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Current reading/listening ::
The New Yorker: Offense and Defense: The battle between Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon:
In the planner’s view, Rumsfeld had two goals: to demonstrate the efficacy of precision bombing and to “do the war on the cheap.” Rumsfeld and his two main deputies for war planning, Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith, “were so enamored of ‘shock and awe’ that victory seemed assured,” the planner said.
Norman Mailer’s speech [broken link] to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on March 2 (introduction ends at 6:30).
Peter Freundlich - Through the looking-glass with President Bush:
We are going to ignore the United Nations in order to make clear to Saddam Hussein that the United Nations cannot be ignored.
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Also, in dealing with a man who brooks no dissension at home, we cannot afford dissension among ourselves. We must speak with one voice against Saddam Hussein’s failure to allow opposing voices to be heard.
Kucinich Takes to The House Floor To Call For An End to The War (Apr 1):
Stop the war now. This war has been advanced on lie upon lie. Iraq was not responsible for 9/11. Iraq was not responsible for any role al-Qaeda may have had in 9/11. Iraq was not responsible for the anthrax attacks on this country. Iraq did not tried to acquire nuclear weapons technology from Niger. This war is built on falsehood.
Just the Beginning: Is Iraq the opening salvo in a war to remake the world? [American Prospect]:
Over and over again, in speeches, articles and white papers, the neoconservatives have made it plain that the war against Iraq is intended to demonstrate Washington’s resolve to implement President Bush’s new national-security strategy, announced last fall—even if doing so means overthrowing the entire post-World War II structure of treaties and alliances, including NATO and the United Nations
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Questionable Quotes (Hermann Goering) (status: True):
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 exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
– Hermann Goering during the Nuremberg trials, 1946
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