Nope! Mr. Dobbs — You are the one drunk with NAZISM, and you have perfected the Nazi propaganda principles:
Lou Dobbs dehumanizes — He describes immigrants them as “terrorists” or “aliens” or “drug dealers,” …done with such cunning causticity, that his viewers ultimately believe that all immigrants are rotten good for nothing thieves and drug dealers.
Lou Dobbs lies and creates fear — Mr. Dobbs has claimed in his show that there have been 7,000 new cases of leprosy in the U.S. in recent years, attributing the increase to “illegal immigrants.”
Lou Dobbs demonizes & provokes — Lou facilitates oppressive actions against immigrants by repeatedly pontificating “one-sidedly” that immigrants are solely responsible for low wages and lack of jobs — without bothering to look at the other side of the coin.
Lou Dobbs red-baits — He accuses, denounces, and attacks the pro-immigrant lobbies, or anybody wanting to handle the immigration issue with reason, including the clergy, as the “illegal alien amnesty lobby,” or as “anarchists,” or as “corporate supremacists,” or “a pack of fools,”……
Lou Dobbs vilifies, arrogates & terrorizes — In concert with right-wing talk-show hosts, who he touts as “the best in America,” Dobbs & co have issued vicious and defamatory statements about immigrants. [See Doug McIntyre video below]
All the above are propaganda tactics perfected by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Regime.
“If you tell a lie big enough and coat it with ’some truths,’ and keep repeating it, people will come to believe it. The bigger the lie, the more it will be believed.” — A Nazi guiding principle
No wonder NOOSES are popping up everywhere in the United States.
Racist extortionists like Lou Dobbs, Rush Limbaugh, Tom Tancredo, and Doug McIntyre of KABC 790 Radio(California), validate racism through appropriation, shamelessly quoting iconic figures like Martin Luther King, or simply calling “normal people” racists or supremacists — The video below demonstrates this NAZI tactic.
“There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. That’s a good religion.”“Message to the Grass Roots,” speech, Nov. 1963, Detroit (published in Malcolm X Speaks, ch. 1, 1965).
What this moronic imbecile calls “the majority of Americans” is actually a fringe of die hard racists and bigots, the “TV coerced,” and the confused illiterates. For, poll after poll across America indicates that citizens are legitimately concerned about immigration, but most would like to see the matter handled speedily and comprehensively,… but as Joshua Hoyt, of the coalition for immigrant rights quite correctly states: The immigration debate has descended into the realm for bigots and bullies and demagogues…..led by Nazi propagandist Extortionist – Lou Dobbs, and funded by Big Business: CNN
Here is another example of Lou’s propaganda:
Fat Lou gloating (spit spilling out of his stinking mouth): — “The Liberal New York Times says Lou Dobbs is winning” — referring to a recent OP-ED by David Brooks(November 27, 2007) in which David states: “Lou Dobbs is winning. He’s not winning personally. He’s not going to start winning presidential awards or elite respect. But his message is winning. Month by month the ideas that once prevailed on the angry fringe enter the mainstream and turn into conventional wisdom.”
Adding:“So it’s worth pointing out now more than ever that Dobbsianism is fundamentally wrong. It plays on legitimate anxieties, but it rests at heart on a more existential fear — the fear that America is under assault and is fundamentally fragile. It rests on fears that the America we once knew is bleeding away.”
To an idiot sitting behind a TV, with no research capacity — LOU DOBBS MUST BE WINNING!
David Brooks is essentially saying the same thing I am saying, albeit in a much more “courteous manner” — Lou Dobbs is a racist prick!
….as racist and hopeless as all other right-wing talk-show morons who spread malicious rumors about Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
For example, Michael Savage noted in June that Obama’s “background” in a “Muslim madrassa in Indonesia”, and Rush Limbaugh said in September that he occasionally got “confused” between Obama and Osama bin Laden. Others have repeatedly used the senator’s middle name, Hussein….in an effort to unleash anti-muslim bigotry.
At the end of Lou’s program (Nov. 28),… in came the Republican Presidential candidates to debate — introduced by the Florida governor as “patriots,” and “men of honor,” as the “Rambos” paraded into the hall.
I turned off my TV, because I knew what was coming (also see references below): “Flip-Flops“…”Somersaults”…”War-Mongering”…”911!“…”119!”…”Red Alert!”…”999!”…”119!”…”It’s The Law!”…”Throw The Immigrants In Jail!”…”Torture!”…”Alkaida Is Here, Walking In This Hall!“…”Water-Boarding!”…”Water-Feeding!”…”Gay Bashing!”…”We Are Winning In Iraq!”…”Sanctuary Cities!”…”The Death Penalty!”…and more LIES and immigrant bashing.
The way Republicans subscribe to the death penalty sounds to me a lot like…“DEATH TO AMERICA!”, a favorite radical Islamist chant.
The Republican Party: Experts at distorting reason, and propagating politics of fear, hostility and hate — The party of Lou Dobbs, even though he claims to be an “Independent Populist THUG.”
Columnist Bob Herbert sums up the Republican Party and the current crop of presidential candidates most eloquently:
The Republican Party has won a lot of elections in recent years. So maybe this crop of candidates knows something about American voters that many us would rather not acknowledge, that too many of them are small-minded, fearful, bigoted and too shallow to recognize policies that are against their own — and their country’s — best interests.
“Naturally, the common people don’t want war. 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. It works the same way in any country.”
