Chronique de Rodrigue Tremblay

Bush's Big Mess in the Middle East


"You [President Paul von Hindenburg] have just handed over our sacred German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I prophesy to you this evil man will plunge our Reich into the abyss and will inflict immeasurable woe on our nation..." German General Erich Ludendorff, 1933 "He that is the author of a war (of aggression) lets loose the whole contagion of hell and ...

The Politico-Religious Israeli-Palestinian Conflict/(PART II)


"I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy [in the Middle East] not approved by the Jews.... I am very much concerned over the fact that the Jewish influence here is completely dominating the scene and making it almost impossible to get Congress to do anything they don't approve of. The Israeli embassy is practically dictating to the Congress through influential Jewish peo...

Looking for a Gulf of Tonkin-like Incident


"The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force." Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) 3rd American President "Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism." Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) 3rd American President "If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conques...

Drums of War and Orchestrated Hysteria about Iran


"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for yound men to die in ." George McGovern, former US senator and presidential candidate "Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other." Thomas Jefferson, (1743-1826), 3rd US President "The United States...

Why are Canada and NATO in Afghanistan?


"The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place." Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) "The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human cor...

Options after the Deconstruction of Iraq


"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction." Dick Cheney, August 26, 2002 "Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons." George W. Bush, September 12, 2002 "Intelligence leaves no doubt that Iraq continues to possess and conceal lethal weapons." Geo...

Gambling to Save Face on Iraq


"Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but it is always a simple matter to drag the people along. 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. It works the same in every country." Hermann Goering (1893-1946), SS Nazi leader “Americans will speak of the battles like Fallu...

Destructive Dreams of World Domination


"I'm the decider, and I decide what's best." George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States "The president has adopted a policy of 'anticipatory self-defense' that is alarmingly similar to the policy that imperial Japan employed at Pearl Harbor, on a date which, as an earlier American president said it would, live in infamy. Franklin D. Roosevelt was right, but today it is we Americ...

The Economics of John K. Galbraith and Milton Friedman


"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." John Kenneth Galbraith "The Great Depression [1929-39], like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy." Milton Friedm...

May I Quote You, Mr. President?


Here is a selection of quotes from President George W. Bush with accompanying dates and sources: #1: "International law? I better call my lawyer; he didn't bring that up to me." George W. Bush, December 12, 2003. #2: "We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace."/George W.Bush's Address to the United Nations General Assembly, Se...

One Down; Two to Go


"I'm the decider, and I decide what's best. And what's best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the secretary of defense." George W. Bush, American President, April 14, 2006 "One of Hitler's biggest lies was constantly to assure the world of peaceful intentions while obviously planning war by building up massively strong armed forces." John Laffin, (Hitler Warned Us) "Some ...

The Arms Market and the Arms Race


"A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it." William Ralph Inge “What's the point of having this superb military... if we can't use it?” Madeleine Albright, former American ambassador to the UN and former Sec. of State "It is not an exaggeration to say that it is clearly in the interests of the world's leading arms exporters to mak...

The Politics of Delusion and Crisis Denial


"Our presence in Iraq exacerbates the difficulties we are facing around the world, and...continuing to fight in Iraq will only make the situation worse." General Sir Richard Dannatt, British Army Chief "If people say there has been an energising of the jihadist movement through the protracted war in Iraq- well, that's pretty obvious." General Peter Cosgrove, former Australian Defence c...

Headwinds for the US Economy


"In the long run, we are all dead." John M. Keynes (1883-1946) Fourth sorrow: "There is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education, health, and safety of its citizens." Chalmers Johnson, (Sorrows of Empire) "The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Wash...

The Nuclear Arms Race and National Sovereignty


"People who talk of outlawing the atomic bomb are mistaken _ - what needs to be outlawed is war." _ Leslie Richard Groves “The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe." _ Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "A people without a reliable war deterrent are bound to meet a tragic death and the ...

Wars and Propaganda Machines


"The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements-I had no idea until then that you could not rely on [them]." _ James W. Fulbright (1905-1995), former US senator Third sorrow: "The replacement of truth by propaganda, disinformation, and the glorification of war, power, and the military legions." _ Chalmers Johnson, (Sorrows of Empire) ”If you tell a lie ...

A Political Culture of Lies and War


"The President's [George W. Bush's] decision to ignore intelligence community assessments prior to the Iraq war and to make repeated public statements that gave the misleading impression that Saddam Hussein's regime was connected to the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 cost him any credibility he may have had on this issue." _ Carl Levin, U. S. Senator (D, MI) "When the tyrant has disposed of foreign en...

The Five Pillars of the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex


"Over-grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." _ George Washington (1732-1799), 1st US President "[The] conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. ...In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of u...

La malédiction de l'Islam radical comme religion


« Les musulmans doivent éduquer leurs enfants au Jihad. C'est le plus grand avantage de la situation : instruire les enfants au Jihad et à la haine des juifs, des chrétiens, et des infidèles ; éduquer les enfants au Jihad et à la renaissance des braises du Jihad dans leurs âmes. C'est ce qui est nécessaire maintenant » _ Cheikh Mohamed Saleh Al Munajjid, un imam d'Arabie Saoudite « L'Islam fait qu...

The Role of Religion in Political Affairs


"I base a lot of my foreign policy decisions on some things that I think are true. One. I believe there's an Almighty. And, secondly, I believe one of the great gifts of the Almighty is the desire in everybody's soul, regardless of what you like or where you live, to be free." _ George W. Bush, April 24, 2006 "I am pro-Israeli, not because of political expediency, but because I believe Israel is the fulfilm...

For a Productive New Approach in the Middle East


"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner." _ James Bovard, 1994 "In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of." _ Confucius (551-479 BC) "Democracy [is] when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers." _ Aristotle (384-322 BC) ---- Can you hav...

The myth of Manifest Destiny, Take Two


“In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor--the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the right of others.” _ President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US president, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933 "Politically speaking, tribal nationalism always insists that its own people is surrounded by "a world of enemies", "one agains...

Bush, the Religious Right and End Times


Suivi de la traduction française : Bush, la droite religieuse et la fin des temps

AIPAC, the Religious Right and American Foreign Policy


Suivi de la traduction française : AIPAC, droite religieuse et politique étrangère usaméricaine

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