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To: Taro who wrote (230630)	4/25/2005 10:43:16 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572501

Taro, You have a misunderstanding of what the basic tenets of socialism are. For example, Hitler did not nationalize many segments of the German economy, relying instead upon corporate organizations to do his biding. This is not socialism. This is corporatism. W/R/T high wages for soldiers, this is no indication of socialism. It is an indication of militarism. In the illegal U.S. occupation of Iraq today, we face a similarly evil situation, though perhaps even worse. George Bush is paying many mercenaries huge salaries at the expense of average Americans. I find it completely galling that families struggling to make ends meet in the Heartland are expected to pay huge income taxes (since they are picking up the burden as the super-rich walk away from their obligations to society) while these mercenary freaks earn in excess of $100,000 per annum, most of which is free of Federal Income tax. The American taxpayer is being played fo a chump by Bush, the mercenaries and the despicable war-profiteering contractors like KBR, Bechtel, Custer-Batttles, Blackwater, CACI, etc. Watch your pocket being picked by the War Profiteers: warprofiteers.com

To: Taro who wrote (230630)	4/25/2005 5:08:59 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572501

"Power politics and militarism over pacifism. Allan Bullock, probably the world's greatest Hitler historian, sums up Hitler's political method in one sentence: "Stripped of their romantic trimmings, all Hitler's ideas can be reduced to a simple claim for power which recognizes only one relationship, that of domination, and only one argument, that of force." (21) The following quotes by Hitler portray his rather stunning contempt for pacifism: "If the German people in its historic development had possessed that herd unity [defined here by Hitler as racial solidarity] which other peoples enjoyed, the German Reich today would doubtless be mistress of the globe. World history would have taken a different course, and no one can distinguish whether in this way we would not have obtained what so many blinded pacifists today hope to gain by begging, whining and whimpering: a peace, supported not by the palm branches of tearful, pacifist female mourners, but based on the victorious sword of a master people, putting the world into the service of a higher culture." (22) "We must clearly recognize the fact that the recovery of the lost territories is not won through solemn appeals to the Lord or through pious hopes in a League of Nations, but only by force of arms." (23) "In actual fact the pacifistic-humane idea is perfectly all right perhaps when the highest type of man has previously conquered and subjected the world to an extent that makes him the sole ruler of this earth… Therefore, first struggle and then perhaps pacifism." (24)" huppi.com