The People Can Always Be Brought To The Bidding Of The Leaders. That Is Easy.... "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 ... 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 bring 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 peacemakers for lack of patriotism and for exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." -- Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichsmarshall under Adolf Hitler, at the Nuremberg trials

"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die." --Jean-Paul Sartre

Can you say "Exxon-Enron-Amoco-Texaco-Gulf-Mobil-Shell-and-let's-not-forget-Halliburton", boys and girls? "Show me who makes a profit from war and I'll show you how to stop the war!" --Millionaire Industrialist, Henry Ford

WAR!...CORPORATIONS!...CORRUPTION!...THE 1800s?! "As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people until wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war." "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." -- President Abraham Lincoln

Lies and Truth and Smoke and Mirrors "We never said there were stockpiles." -- Deputy Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz, in a CBS Radio interview, March 16, 2004 Five (5) Statements by the Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld: 1) "They have amassed large clandestine stockpiles of chemical weapons including VX and sarin and mustard gas." Source: Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, Defense Department (9/27/2002). ...and again... 2) "He has stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons." Source: Testimony of U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, Senate Armed Services Committee (9/19/2002). ...and again... 3) "His regime has amassed large clandestine stockpiles of chemical weapons, including VX and sarin and mustard gas." Source: Testimony of U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld before the House Armed Services Committee, House Armed Services Committee (9/18/2002). ...and again... 4) "He has, at this moment, stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons." Source: Testimony of U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld before the House Armed Services Committee, House Armed Services Committee (9/18/2002). ...and yet again... 5) "He's amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of chemical weapons, including VX, sarin and mustard gas." Source: Testimony of U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, Senate Armed Services Committee (9/19/2002).

A Military Commander Who Became President... "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. --General Dwight D. Eisenhower; April 16, 1953 A President Who Became A Military Commander... "I'm the commander -- see, I don't need to explain -- I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being president." "Bring 'em on." -- George W. Bush, on attacks against US forces in Iraq, July 3, 2003

HOMELAND SECURITY MULTIPLE CHOICE QUIZ WHO SAID IT? [A] George W Bush [B] Adolf Hitler QUESTION ONE: "An evil exists that threatens every man, woman, and child of this great nation. We must take actions to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland." ANSWER: QUESTION TWO: "There ought to be limits to freedom." ANSWER:

"Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." --Benjamin Franklin

What Would Woodrow Think of the Patriot Act? "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it." --President Woodrow Wilson

The Twilight Before ... The Night Falls "As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air -- however slight -- lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." "Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us." -- US Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas (1898-1980)

The Irony Is Lost On Conservatives "Back in 2000 a Republican friend warned me that if I voted for Al Gore and he won, the stock market would tank, we'd lose millions of jobs, and our military would be totally over-stretched. You know what? I did vote for Gore, he did win, and I'll be damned if all those things didn't come true!" --James Carville

OUR PRESIDENT SPEAKS ... SORT OF "The senator has got to understand if he's going to have—he can't have it both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road." —To reporters in Florence, S.C., Feb. 17, 2000 "This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve." —Speaking during "Perseverance Month" at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H. As quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000 "Secondly, the tactics of our—as you know, we don't have relationships with Iran. I mean, that's—ever since the late '70s, we have no contacts with them, and we've totally sanctioned them. In other words, there's no sanctions—you can't—we're out of sanctions." —Annandale, Va., Aug. 9, 2004

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AMEN! "The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." --President George Washington, Treaty of Tripoli, 1796 "Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law." --President Thomas Jefferson, February 10, 1814

GOD Told Him To Do It "I feel like God wants me to run for president. I can't explain it, but I sense my country is going to need me. Something is going to happen and, at that time, my country is going to need me. I know it won't be easy on me or my family, but God wants me to do it." -- George W. Bush upon deciding to run for President in 2000

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