Something Very Scary

I copy this from The Cunning Realist because it is just too scary not to make sure that everyone reads. The George W. Bush and Goebbel quotes I added, as well as link to an excellent retort of Karl Rove by Kristen Breitweiser, a 9-11 widow from New Jersey.

Very scary, folks. Very scary!

(If you don't want to be scared, just scroll down to the pics in the next post.)

Thursday, June 23, 2005

Darkest Instincts

The words of two men separated by almost sixty years, submitted without comment:

"Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers. Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals."

-Karl Rove 6/22/05

"Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, 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 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 any country"

-Hermann Goering 4/18/46, when the gig was up

Below added by Spider

"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." -- George W. Bush, May 24, 2005.

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." -- Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's chief propagandist.

Stinging response to Karl Rove by Kristen Breitweiser.