New Nazis

(9) Yale

Bush graduated from Yale at the height of the Vietnam War in 1968. In his autobiography, A Charge to Keep (Harper Collins, New York, 1999), he underlined that he and his friends avoided attending lectures by speakers, who came to New Haven to discuss the war in Vietnam. Apparently, Yale academia missed a golden opportunity to install the lucid notion into minds of undergraduates, that in order to form an opinion one has to acquire as many ingredients of information as possible. I learned this significant basic lesson early in life at the dinner table.

George was born at Yale, when his Dad was an undergraduate there. The elder Bush continues his vengeful crusade against Iraq through his obedient eldest son, who

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has promised his Dad to finish the job. When I was an undergraduate at Yale in the Class of 1950, as president of the Yale International Club, we invited as many outside speakers as were willing to come to Pierson College to share alternative argument and different points of view with us. I brought a number of ambassadors and diplomats from the United Nations to be our guests in New Haven, Connecticut. How else were we to gain insight into Political Science and International Relations? For the junior Bush even at Yale it was an easy way out by ignoring diverse opinions. Problems were easier to grasp when one has less options to choose from. Naturally, poor George is skipping Arafat altogether. He even wants him removed, because the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would be so much easier to handle without this pig-headed freedom fighter hanging on to power.

The mental handicap of the current US president was recently illustrated when, on August 1, 2002, King Abdullah of Jordan sat next to him in the Oval Office. The king's face expressed considerable dismay whilst listening to the claptrap of George II. Sharon had ordered an F-16 to kill Hamas freedom fighter Salah Shehada in Gaza City. The building where he lived was destroyed, members of his family and nine children and babies who als lived there were killed. Sharon immediately called these murders ‘a great success’. Understandably, a few days later Palestinian freedom fighters detonated a heavy bomb at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Seven dead and dozens wounded.

Bush, with the king, whose wife is a Palestinian, on his side declared, ‘I am just as angry as Israël is right now. I am furious that innocent lives were lost. However, through my fury, even though I am mad, I still believe peace is possible.’ Bush is not even aware, that when speaking to the media, he gives himself away by identifying himself completely with the Israëli side of the conflict. Bill Clinton, also educated at Yale, probably picked up later at Oxford, that you do not call yourself a mediator when you side 100 percent with one party in a conflict. There will be no peace in the Middle East until this Gang of Four is voted out of the office. One dreads to think of how much blood has got to flow first in the Arab world until the day that US voters will final send a man with non-chaotic brains to the White House.

In his mémoir, Bush wrote (p.p. 50) that the main concern for him and his buddies at Yale was whether or not to join the military and fight in Vietnam. George ended up by enlisting with the Texas Air National Guard and got training as a pilot. Had he bodily participated in the battle against communist guerrillas in Southeast Asia (who, of course, also were called terrorists) he would have viewed the film Born on the Fourth of July (in which Tom Cruise plays disabled Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic), as director Oliver Stone did. Stone also attended Yale, but he was man enough to serve in Vietnam and share

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with other young Americans the horrors of this mad war. Yet, the 43^rd president of the United States is losing little sleep over starting another war, which will result in the slaughter of foreigners and Americans alike. Junior Bush has no clue as to what he is up against. He has already decided at Yale that the less one knows about the real problems one is up against, the easier it is to decide. In 2002 this idiot is the most powerful man in the world.

Following the disaster of 09-11 Bush declared it to be the ultimate goal of his War on Terrorism to wipe out all terrorists in the world. Obviously, this is easier said than done. This president seems incapable of perceiving that his concept would literally mean taking on many millions of devoted Muslims. He is in for a rude awakening from this hallucinatory notion, that he is able by superior military means, alone, to eliminate the worldwide opposition to his Global Cop playing. He will probably meet his Waterloo in Baghdad, as Richard Nixon met his ultimate military defeat in Saigon. Some political observers expect that to enable the White House to carry out its devious plan against Iraq, another Al Queda type attack on America will be needed. This will be done to firmly mobilize national and international support for such an illegal and criminal act on the part of the most powerful democracy in the world.

It should be remembered, that in 1961 the Joint Chiefs of Staff under the chairmanship of general Lyman Lemnitzer, planned a secret operation under the code-name Operation Northwoods. James Bamford, in his book Body of Secrets, (Doubleday, New York, 2001 p.p. 82-83) named it ‘the most corrupt plan ever created by the US government’. It called for innocent people to be shot in American streets, boats carrying refugees fleeing from Cuba to be sunk, and a wave of violent terrorism to be launched in Washington, Miami and elsewhere. Ofcourse, all these interior terrorist acts courtesy of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Bamford explained: ‘People would be framed for bombings they did not commit. Planes would be hijacked. Using phoney evidence, all of it would be framed on Castro, thus giving Lemnitzer and his cabal the excuse, as well as the public and international backing, they needed to launch a war.’ On the basis of my 34 years as a foreign journalist operating form New York, I question whatever the Bush clique says about both 09-11 or the latest US conspiracy to eliminate Saddam. Remember how they intended to create an alibi to pre-empt Castro? But then, JFK was in the White House. He cancelled these insidious Pentagon plans. In doing so he made even more enemies who were ready to have him bumped off as having gone soft on Fidel. In reality, JFK intended to maintain international law and the Charter of the UN. He re-fused to approve vigilante initiatives in foreign policy. If a second Al Queda type disaster would hit America, possibly even arranged by Washington itself, the Gang of Four

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might easily gain massive support for a Hiroshima type of solution in Baghdad.

Bush's neo-Nazi megalomania leads him to believe that he will make the world safe for a Pax Americana. Adolf also believed at some point, that he could simultaneously fight the allies in the west and Stalin in the east. He was confronted with reality at Stalingrad. There, Hitler met his Waterloo. Bush awaits a similar disaster, unless his friend Tony Blair can make him see the light and soon.