Leopolds Ghost
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Fri Sep-29-06 06:29 PM
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Thom Hartmann doing a Great "Rest of the Story" on HITLER |
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For any of you who ever listened to Paul Harvey, you'll get the reference:
How an act of terrorism elevated the leader to power...
How he was elected in a controversial election...
How newspapers ran full-page flags to be put in windows...
How he convinced people that the enemy was a foreign people, with roots in the middle east and motivated by religion
How he pretended to be deeply religious...
How he agreed to a 4-year sunset provision to the revokation of habeas corpus and wiretapping laws, in case the terrorist emergency had passed by then...
How the legislature, not wanting to appear soft on foreign incursion and terror, agreed...
Introducing the word "Homeland" "Der Heimat der alles Deutsch"
Within a year of the terrorist attack... "Gott mit uns"... and most of them fervently believed it.
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In another post which got eaten by the server shutdown I pointed out how all of a sudden Al Quaeda has been exhorting the west with political appeals resembling a stereotypical media version of the leftist critque of Bush... and I'm thinking... this is nonsense. These people wanted to kill us, not lecture us about how we re-elected Bush. They went after us when Bush was barely known for anything. Now someone's pretending the terrorists attacked us for our love of Bush. WE'RE BEING PLAYED.
Either the tapes are being faked, Al Quaeda's playing us like a fiddle to drive us into the arms of a mutual enemy (Bush) to the mutual advantage of Al Quaeda and the neocons (collectively, the "war interests" here and abroad) or worse, there is some treason involved.
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Thom back on with his comparison.
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Fri Sep-29-06 06:31 PM
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1. We are having dinner and listening and shedding some tears. |
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Edited on Fri Sep-29-06 06:38 PM by madfloridian
Guess we shouldn't do that while eating...but he is so right on.
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