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Re: <nettime> Fascism in the USA?
"porculus" <porculus@wanadoo.fr>
Newmedia@aol.com
Louise Desrenards <louise.desrenards@free.fr>
"R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
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From: "porculus" <porculus@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: Re: <nettime> Fascism in the USA?
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 15:46:19 +0200
> My opinion is that if Bush is reelected, the US will have
> become, without any more doubt, a predominantly fascist society
have you ever heard of hitler, mussolini, or ztaline, reelection?
i would say americanz in general dont give a damned fuck zaddam had or not
mass destruction woepony & wolfowitz understand clearly that & it was just
some autosuggestion for zen preparation as in some vandam moviez.. It's an
old thing, 'democratie' choose specialy well its cretinz when needed, in
frankreich we do as well, beside notice bush az cretinz has said he nearly
understand the reasons of the ours. allo allo houston, you know what, we
have no problem
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From: Newmedia@aol.com
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 08:33:48 EDT
Subject: Re: <nettime> Fascism in the USA?
Brian:
> My opinion is that if Bush is reelected, the US
> will have become, without any more doubt, a
> predominantly fascist society.
Don't you mean METHODIST??
Fascism is an early 20th century term which makes no sense without its
ideological twin/counterpart -- Bolshevism.
Are you sure that BOTH "fascism" and "bolshevism" didn't DISAPPEAR as
effective hsitoric forces a long time ago??
Fascism is the name for a particular political-economic system/movement and
certainly does *not* mean "repression" or even "authoritarian" in some
generallized sense. You should read Bert Gross' "Friendly Fascism" for a
thorough account of how "fascism" is perfectly consistent with Frankfurt
School "anti-authoritarianism."
As things currently stand, Bush WILL be re-elected in 2004 -- which will only
prove that the DEMOCRATS are largely bankrupt/dis-credited/out-of-favor as an
opposition party. The principle reason for this failure on the part of the
Democrats is that they are still nostalgic for the 1930's and the New Deal era,
whereas the Republicans have "re-invented" themselves as a post-Cold-War
(i.e. 21st century) political party.
You seem to be committing the same mistake -- nostalgia for a time (and a
preferred "enemy") that is LONG gone. If you persist in this THROWBACK mentally
(i.e. your own "conservatism"), then you will also LOSE in all your campaigns
. . . inevitably.
FASCISM *and* BOLSHEVISM are EUROPEAN ideologies and to imagine that either
of them have *ever* been popular or politically effective in the USA is
foolish, ignorant and worst of all -- A-HISTORIC!!
George W. Bush is a "born-again" Methodist (thanks to his wife Laura) -- not,
by any stretch of the term, a "fascist" -- and, if you wish to understand the
present role of the USA in world history, you will have to investigate and
understand what his "beliefs" actually mean.
Best,
Mark Stahlman
New York City
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Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 15:02:05 +0200
Subject: FW: <nettime> Fascism in the USA?
From: Louise Desrenards <louise.desrenards@free.fr>
Any message like Brian Holmes' one sounds radically critical front of other
one since any months... Thanks Brian. But I'm afraid that your calling to
answer could stay without effect online.
For instance: Who could deny on any freedom cultural ‹ but materialistic ‹
realities actually lost in USA? How many transatlantic friends are
preventively light in their personal mails today front of new structure of
the repression growing up every day?
>From St Petersburg to Evian G8 President Bush was spoken yesterday on his
friendship with French government at last, saying something like:
"No punishment but only deception. In every case French are friends and
we stay to have any point of view to work together, on Africa for example...
France have an interest on Africa, doesn't? So we have too. Why we could not
work together on the question of AID in Africa? Could be a good way...?"
Laughing (remember just on the ONU decision against the war)!
1. Who could not remember of the American interdiction exigency in World
organizations, on inaccessibility of certain medical substances to African
people? That one of the good therapy in AID exactly...
Anything can change of course.
