“Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best 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 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…. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.”
—Hermann Goering, Luftwaffe Commander, Nuremberg Trials 1946, from Nuremberg Diary by Gustave Gilbert
Earlier this week, a CBS/New York Times poll indicated that the American citizenry is more concerned about the economy than war with Iraq. Only 20% of those polled thought Congress is asking enough questions about the Bush administration’s policy toward Iraq.
Yesterday Early this morning, Congress voted to abdicate its responsibility for declaring war to the unelected, installed President George W. Bush. So we will have war whether we want it or not.
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