Originally published May 7 2004
In war, America has become the new Nazi Germany
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
The article quoted here offers an intelligent, passionate discussion of
the increasing parallels between Nazi Germany and the modern United
States. The details are all too familiar: the mudering of enemy
civilians in the name of God, the inhumane torture of prisoners, the
destruction of an entire village or town as "payback" for the killing of
U.S. soldiers, the murder of Iraqi medical personnel by U.S. snipers,
and of course the twisted belief that all of these acts are fully
justifiable because "we are the good guys" and, ridiculously, "we're
trying to help the Iraqis!" It's nonsense. As an editorial in the
Christian Science Monitor astutely points out, you can't torture
your way to a Democracy. The U.S. is an invader, an occupying
military force, and has now been caught in despicable acts including the
torture of a young Iraqi girl. Even with all the superior firepower,
high technology and seemingly unlimited military budget, the U.S. still
can't claim total control of Iraqi streets. So what's the solution? Send
in more troops, of course!
But it's more than just atrocities on
foreign soil. The Nazi attitude towards war in Iraq has also met us
head-on at home in terms of the growing police state now threatening the
privacy and security of ordinary citizens. It smacks of the KGB or SS
troops in Germany.
As Americans, we have a responsibility to stand
against this war, to protest the continued murder of the Iraqi people at
the hands of the U.S. military, and to voice our opinions as loudly as
we can. This war is being fought in our name -- America -- and its
horrific image will no doubt outlast the modern-day empire of evil now
running the United States. Should we fail to stop this war, we run the
risk of our own nation falling into the same mindset that allowed
Germany to terrorize its own people while committing horrific atrocities
at the hands of its military. And, yes, President Bush would make an
outstanding Hitler.
Sadly, the much-ballyhooed liberation has become the brutal occupation
we critics always predicted it would become.
But warhawks have now gone from cheerleaders of war to apologists for
war criminals, and proponents of the difficult but necessary surgery in
Iraq, of indefinite subjugation.
Ten days before the invasion, Bill O'Reilly penned The New Nazis, a
concise Neocon memo for a preemptive strike against Iraq, concluding
with an ironic twist: "Nobody can predict the outcome and aftermath of
any war.
Before that time, the God-fearing Germans could almost convince
themselves (as we've convinced ourselves), that their Christian ideals
were intact--if only they could ignore the stench of death from the
prison camp next door.
American Special Forces veteran Stan Goff observed in an open letter
to US troops in Iraq, "Abuses and violations of the Geneva Conventions
and Laws of Warfare are already on record, such as: (1) Shooting people
who are clearly not armed and who are engaged in no threatening
behavior.
In America, as was the case in Nazi Germany, the imperceptible slide
to tyranny increases in direct proportion to the number of voices of
conscience that are ignored."
Besides the ten thousand Iraqi troops who were killed in the first
weeks of the war, an unknown number of civilians died in the
"liberation" that followed and the year since.
Truly whether one is Pro-Life or Pro-Choice, evil is a child purposely
defaced by poison.
If for nothing else, this deliberate crime against humanity should
send someone to the gallows.
Columnist Maggie Gallagher wrote a column called The Banality of Evil
some years before she justified her current support for the occupation
of Iraq.
The patriotic columnists of www.townhall.com are curiously quiet about
the root causes of evil--the decades-long US support of dictators,
tyranny and torture--but outspoken in the continuous application of
American troops as a failed remedy.
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