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Briar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 09:16 AM
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Enabling Evil
Enabling Evil
Bush's Willing Executioners
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

In 1996 Daniel Jonah Goldhagen published Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. His thesis is that the mass murder of Jews was not done on the quiet by a few Nazi fanatics. Instead, Goldhagen writes, by their complicity ordinary Germans were willing participants in the slaughter.

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If Germans were complicit, as Goldhagen claims, how can Americans avoid the charge of complicity in Bush's crimes against Iraq when Americans are in possession of such damning facts and have the power of impeachment? Why do Americans tolerate a liar and a war criminal as their president?

Why has Congress voted still more money for an illegal war launched in deception?

Why does the US military permit its human and physical resources to be squandered in a pointless war that has no strategy for victory and no timetable for withdrawal?

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More at:

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts06142005.html
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Double T Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 09:23 AM
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1. Evil Criminals Are In Charge Of Everything Within Our Government.....
at this time. The system of checks and balances has been neutralized and they are getting away with EVERYTHING that should already be in the hands of special prosecutors for indictment.
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getmeouttahere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 09:26 AM
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2. I've always wondered if someone....
was going to introduce Goldhagen's book as a parallel to what is happening today. There are definitely similiarities.
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