George W. Bush: Corrupt or Stupid?
Hello, and welcome to this week's edition of American Dissident Voices, the Internet radio program of the National Alliance. I'm your host and Chairman of the Alliance, Erich Gliebe.
If you joined us last week, you might remember that we spent most of our time discussing an article by Orly Halpern that appeared in the Jewish Daily Forward, way back in January of this year, shortly after the execution by hanging of Saddam Hussein. That article discussed the fact that some of the top Jewish thinkers in Israel and elsewhere are coming to realize that the collapse of Saddam's regime in Iraq might not be quite as good for the Jews as everyone at first assumed it would be, mainly because -- without the strong hand of Saddam -- the Arabic Middle East has been thrown into a state of confusion and chaos that is potentially more dangerous to Israel than a united Iraq was under Saddam.
And so, even back in January, some Jews had noticed the disturbing trends that were appearing throughout all of the Arabic Middle East. Actually, many of the Jews who keep their fingers on the pulse of Middle Eastern affairs must have taken notice long before then, since Orly Halpern was able to track down a number of them in January to talk to about things they had thought long and hard about. Halpern quoted several of them in his article.
That was seven months ago. And so I think it's not unreasonable to assume that that viewpoint -- that a chaotic Iraq is bad for Israel -- has spread among more Jews than just the ones who spend pretty much their whole lives keeping track of everyone and everything related to the Middle East. I imagine that most Jews in the positions of power and influence in the American media and government now have at least a vague notion that the present turmoil in Iraq must be kept under control in order to safeguard Israel.
As a concluding statement in that broadcast last week, I suggested that perhaps the reason that nothing concrete had been done with regard to bringing the U.S. forces home from Iraq -- despite the desire of the overwhelmingly majority of American citizens for that to happen -- was that the advisors around George W. Bush have told him that he can't under any circumstances leave Iraq at this time. And the longer the war drags on, it seems more and more likely to me that Bush has been directed or maneuvered by the Jews around him that he's got to keep the American forces right where they are, in Iraq and in Afghanistan.
It has been put forth before on this American Dissident Voices program and elsewhere that George W. Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq and the destruction of Saddam Hussein in order to grind an enemy of Israel into the desert sand. But whether Bush was a conscious agent of that plan or whether he has been unknowingly manipulated is a question that is ripe for debate. In other words, is Bush corrupt, or is he stupid? I believe that question can be answered in one word: Yes.
Maybe Bush really did believe his advisors -- both Jewish and otherwise -- when they lied to him that Saddam had financed the 9/11 hijackers. Maybe he really did believe them when they lied to him about the weapons of mass destruction and the uranium stores from Africa. Maybe he really thought that he was doing the right thing in sending American soldiers into Iraq to take down a ruthless despot. Maybe no one ever mentioned to him -- and maybe it never occurred to him -- that Israel would be the immediate primary beneficiary of Saddam's demise, or so it seemed at the time.
Certainly, the clever Jews around Bush might not have wanted to share the whole story with the American Chief Executive, who has been ridiculed at every turn for his alleged lack of intelligence. They might not have wanted a man whom many consider to be of limited understanding to possess knowledge of such a critical nature, with the chance that he might spill all of the beans to the public at an unguarded moment. Can you imagine seeing Bush on CNN fielding questions at a press conference letting slip something to the effect that So-and-so told him that we needed to destroy Saddam to keep the Jewish homeland secure? There would be the uncomprehending Bush behind the podium, with blank stare and bemused countenance, blinking calmly at the few moments of appalled silence before him, and then all hell would break loose. THAT would be a sight!
But anyway, even if Bush is stupid -- that is, even if he was not aware of the Israel angle in his ordering the invasion of Iraq, either because he couldn't figure it out on his own or because nobody told him -- then it is equally true that he is also corrupt. An honest politician, no matter how stupid, upon realizing that all the data upon which he had based a major decision were flawed, would have owned up to his mistake immediately and in a big way. He would have apologized profusely to a public that had been duped and that had -- willingly, at first -- offered up its citizen-soldiers and its tax dollars in pursuit of a sham sold to them by the Chief Executive. He would have played Grim Reaper and fired all of those who had lied to him. He would have publicly chastised them for their deceit and treachery. Perhaps legal recourse could have been taken as well.