2. Obviously we are sure that AID could be the true cause from American
State and lobbies to Africa: a new frontier to conquest about a lot of
resources...
(again) New Frontier...
3. Fortunately, to get on working or trading the people you need them in a
better health (alive at least ;-)
Have a good day and thanX to the Great Texans and French Hawks who could
read a Frenglish mail ;-)
Happy Revolution on Thought and Practices.
Louise D.
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Quelque chose qui soit bien plus qu'un simple « portail », mais bien un
canal commun de diffusion multilingue et multimédia de l'information via
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De : Brian Holmes <brian.holmes@wanadoo.fr>
Répondre à : Brian Holmes <brian.holmes@wanadoo.fr>
Date : Sat, 31 May 2003 00:49:03 +0200
À : nettime <nettime-l@bbs.thing.net>
Objet : <nettime> Fascism in the USA?
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Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 08:43:43 -0400
From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
Subject: Re: <nettime> Fascism in the USA?
At 12:49 AM +0200 5/31/03, Brian Holmes wrote:
>Wolfowitz's even more shocking declaration, in a recent Vanity Fair
>interview (quoted today in Le Monde)
Right. See below.
Cheers,
RAH
<http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=2757&R=77439D6>
What
Wolfowitz Really Said
>From the June 9, 2003 issue: The truth behind the Vanity Fair "scoop."
by William Kristol
06/09/2003, Volume 008, Issue 38
AS THIS MAGAZINE goes to press, a controversy swirls about the head of
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz. He is alleged to have "revealed,"
in an interview with writer Sam Tanenhaus for the Manhattan
celebrity/fashion glossy Vanity Fair, that the Bush administration's
asserted casus belli for war against Saddam Hussein--the dictator's
weapons-of-mass-destruction program--was little more than a propaganda
device, a piece of self-conscious and insincere political manipulation.
Lazy reporters have been following the lead of the press release Vanity
Fair publicists circulated about their "scoop." It begins as follows:
Contradicting the Bush administration, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul
Wolfowitz tells Vanity Fair that weapons of mass destruction had never been
the most compelling justification for invading Iraq.
As it happens, this is a not-quite-accurate description of a paragraph in
Tanenhaus's article, which itself bears reprinting for reasons that will
become obvious in a moment:
When we spoke in May, as U.S. inspectors were failing to find
weapons of mass destruction, Wolfowitz admitted that from the outset,
contrary to so many claims from the White House, Iraq's supposed cache of
WMD had never been the most important casus belli. It was simply one of
several reasons: "For bureaucratic reasons we settled on one issue, weapons
of mass destruction, because it was the one reason everyone could agree
on." Everyone meaning, presumably, Powell and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
"Almost unnoticed but huge," he said, is another reason: removing Saddam
will allow the U.S. to take its troops out of Saudi Arabia, where their
presence has been one of al-Qaeda's biggest grievances.
Let's be clear:
Though Paul Wolfowitz has friends and admirers at The Weekly Standard, we
would be surprised and more than a little distressed had he actually said
what he's supposed to have said in this instance.
For the last 12 years,
all specific and sometimes heated policy disagreements notwithstanding,
American presidents of both parties, joining a near-unanimous consensus of
the so-called "world community," have agreed that the Baath party regime's
persistent and never-fully-disclosed WMD program represented a grave threat
to international security. Al Gore, for example, in his much-hyped antiwar
speech last September, acknowledged that "Iraq's search for weapons of mass
destruction has proven impossible to completely deter and we should assume
that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power. We know he has
stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his
country." The notion that the Bush administration's prewar reiteration of
this view was a cynical ploy is crackpot.
For that matter, the notion
that the Bush administration really, really, in its heart of hearts, had
other, preferred reasons for taking out Saddam Hussein--particularly, that
it did so to justify removing its troops from Saudi Arabia--and that the
entire war was therefore a fraud . . . well, this idea, too, is crackpot.
