From: "Gary Britt" 

There is a big difference here Bob.  Goering is describing a wag the dog
scenario, that would be much more likely the province of a democrap
President in trouble for his lying and dishonorable conduct in the
Whitehouse.

Wag the dog is based upon a false and made up attack or threat of violence.
Goering is likewise describing a false or made up attack or threat of
violence.

Republicans didn't make up islamofascism.  We are under attack by a real
enemy, and we are taking the war to them.  Since its a real threat then
Goering doesn't apply.

And before you respond with WMD, I'll answer for you.  Its irrelevant to
the fact that the attacks and threats from islamofascists are real, not
made up. Disagreements over whether Iraq furthered our defense from
islamofascists is irrelevant to the point that we have a real enemy in
islamofascism and this is not made up.

Goering's quote is based on an element of truth of how things work in the
real world, but with the twist that the threat is made up and false.  The
world had never seen wag the dog before, until the Nazi's.

Only the gullible or the dishonest would fall for this false comparison or
try to use it in the first place.

Gary

"Robert Comer"  wrote in
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> > "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 pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing
> > the
> > country to greater danger." - Hermann Goering.
>
> Wow, I'd never have thought that Goering could have described U.S.
> Republican tactics so well.
>
> --
> Bob Comer
>
>
> "Phil Payne" 
wrote in message
> news:4398357b$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> >> "Bush administration officials, including Alberto Gonzales,
> >> attorney-general, had argued that important sections of the United
> >> Nations international convention against torture (CAT) did not apply
> >> outside US territory."
> >
> >> article 2 of the cat:
> >>
> >> 2. No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a
> >> threat of war, internal political in stability or any other public
> >> emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture.
> >
> > One wonders if a reading comprehension test should be added to the
> > confirmation hearings for such officials.  Perhaps the first couple of
> > pags
> > of a "Janet and John" book?
> >
> > Otherwise I'm amazed at the lack of common decency and morality shown by
> > the
> > current leaders of the USA.
> >
> >> The "secret prisons" issue was a central topic at a
joint EU-Nato
> >> ministers' dinner last night, with Ms Rice coming under considerable
> >> pressure - particularly from Nordic states, Luxembourg and France - to
> >> explain Washington's position "
> >
> > I feel sorry for them having to sit with such an evil person - like
being
> > asked to have dinner with Heinrich Heydrich.
> >
> > "Another survivor, Lise Lesevre, recalled how Klaus Barbie
tortured her
> > for
> > nine days in 1944, beating her, nearly drowning her in a bathtub."
> >
> > Sound familiar?
> >
> > "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 pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing
> > the
> > country to greater danger." - Hermann Goering.
> >
> > --
> >  Phil Payne
> >  http://www.isham-research.co.uk
> >  +44 7833 654 800
> >
> >
>
>

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