"MTRP(tm)" <Mir.Topolski@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> The Black Monk wrote:
>> There are very many parallels between Wilson (who declared war on Good
>> Friday) and Bush. Both were idolized by American Protestant
>> fundamentalists, both claimed they would change the world through
>> democracy and "progress". Bush, 2001 speaking at the Citadel told us
>> that: "America must fight the enemies of progress." These sorts of
>> sentiments come to mind when reading similar ones around the time that
>> America helped send Western civilization into a tailspin by causing
>> Germany and Austria-Hungary's defeat in World War I:
>>
>> Methodist minister Worth M. Tippy, 1919: "The forces of democracy will
>> invade and rebuild every institution of the world."
>>
>> President of Brown University, 1918: "The Central Powers believe that
>> government by the people is 'government by the gutter' and
>> we...believe that 'the voice of the people is the voice of God"
>>
>> Herbert Willett, editor of the Christian Century, at the end of the
>> war: "The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. The conception of God as a
>> monarch, all-powerful, remote, transcendent and autocratic is no
>> longer suited to the needs or the comprehension of the modern mind."
>>
>> Celebrated Protestant Harry Emerson, 1922: "this new and powerful
>> force, the idea of Progress, which in every realm is remaking man's
>> thinking."
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>> Of course there are many other examples. One can compare Bush-era
>> "freedom fries" to 1918 "liberty burgers" and "liberty
>> cabbage" (hamburgers and saurkraut, respectively), the destruction of
>> American civil liberties under Wilson and under Bush, etc. etc.
>> Watching Youtube clips of Bush's idiotic speeches demonstrate history
>> repeating itself as a joke again.
>
> That's it. But only purebred idiots like GWB dare to repeat it. I
> would call W. Wilson merely an idealist ... actually without (US made)
> world depression his naive democratism could survive in Germany, say.
> But US democratic crusade for Iraqi oil has little to do with
> idealism. It's both cynicism and idiocy.
Herr Mueller,
Without Americans to buy your crappy cars, Deutschland ist kaput!
Dumkoph!
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