Today’s Topic: More of the Same, Pt 2
My last couple of blogs have been in line with defining not only what has gone before from a historic viewpoint, but to illuminate those wishing to use their gray matter to foresee what just might be coming down the road.
But after hearing Seymour Hersh’s new revelations of administration misconduct and reading William Rivers Pitt’s new column for Truthout, dated 28 Feb 2007, "The Bush Administration in One Sentence", I’d have to agree with the opening line quoted from Henry Ford, which was "History is bunk."
One should easily be able to see the direct connection between history being bunk and an oft quoted senior Bush administration official’s statement that "we make the realities, and by the time you think you’ve figured them out, we make new realities."
Now it isn’t all that surprising that Henry Ford and George W. Bush think that history is a tale to be ignored, because there is a direct link from Henry Ford to George W. Bush in history and it is both Henry Ford’s and Prescott Bush’s support for the Nazi regime during 1933 and forward. George W. Bush’s father’s fortune is based on a number of his own earnings, but the underpinnings of such earnings have been nefarious since Adolph Hitler took control of Germany and include making money off of slave labor provided by the Nazis from the Jews incarcerated in concentration camps, either to work or die.
So how does Henry Ford work into the above? Henry Ford was an ardent Hitler supporter who had banking and investment interests in Prescott Bush’s bank (Harriman/Brown
Bros.). The same bank that was shut down by FDR during the early 40s for dealings with the enemy. And the same Brown family that is now a part of Kellogg, Brown and Root, or as they are now known, KBR, as large subsidiary of Halliburton.
However, it still appears that history isn’t all that important to today’s American, so we’ll forget the history thing and let Henry Ford win that round.
But if we, the American public, don’t learn the truth of the words "He who ignores the lessons of history is bound to repeat them," then what George Bush’s administration started and continues to do today is going to be just as much of a mystery.
The mystery is that this administration, from day one, has been trying to rewrite history as history itself is being written, and the problem with that effort is that the real history catches up with you, especially if you don’t really know the real history.
The consequences are that one’s credibility becomes suspect and if the public takes a good look at what is being said today by both the administration and the few Congressional lackeys they have remaining, one can see that this administration has absolutely no sense of history at all. And this is their downfall and their election our bane.
For if we can’t see the lies used by this administration’s efforts to create an imperial America, then one won’t realize that historic imperialistic endeavors have evolved from very basic subterfuge and lies.
A good example was pointed out by Keith Olbermann of MSNBC in his Monday tirade about MS and PH.D Condi Rice, our illustrious Secretary of State, having so grossly misstated history in 42 words as to possibly being the loser in a debate with fifth graders, (my misrepresentation of his far longer diatribe).
And I concur. There was also the funny idea of Davy Crockett getting a Blackberry message at the Alamo, but how wrong can an elected representative be? Wrong both in reciting history and in misapplication of analogies, for why would Congress talk to Davy Crockett when the Alamo was not an effort in a Mexican-American war authorized by Congress, but a smaller part of a Mexican Revolutionary War when American citizens colonized Texas and fought Mexico’s control of the area.
I guess the Republicans just think that whatever action happened anywhere with Americans involved had a Congressional Declaration of War and Presidential support. Again, I cannot conceive of how else Republicans could still be trying to change the focus of the debate by lying about history. I would really love to read the memo from the RNC that explains how stupid Americans are.
History is bunk. What an eye opening statement when taken in context with the Ford/Bush historical ties and the current administration’s efforts to rewrite history before they have actually accomplished anything.
History is written by the victors. Shouldn’t the Bush administration have at least won something before they start re-writing history?
And shouldn’t Americans be smart enough to recognize the lies?
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