Preemption and Dishonor
By Peter Fredson
March 17, 2006
As a result of personal experiences during World War II, comparing them with the state of our nation today, I see numerous similarities between the actions of the Bush neocons and the Brown Shirts of Adolph Hitler. Hitler, Goering, Goebbels, Himmler et al.
What do I see? Hold tight, now.
The SS Troops, the Homeland Security, the fervent and pious preachers with their "Gott Mitt Uns), the claims of racial superiority, the warrant less arrests, the indefinite detentions, the secret jails, the torture and abuse, the public lies, the riotous optimism, the bullying of smaller nations, the "go-it-alone" attitude, the disdain of diplomacy, the domestic spying, the knocks on the door by secret police, the kidnapping of victims, the lack of all legal representation, the crushing of all civil dissent, the eternal swaggering, strutting and smirking of Adolph, Benito and George, the hatred of gays, the selective Biblical quotes, the subversion of all "representatives" of the people, the rush to kneel behind the great tyrant and kiss his butt, the incessant propaganda glorifying the regime, the use of religion, flag, and patriotism to give True Believers a grand sense of destiny, the sameness of their Patriot Acts, the relentless speeches delivered to audiences that dared not utter a word of dissent, the heavy security around the tyrant, the "bubble" of adulation bolstering the confidence of Der Fuhrer, the fear that was purposely installed by the tyrant, the hatred of heretics and infidels, the enormous claims of cultural superiority, the heavy display of flags and crosses to give a false sense of a "chosen" people, the absolute contempt for other views, the arrogant claims to being above any law, the absolute pandering of all the media, the entire cabinet lying their heads off in order to prepare pretexts for invasion of another country, the vast preparations of the military-industrial establishment to ensure enough munitions, tanks, guns, planes, submarines and warship to overcome all resistance, and the atmosphere of terror that surrounded anyone brave enough to speak above a whisper.
Listening to foreign news meant immediate detention, abuse, torture and ignominious painful death. Speaking ill of the leader and his henchmen meant death.
In fact, any domestic opposition brought very swift reprisal, imprisonment and death. Everyone was obliged to spy on everyone else. Journalists reported and printed only approved sanitized "news" skillfully prepared by master propagandists.
I am only mentioning the more common methods of keeping order with ordinary Germans. There was a Holocaust. Millions of people died so that Aryan Supremacy, like Christian Supremacy, could reign triumphant.
I saw the Concentration Camp at Dachau, shortly after our troops killed or chased away the guards. I saw a railroad car full of skeletal bodies, starved beyond any notion of humanity.
There was NO compassion, no love, and no pity ... just Death.
I heard the Hitler officials cynically plead NOT Guilty at the Nuremburg trials then saw them in newsreels swinging from the gallows later, with Benito Mussolini hanging upside down and beaten to death in Rome.
Abu Ghraib did not arise in a vacuum. It arose from the neocon pretensions and cowardly personal fears and paranoia. Did no one hear that Bush has deliberately asked to be allowed to torture and abuse, and that his daily henchmen and most Republican Senators did not even blink in distaste or disbelief?
We may not yet have progressed to death for every offense against our courageous and marvelous leader although thousands have been spied upon, arrested, held indefinitely, and are even now having their conversations recorded, their writings copied and filed for later action.
You cannot get near Bush wearing a sweat shirt with any lettering on it, lest his imperial dignity suffer outrage.
Or, as they allege, some terrorist will take advantage of the sweatshirt problem to come over here and disrupt some state barbecue of rancher Bush with a great hail of bullets, or nuclear devices.
The security around the Bush bubble is as heavy as any that Hitler or Mussolini ever had. The adulation of sycophants is nearly identical. The people's representatives are blind, deaf and dumb and allow the great tyrant to do whatever his whim wishes.
But it is not enough to frighten his own people to death with fake terror warnings and visions of anthrax or some other catastrophe hitting Crawford, Texas in the dead of night, killing all the cattle, horses and people in a 50-mile radius because those Muslims hate Democracy.
Now Bush is accomplishing the next step in his PNAC strategy for world domination. Before his "inauguration" the neocons decided to invade Iraq, Iran and Syria. Flowing with oil, and full of people the corporations could get to work for slave wages, those countries presented a mouth-watering juicy prize for the taking.
The strategy was to find some pretext, any pretext, to go to war. Not only would this bring rich loot and land, but would suit the hungry our military-industrial establishment in manufacturing enormous quantities of arms and ammunition but would also provide billions of dollars into corporation and executive bank accounts.
So, after Iraq was invaded purely by malicious well-prepared lies about aluminum tubes, mushroom clouds, yellow-cake, thousands of people dying from Saddam anthrax, nuclear bombs, poison gas and other extremely dangerous methods which scared the crap out of True Believers and the entire Congress.
This was called "preemptive action." It is a disgrace on our military, who have been shamed by the Bush lies and have produced shameful conduct.
They have been made toadies, murderers, and conscienceless pirates by the Bushites. Once West Pointers had an excellent reputation, a fine code of conduct.
It never included sneak attacks, midnight assassinations, sending missiles flying without warning into foreign territory, using shock and awe against helpless populations, or the plain massacre of Iraqi women and children, or the malicious destruction of their means of livelihood, their infrastructure, or the "crusade" against Muslims.
For the past 3 years all the Bush cabinet, especially the little Black Angel of Death Condi Rice have been preparing another war, which may extend to the entire world, against Iran and Syria. They daily threaten those nations with the most scurrilous lies and well-scripted insults against the sovereignty and dignity of Muslim countries.
This is called "The Bush Doctrine." It fits him well. It is shameless, brutal, sneaky, pirate-like, and sudden, with great possibilities of mass death and destruction in order to suit the imperial whims of our tyrant.
However we know that Bush and his cabinet remain in power by lies, deceit, stealth, and imposition. They have no credibility. So we know what their plan is. They do not fool the majority of Americans.
All their protestations that they are not preparing war or some aggressive action have fallen in the crapper of the Bush Whitehouse. They lie, they lie incessantly, they lie in the morning, they lie at night, and they lie in every speech.
Only the gullible, superstitious dominionist Christian Fundamentalists and their neocon allies give even the slightest credence to the great lie of preemption. Our military must be aware that this is not in tune with American values of honor, uprightness, courage, and diplomacy.
Our military must be aware that even some magnificent Prussian officers with their code of honor, joined Hitler and became corrupt and subverted. Will our famous Officer Corps disgrace their uniforms?
Preemption is the path for pathological cowards, for egomaniacs, for bushwhacking, stealth, lies, deceit, misinformation, dishonor, ignominy, house-robbers, pirates, mobsters, vile scoundrels, sneaks, evil-doers, and for murderers-lying-in-wait.
It well suits the Bush thugs and bullies.