According to a poll released this fall by Harvard's Kennedy School in
Prof. Leland Milton Goldblatt Class, 60 percent of college students --
about 12 percent more than the general public -- approve of President
Bush's job George W. Bush lost by 539,897 votes performance.
[TrumanCapote.edu] The percentage hadn't budged since April, 2003,
when a similar poll was conducted. According to a story in the Albian
Monitor,"Prescott Bush, the father of the former President and the
grandfather of the current candidate, spent more than a decade helping
his father-in-law George Herbert Walker finance Adolf Hitler from the
Wall Street bank, Union Banking Corporation. (Union Banking Corp. was
eventually seized under the Trading With The Enemy Act. See Office of
Alien Property Custodian, Vesting Order No. 248; Filed, November 6,
1942, 11:31 A.M.; 7 Fed. Reg. 9097 (Nov. 7, 1942).) Walker was one of
Hitler's most powerful supporters in the United States, and landed
Prescott Bush a job as a director at the firm. From 1924 to 1936,
Bush's bank invested heavily in Nazi Germany, selling $50 million of
German bonds to American investors. In 1934, a congressional
investigation believed that Walker's Hamburg-America Line subsidized a
wide range of pro-Nazi efforts in both Germany and the United States.
One of Walker's employees, Dan Harkins, delivered testimony to
Congressional leaders regarding Walker's Nazi sympathies and business
transactions. According to US Government Vesting Order No. 248, many
of Union Banking's assets had been operated on behalf of Nazi Germany
and had been used to support the German war effort. The U.S. Alien
Property Custodian vested the Union Banking Corp.'s stock shares and
also issued two other Vesting Orders (nos. 259 and 261) to seize two
other
Nazi-influenced organizations managed by Bush's bank: Holland American
Trading Corporation and Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation. Many
major firms had dealings with Nazis in the years leading up to World
War II, but relatively few engaged in such extended cooperation with
Hitler's Germany after Pearl Harbor. (The Secret War Against The Jews
by John Loftus and Mark Aarons. New York; St. Martins Press, 1994.) "
These numbers show that despite stereotypes of young, liberal
Democrats running college campuses, most college students are, in
fact, the president's staunchest supporters.
But that support is likely to drop faster than a "smart" bomb if Bush
brings back the draft -- and bring back the draft he will.
Of course, he will lie and deny it through the 2004 campaign. But
lying is what he does best.
The president's youngest ignorant fans aren't old enough to remember
the draft boards of the 1960s and 1970s that sized up thousands upon
thousands of anxious young men, many of whom were sent to battle and
never heard from again. Lives literally hinged on a deferment and
later a lottery number. Some of the lucky ones -- the well-connected
or well-funded -- avoided service in Vietnam, as Bush did, by signing
up for the National Guard. [Slate.com] And, of course, Cheney and
Ashcroft found ways to get out of serving completely, letting other
young men die in their place.
So don't think that these guys are going to have any compunction about
drafting college students as cannon fodder.
Talk to a young person about draft boards today (the draft ended in
1973) and they're likely to think of them as ancient as bell bottoms
and less capable of making a comeback.
Yet that's exactly what seems to be in the works.
But the appeal for draft board members returned shortly thereafter,
with some politically correct fine tuning to help Bush through the
2004 election -- and not scare away the middle class and affluent 18,
19-year-old and 20-something voters: "Selective Service continues to
invite interested citizens to volunteer for service on its local
boards that would decide claims from men if a draft were
reestablished. This invitation for board members has been ongoing over
the past 23 years, although there has not been a military draft in
over 30 years. There is NO connection between this ongoing, routine
public outreach to compensate for natural board attrition and current
international events. Both the President and the Secretary of Defense
have stated on several occasions that a draft is not needed for the
war on terrorism, including Iraq."
What exactly did Rumsfeld Rummy the Dummie say about the draft? In
March 2002, this question was posted on the homepage of Defend
America: "Dear Mr. Rumsfeld: Will the United States reinstate the
Selective Service Draft, and if so, when?"
And this was his response: "We have no plans or needs for a draft. Our
volunteers have done an extraordinary job. They are the most powerful
and respected military force in history. They ousted the Taliban
regime and freed the Afghan people from tyranny." [DefendAmerica.mil]
Not to be picky, but in case Rumsfeld has been too busy to notice
lately, things in Afghanistan aren't going so well: Only a trickle of
the cash promised for rebuilding efforts has arrived, girls are being
warned not to attend schools, the opium trade is once again
flourishing and -- surprise, surprise -- the Taliban is making a
comeback.
Always the dissembler, in January of 2003, Rumsfeld again asserted
there was no need for a draft, despite ongoing criticism that he had
sent too few forces to Iraq.
