McGovern still on the antiwar path
In These Times
by Laura S. Washington
12/27/07
The old antiwar horse is still kicking. In 1972, South Dakota Sen. George McGovern (once a World War II bomber pilot) won the Democratic presidential nomination on an antiwar platform. In 2007, he’s still got game. In March 2007, McGovern called on Vice President Dick Cheney to resign. A month later, opining in the Los Angeles Times, he revisited the trauma of the Vietnam War era and excoriated George W. Bush and Cheney for blithely sacrificing American lives once again. ‘We, of course, already know that when Cheney endorses a war, he exempts himself from participation,’ he wrote. ‘On second thought, maybe it’s wise to keep Cheney off the battlefield — he might end up shooting his comrades rather than the enemy’...
http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=1578
Creeping Fascism: History’s lessons
Consortium News
by Ray McGovern
12/27/07
You don’t have to be a Nazi. You can just be, well, a sheep. In his journal Sebastian Haffner decries what he calls the “sheepish submissiveness” with which the German people reacted to a 9/11-like event, the burning of the German Parliament (Reichstag) on Feb. 27, 1933. Haffner finds it quite telling that none of his acquaintances “saw anything out of the ordinary in the fact that, from then on, one’s telephone would be tapped, one’s letters opened, and one’s desk might be broken into.”But it is for the cowardly politicians that Haffner reserves his most vehement condemnation. Do you see any contemporary parallels here?
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/122707a.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=fascism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McGovern
by Laura S. Washington
12/27/07
The old antiwar horse is still kicking. In 1972, South Dakota Sen. George McGovern (once a World War II bomber pilot) won the Democratic presidential nomination on an antiwar platform. In 2007, he’s still got game. In March 2007, McGovern called on Vice President Dick Cheney to resign. A month later, opining in the Los Angeles Times, he revisited the trauma of the Vietnam War era and excoriated George W. Bush and Cheney for blithely sacrificing American lives once again. ‘We, of course, already know that when Cheney endorses a war, he exempts himself from participation,’ he wrote. ‘On second thought, maybe it’s wise to keep Cheney off the battlefield — he might end up shooting his comrades rather than the enemy’...
http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=1578
Creeping Fascism: History’s lessons
Consortium News
by Ray McGovern
12/27/07
You don’t have to be a Nazi. You can just be, well, a sheep. In his journal Sebastian Haffner decries what he calls the “sheepish submissiveness” with which the German people reacted to a 9/11-like event, the burning of the German Parliament (Reichstag) on Feb. 27, 1933. Haffner finds it quite telling that none of his acquaintances “saw anything out of the ordinary in the fact that, from then on, one’s telephone would be tapped, one’s letters opened, and one’s desk might be broken into.”But it is for the cowardly politicians that Haffner reserves his most vehement condemnation. Do you see any contemporary parallels here?
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/122707a.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=fascism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McGovern
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