But nothing of the sort has taken place. No condemnations of Bush's underlings, no charges filed or prison sentences handed down, no beheadings. Not even a sincere apology to the American citizenry has emerged from the Oval Office, even after it has become common knowledge that all of the lies they bought into were, in fact, lies. All of this suggests that either Bush is REALLY stupid, so stupid that he can't remember all those lies he told about weapons of mass destruction -- and I don't believe he is that stupid -- OR that he isn't at all remorseful about what he has done to the American people and the American taxpayers, not to mention what he has done to hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and to what used to be their country. Those hundreds of thousands of Iraqis aren't around to give us their opinion of George W. Bush and the civil war that he is responsible for, but we can see well enough what has happened in their country and we know generally what they would say.
I wonder if President Bush ever regrets what he's done, even for a few moments and in the privacy of his own thoughts. I wonder if he ever wishes he could just "Control-Z" back far enough so that he could make a better decision with Iraq next time. Somehow, I doubt it; President Bush doesn't strike me as being much of a contemplative human being, even on his frequent jogging runs, which are supposed to be great opportunities for thinking, according to the testimony of many a long-distance runner.
"Control-Z." Those of you who are familiar with computers -- particularly Microsoft Office products -- know what "Control-Z" does. "Control-Z" means "undo." If you type something in and hit "Control-Z," the computer knows to undo it. If you move a picture within a document and hit "Control-Z," it moves it back to where it was before. It's the simplest thing, as simple as typing a capital letter, in which you have to hold down the "Shift" key before typing the letter. I'll bet some of you in my audience who work with computers for most of your working hours can hit "Control-Z" without even looking at the keyboard; your fingers just know where to go, you've done it so many times. And the best thing about "Control-Z" is that you can use it as many times as you want, and the computer will continue "undoing" every action you took, all the way back to what your file looked like the last time you saved it. Once you save, "Control-Z" can't take you back any farther.
"Control-Z" is a wonderful feature of computers. If you hit a key without knowing what you are doing and suddenly the file's font changes…"Control-Z." If you are mostly satisfied with the way something looks, but you want to see what will happen if you try these few more steps and then don't like the look…"Control-Z" as many times as needed to get back to the look you were happy with before. "Control-Z" essentially allows you to make a rough draft of everything on your Microsoft Office files. When you are satisfied with things, you take the great leap to save your file. Once you save, the only way to undo things is to go in manually -- the hard way -- and change things.
But as George W. Bush has discovered with Iraq, life doesn't allow "Control-Z." We can't simply undo what has been done. The only way to fix a mistake that's been made or to repair something that's broken is to do it the hard way. Once something has been said or done, it's over. It can't be cancelled. We must deal with the situation from that point on. There is no "Control-Z." The file of life is "saved" after every instant of time.
Courtroom lawyers know this truth only too well when, in trying a case before a jury, they deliberately make statements that they know will bring forth a sustainable objection from the opposing lawyer. The judge will order the statement to be stricken from the record, but the jury still heard it. It still made an impression on those whose job it is to determine innocence or guilt. If it was a powerful or emotion-inducing statement, it is quite possible that a statement that has been stricken from the record will still have an effect on the outcome of the case.
A few times, I've caught myself wanting to "Control-Z" something in real life. That is, I'd like to be able to "Control-Z" a decision I've made or something I've said to someone or some action I've taken. Maybe you've had similar thoughts. You made a bad choice at the last fork in the road; it would be nice to "Control-Z" back to the fork without any pain or consequences and go the other way.
But you can't "Control-Z" in real life, and neither can I or anyone else. If we're in the midst of a bad situation, we just have to try to fix it as best we can. If we get a flat tire out on the highway, someone has to change or repair the tire and then we can get going again. But changing a tire is not the same thing as hitting "Control-Z." To hit "Control-Z" would mean that suddenly the tire is whole again, and that isn't reality. Someone put time and effort and ingenuity into solving the problem that presented itself… in this case, changing the tire. It is simply impossible to go back in time to when that problem didn't exist. That's just the way the universe is put together, and we are subject to its laws, whether we like it or not.
