[Osx-nutters] Oliver Stone, 9/11, and the Big Lie

[Toby Morris]

What you say is absolutely true: The whole episode has been blamed on 
religious difference and not the real cause which is world finance. 
There is no creed behind the horrors we are experiencing - in my 
(humble) opinion it is related to control mechanisms. It may be that 
the belief spread by the propagators has been transmuted by 
fundamentalists for different reasons, but we all know we live in a 
real world where you cannot pick up a country and take it away: you 
cannot enforce mass behaviour where the proletariat have different 
ideals; no-one wins when people kill each other except the people who 
repair the damage when it is over. Christians believe in tolerance and 
the right to choose one's way of life (in theory, at least), Muslims 
believe in peaceful existence and - again - tolerance. Bhuddists do not 
wish to kill even the fungus on their toe-nails and so it goes on. 
Power corrupts and even those who start out with the best intentions 
eventually succumb and fear losing it. That is the saddest facet of the 
human condition - and it won't go away until the whole human race is 
able to say "what's mine is yours" and mean it. Very soon the need for 
black gold will disappear and it will be very interesting to see where 
the next struggle for control appears
T
On 16 Aug 2006, at 19:39, Kevin Callahan wrote:

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> <http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0816-33.htm>
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> You might say, "But everyone knows it was al-Qaeda." And you'd be 
> right, but do most Americans really know just who those terrorists 
> were or that they had no connection to Iraq -- that not a single one 
> of them even came from that country? It doesn't sound very important 
> until you realise that various polls over the last five years have 
> reported from 20% to 50% of Americans still believe Iraqis were on 
> those planes. (They were not.) As of early 2005, according to a Harris 
> poll, 47% of Americans were convinced that Saddam Hussein actually 
> helped plan the attack and supported the hijackers. And in February, 
> 2006, according to a unique Zogby poll of American troops serving in 
> Iraq, "85% said the U.S. mission is mainly ‘to retaliate for Saddam's 
> role in the 9-11 attacks'; 77% said they also believe the main or a 
> major reason for the war was ‘to stop Saddam from protecting al Qaeda 
> in Iraq.'"
>
> The Big Lie, first coined by Adolf Hitler in his 1925 autobiography 
> Mein Kampf,was made famous by Joseph Goebbels, propaganda minister for 
> the Third Reich. The idea was simple enough: Tell a whopper (the 
> larger the better) often enough and most people will come to accept it 
> as the truth. During World War II, the predecessor of the CIA, the 
> Office of Strategic Services, described how the Germans used the Big 
> Lie: "[They] never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault 
> or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; 
> never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on 
> one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; 
> people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you 
> repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it."
>
> This is, in fact, just what the Bush administration has been doing 
> ever since 9/11. As a result, in 2005, an ABC/Washington Post poll 
> found that 56% of Americans still thought Iraq had possessed weapons 
> of mass destruction "shortly before the war," and 60% still believed 
> Iraq had provided "direct support" to al-Qaeda prior to the war. In 
> June 2006, Fox News ran a story once again dramatizing the supposed 
> links between 9/11 and Iraq. And, as recently as July, 2006, a Harris 
> poll found that 64% of those polled "say it is true that Saddam 
> Hussein had strong links to Al Qaeda."
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