What do Bush and Cheney really represent?

Thinking about how Bush and company's misadministration has been willing to lie about the Duelfer report makes me wonder what their real goals are.

Duelfer's report said what ambitions Saddam harbored for such weapons were secondary to his goal of evading those sanctions, and he wanted them primarily not to attack the United States or to provide them to terrorists, but to oppose his older enemies, Iran and Israel.

Of course, Cheney just lies, lies, lies, and lies...hits and kicks... and then he denies it. Just like a school yard bully on a bad day. Well, Cheney is perpetually lying and most Americans don't even get all of the information that they need!

In thinking about these problems I am reminded of some comments from one of the original brownshirts. Here is an excerpt of comments by Hermann Goering as interviewed by Gustave Gilbert April 18, 1946, as quoted in Gilbert's book Nuremberg Diary.

"Why, of course, the people don't want to go to war. Why should 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.

"Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. 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.

"...the people can always be brought to the bidding of their leaders. 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 in any country."

If you have recently observed the process Goering describes in the contemporary political environment, you might want to ask who is modeling behavior in conformity to Goering's strategies? And if you want to have that person as President of the United States in 2005? To paraphrase Paul Rivere, the Brownshirts are coming.

This is the first time since I began voting that I feel so sufficiently alarmed by the current administration to elevate my concern to the level of demanding your political participation in the forthcoming election.

And to request that you vote for John Kerry and get others to do the same! Or embrace the fascism that is coming.