Time to pit Dick Cheney - again.

[Sampiro]

The psychologist at Nuremberg recorded Hermann Göring as saying

Why, of course, the people don’t want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.

I’ve gotten to where I think of this whenever I see Cheney, and of the fact that Göring had the common decency to be in a prison cellwhen he said it.

[BrainGlutton]

Rachel Maddow does Dick! (Will wonders never cease!)

[Sampiro]

Eeek!

Somehow in the post above the dingo ate half the Göring quote (the most important half at that). It should have read (missing part highlighted):

Why, of course, the people don’t want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship. The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.