What gives with this Vanity Fair interview, then?
What gives is that
Tanenhaus has mischaracterized Wolfowitz's remarks, that Vanity Fair's
publicists have mischaracterized Tanenhaus's mischaracterization, and that
Bush administration critics are now indulging in an orgy of righteous
indignation that is dishonest in triplicate.
Pentagon staffers were wise
enough to tape-record the Tanenhaus-Wolfowitz interview. Prior to
publication of the Vanity Fair piece, they made that transcript available
to its author. And they have since posted the transcript on the Defense
Department's website (www.defenselink.mil). Tanenhaus's assertion that
Wolfowitz "admitted" that "Iraq's WMD had never been the most important
casus belli" turns out to be, not to put too fine a point on it, false.
Here's the relevant section of the conversation:
TANENHAUS: Was that one
of the arguments that was raised early on by you and others that Iraq
actually does connect, not to connect the dots too much, but the
relationship between Saudi Arabia, our troops being there, and bin Laden's
rage about that, which he's built on so many years, also connects the World
Trade Center attacks, that there's a logic of motive or something like
that? Or does that read too much into--
WOLFOWITZ: No, I think it happens
to be correct. The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the
U.S. government bureaucracy we settled on the one issue that everyone could
agree on which was weapons of mass destruction as the core reason, but . .
. there have always been three fundamental concerns. One is weapons of mass
destruction, the second is support for terrorism, the third is the criminal
treatment of the Iraqi people. Actually I guess you could say there's a
fourth overriding one which is the connection between the first two. . . .
The third one by itself, as I think I said earlier, is a reason to help the
Iraqis but it's not a reason to put American kids' lives at risk, certainly
not on the scale we did it. That second issue about links to terrorism is
the one about which there's the most disagreement within the bureaucracy,
even though I think everyone agrees that we killed 100 or so of an al Qaeda
group in northern Iraq in this recent go-around, that we've arrested that
al Qaeda guy in Baghdad who was connected to this guy Zarqawi whom Powell
spoke about in his U.N. presentation.
In short, Wolfowitz made the
perfectly sensible observation that more than just WMD was of concern, but
that among several serious reasons for war, WMD was the issue about which
there was widest domestic (and international) agreement.
As for
Tanenhaus's suggestion that Wolfowitz somehow fessed up that the war had a
hidden, "unnoticed but huge" agenda--rationalizing a pre-planned troop
withdrawal from Saudi Arabia--we refer you, again, to the actual interview.
In an earlier section of the conversation, concerning the current, postwar
situation in the Middle East, Wolfowitz explained that the United States
needs to get post-Saddam Iraq "right," and that we also need "to get some
progress on the Israeli-Palestinian issue," which now looks more promising.
Then Wolfowitz said this:
There are a lot of things that are different
now, and one that has gone by almost unnoticed--but it's huge--is that by
complete mutual agreement between the U.S. and the Saudi government we can
now remove almost all of our forces from Saudi Arabia. Their presence there
over the last 12 years has been a source of enormous difficulty for a
friendly government. . . . I think just lifting that burden from the Saudis
is itself going to open the door to other positive things.
Tanenhaus has
taken a straightforward and conventional observation about strategic
arrangements in a post-Saddam Middle East and juiced it up into a vaguely
sinister "admission" about America's motives for going to war in the first
place.
The failure so far to discover "stocks" of WMD material in
post-Saddam Iraq raises legitimate questions about the quality of U.S. and
allied intelligence--though no one doubts that Saddam's regime had weapons
of mass destruction, used weapons of mass destruction, and had an ongoing
program to develop more such weapons. Furthermore, people of good will are
entitled to disagree, even in retrospect, about the wisdom and probable
effects of Saddam's forcible removal. But distorting an on-the-record
interview with a Bush administration official in order to create a
quasi-conspiratorial narrative of deceit and deception at the highest
levels of the U.S. government is a disgrace.
--William Kristol
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