[Rhodes22-list] Politics: Goering on Going to War

[Bill Berner]

To use a metaphor - Cutting off someones head is not necessarily an
effective cure for brain cancer.

Getting rid of a dictator does not necessarily mean that what follows will
be better, and there is no indication that there is a plan for who to build
a new Iraq that will hold together the Kurds, Shiites, and Sunni's in a way
that doesn't just as brutally repress one or more of those groups.  I repeat
myself, but the US doesn't have a great record when it comes to sustained
follow through at nation building, and in Iraq we will be trying to do it in
a place where we are, to put it kindly, not trusted by the populace,
especially because of our abandoning the Kurds in the north and Shiites (I
think) in the South when they regbelled against Hussein after the last war.


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-----Original Message-----
From: rhodes22-list-bounces@rhodes22.org
[mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces@rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Rik Sandberg
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 8:35 AM
To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Politics: Goering on Going to War

Sorry Bill,

But I'm not quite that wishy washy. Some things are just plain wrong and
need 
to get "cured". It seems that the US is the only country in the world that
is 
willing to spearhead the effort. Most of the rest are willing to overlook 
Saddam's atrosities for the sake of the profits they are making by trading 
him weapons and such for his oil. Again, where are our priorities here??? 
Saddam Hussein is about as good an example of wrong as I have seen in a long

time, I truly can't believe that he has lived this long.

Rik


On Wednesday 26 March 2003 08:58 am, you wrote:
> "Naturally, the common people don't want war, but after all, it is the
> leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple
> matter to drag 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. 
> This is easy.  All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked,
and
> denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to
> danger.  It works the same in every country."
>
> Hermann Goering
> Hitler's Reich-Marshall
> At the Nuremberg Trials
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