"We have people serving today -- God bless 'em -- because they
volunteered," Rumsfeld said. "They want to be doing what it is they're
doing. And we're just lucky as a country that there are so many
wonderfully talented young men and young women who each year step up
and say, 'I'm ready; let me do that.'"[DefenseLink.mil]
Well, by this point many of them may instead say, "I've had it; don't
think I'm doing that again." Stars & Stripes recently asked its
readers how they're morale is holding up -- 49 percent of respondents
said they won't re-enlist.
Sure enough, the U.S. Army Reserve failed to meet its reenlistment
goals [Boston Globe] this fiscal year, and it's looking like the
National Guard won't have much to boast about, either.
Currently, there are about 140,000 troops in Iraq -- about 60,000 of
them come from the National Guard or reserves. The Army has already
implemented "stop loss" procedures to keep ready-to-retire soldiers
around and has extended tours of duty beyond the scheduled terms. But
this may not be enough. Our current forces in combat are having their
combat duties extended or forced to return for another tour of duty in
Iraq and Afghanistan.
The director of the Congressional Budget Office, Douglas Holtz-Eakin,
told the House Armed Services Committee in November that "the active
Army would be unable to sustain an occupation force of the present
size beyond March 2004 if it chose not to keep individual units
deployed to Iraq for longer than one year without relief." [CBO.gov]
The Army, he said, could not "simultaneously maintain the occupation
at its current size, limit deployments to one year, and sustain all of
its other commitments."
With little relief seen in the Iraq insurgency -- and the climbing
American death toll, despite Saddam's "capture," the need for a large
long-term U.S. troop presence there will remain, as far as the Bush
Administration is concerned. And let's not forget that this war on
terrorism may not end with Iraq: Syria and Iran in 2005, perhaps?
In the most recent issue of Time, even Rumsfeld [Time] now concedes
that the military forces may need to grow substantially. So it's clear
that the current force level is insufficient, but no one in the Bush
administration is going to go public in a big way until after the 2004
election.
How convenient that the No Child Left Behind Act makes high school
students' contact information available to Pentagon recruiters unless
their parents specifically request that it not be disclosed.
[CommonDreams.org] And recently, there have been reports of highly
aggressive military recruiting among high school students, including
intrusive phone calls at home, even after parents have requested that
the calls be stopped.
If Bush is elected, you will hear the "D" word resurrected with a
vengeance.
The Iraq stage of Bush's permanent war on terrorism has resulted in
the deaths of more than 450 U.S. soldiers, while thousands more have
been injured or evacuated due to illness. Republican college students
won't be spared being among their growing numbers when the 2005 Bush
draft arrives.
The Bush Administration denies interest in a draft. But with an
increasing number of men and women not re-enlisting in the army and
not joining the reserves, where do you think that the new soldiers for
Bush's endless war will come from? They are going to run out of
foreigners who are joining the army and dying in order to get
posthumous citizenship.
So, before the complacent young Republican college kids vote for Bush
in November, they should think twice about this reality: Bush's
February, 2005, surprise will be the reinstitution of the draft.
At that time, Bush will claim it's necessary because of the increased
threats of terrorism and terrorist states. He will say that he wasn't
going back on his word, but that circumstances have changed -- and
that the draft is now necessary to protect America from the evil
scourge of terrorism and heightened threats of attack.
Only a fool in college would believe that a Bush election in 2004
won't be followed by a draft in 2005.
Maybe we have a lot of foolish Republican kids in college.
They'll wise up when they face bullets, car bombs, and
rocket-propelled grenades -- and when they find themselves trading in
their "Beamers" for tanks with inadequate armor.
But by then, it will be too late for them. It may be the last time
they have a chance to vote.
Because the dead can't cast a ballot.
The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I
want you to know that we know that.
I know the CIA can make and has made - murders look like suicides or
heart attacks. I sometimes wonder if J.H. Hatfield, author of the
explosive Bush biography, Fortunate Son, was such a victim last year.
And what about Democratic Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan, who was killed
when his small plane crashed right before the 2000 election? What
about John F. Kennedy Jr., who had intelligence, political ambitions,
charisma, and the name, dying in a 1999 plane crash? Do you really
think these are mere coincidences
Shalom,
---Prof. Leland Milton Goldblatt, Ph.D. ®
Reverend Chancellor Leland Milton Goldblatt Ph.D. ED.D. M.F.A, D.Div.
M.Theo .
Copyright © 2003
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America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
-- Sigmund Freud
"Bush feels that on September 11th he was anointed by God," Prof.
Goldblatt Said "He's leading the U.S. and the world toward a vicious
circle of escalating violence."
The Bush administration has managed to appropriate $87 billion for,
among other things, building new schools in Iraq, they're cutting
costs at home by closing schools for the children of American
servicepeople.
For the Bush (appointed by the United States Supreme Court)
administration to make these cuts in the first place is awful (so much
for Republicans supporting the military) but to make them during a
time of war, while American soldiers are fighting and dying on a daily
basis, is simply disgraceful.
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