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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rock_nj who wrote (10181)	3/2/2005 10:41:14 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 20039

OT OT Rock, Re: It really makes you wonder why we bothered to fight the cold war? We were suppossedly fighting against this form of autocratic government. I think you misunderstand that nature of the American elite. They have always been fascistic in their outlook toward foreign nations. Lt. Gen. Smedley Butler exposed his role as "thug for the bankers and corporations" when he retired from the U.S. Marines in the 1930s. Many writers have pointed out the true nature of U.S. foreign policy since WW II has consistently favored anti-democratic forces who suppress popular movement and populist leaders. The destruction of democratically elected and truly popular leaders like Mossadeq, Arbenz, Allende, Aristide, the Sandinistas and other progressives comes to mind here. And never forget that the right wing of the U.S. government has almost without a doubt been responsible for the assassination of progressive leadership in the U.S. including the murders of John and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Paul Wellstone and others. In the Cold War, the U.S. military and the corporate masters were not fighting against autocracy so much as they were fighting against any nation that had the audacity and the ability to put the needs of the People ahead of the needs of the elites. The fact that the American People do not understand this and have been brainwashed into thinking that we were opposed to totalitarianism is one of the great public relations coups of the Propaganda Ministry of Corporate America.