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Re: [casi] MEMRI: Action Plan in event of Regime Downfall




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I am wondering, MEMRI is funded by the US government.  Would this perhaps be
an excellent opportunity to "do" something about this?
Amidst all the forged documents, Niger, Sexed up dossiers, plagerized
dossiers, aluminum tubes, 'deployed chemical weapons,' rebuilt weapons manufacturing
sites, etc., this seems to me to be the sort of the thing that should be
public knowledge esp as it is publicly funded.
Seems to be another shoe hitting the ground and a link to Israeli propaganda
attempting to further sully the Arab world.

Roger Stroope
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff USA

During the war crimes trials at Nuremberg, psychologist Gustave Gilbert
visited Nazi Reichsmarshall Hermann Goering in his prison cell. "We got around to
the subject of war again and I said that, contrary to his attitude, I did not
think that the common people are very thankful for leaders who bring them war
and destruction," Gilbert wrote in his journal, Nuremberg Diary.

"Why, of course, the people don't want war," Goering shrugged. "Why would
some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can
get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? ... That is
understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy
and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a
democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a parliament or a communist dictatorship
... 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
danger. It works the same way in any country."






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