Think of all of the historical examples that would benefit from our ability to "Control-Z," all of the times that our race strayed off the Path that is the most direct route to higher life for our people. From our vantage point early in the 21st Century, based on all we know about racial tendencies and the effects of racial mixing, it's very easy to look back throughout our people's past and point out where they went wrong and, in particular, what decisions SHOULD have been made so as to reap the maximum long-term benefits for the White race. This amounts to asking, "What if?" or stating "If only…" There are lots of "What ifs?" we could ask and a lot of "If onlys…" we could state, and it seems to me that "Control-Z" is really just the modern digital equivalent of "What if?" and "If only…"
We have known since the beginning of the human species that "What if?" and "If only…" are complete wastes of time, in the sense that nothing can completely undo what has already occurred. But that hasn't stopped probably every human in history from musing about such impossibilities, and it hasn't stopped a sizable fraction of White Americans today from getting bogged down in them. There are many White Americans today -- and, more generally, White people all over the world -- who are so caught up in thinking "If only…" that they find themselves paralyzed, unable to take effective action in an effort to remedy what they see as the problems of our people today. Some are so eager to learn about the history of our race's bad decisions down through the centuries that they make NO contribution at all to the salvation of White culture, White civilization, and the White gene pool, all of which require us to make GOOD decisions TODAY. They are so caught up in "Control-Z" thinking that they might as well just be nonracialist mainstreamers, for all the good they are doing to secure their grandchildren's future.
I mentioned earlier that we are subject to nature's laws, whether we like it or not. I suggest we learn to like it. In other words, instead of submitting to defeatism due to the impossibility of "Control-Z-ing" our way out of our present problems, we should embrace the more rewarding idea that WHAT WE DO MATTERS. When problems arise, there is no way out except to struggle through them, using every bit of knowledge, skill, creativity, and determination that have been given to us by our ancestors.
This fact -- that our fate rests in OUR hands and is therefore OUR responsibility, NOT the responsibility of some mythical anthropomorphic deity -- makes life the rewarding journey that it is meant to be. It means that everything we do in this life counts. We can't go back in time, and we can't erase anything that we've said or done. It's all "out there," and if we don't like a decision we've made in the past, the only thing we can do is try to live the rest of our lives in such a way that, by our deeds, we make a new and better imprint on the history of the universe from this moment on.
You know, even though we can't "Control-Z" anything in life, there IS something good that can result from a limited amount of "Control-Z" thinking. That good something is that, by thinking what we WOULD have done if we COULD "Control-Z," we LEARN. And by learning, we have a better chance of making the right decision the NEXT TIME that fork in the road appears.
The NEXT TIME we have the choice to allow or NOT allow Jews and other non-White races into our midst, we will have learned… and we won't allow them.
The NEXT TIME we have the choice about whether White men will fight or NOT fight other White men over superficial religious differences, we will have learned… and we won't fight each other.
In fact, it has been a certain amount of "Control-Z" thinking that led to the late Dr. William L. Pierce to formulate the ideology of the National Alliance, which is based on White racial separateness and White racial security and progress. I'd say that those ideals are some very positive outcomes of "Control-Z" thinking.
But that's where "Control-Z" has to stop. From that point on, we have to take action, to make decisions in our own lives that are going to get our race closer to its goals. It isn't an option to simply wish undone all of the negative things that our race has brought upon itself. It's time now to get moving. It's time now to get out of your comfort zone and start being part of the solution.
You know, we can't "Control-Z" back to before our troops went into Iraq, any more than the Jews can "Control-Z" back to a more stable Middle East with Saddam at the helm of Iraq. And we can't "Control-Z" back to when our racial situation wasn't so bad. But our racial situation as it exists today CAN be fixed, but we must understand that it can only be fixed the hard way.
And to fix it the hard way means that we Whites need to band together, to organize, and to work together and stick together as a group. It isn't enough to stand on the sidelines and observe what's happening. You need to be part of an active solution. Remember: nothing you do in life can be completely erased, so start making a positive contribution to your people's future.
I'm Erich Gliebe, and thanks for being with me today.
