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[fortdixlover]

Dear Cyber Hooligans (Sparky and Comrades):

I have made the observation that you disagree with most of the posts on this board that opin that Kerry should not be president.

Kerry stated in the 1970's that the U.S. military was a group of war criminals.

Either you believe that...in which case your presence on this board dishonors the fine military and ex-military people here, and is basically harrassment.

Or you don't believe that the U.S. military was a band of war criminals in Vietnam, in which case Kerry's statements amounted to "The Big Lie" (a lie so monstrous that people believe it much more easily than smaller lies. Adolf Hitler and/or Josef Goebbels used this principle to great advantage as Minister of Propaganda for Nazi Germany - see

[url]http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Big Lie[/url]

(note to sysop: the [url] directive does not seem to work correctly if the URL contains a space)

So which is it? And, if you do not believe that Vietnam Vets are war criminals as Kerry stated, then how did Kerry's post-Vietnam statements on this issue differ from Hitler's and Goebbel's "Big Lies" on topics such as Jews, Roosevelt, and Churchill?

[fortdixlover]

Actually, the psychology of the "Big Lie" is so helpful in understanding perhaps why the VVAW used the tactics it did, that I am posting it here.


Hitler writes in Mein Kampf:

... All this was inspired by the principle - which is quite true in itself - that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest purposes.

NOTE: Please, hooligans, spare us the attribution of the above characteristics to GWB. Try some better spin this time. C'mon...you can do it if you try!

[mikest]

[fortdixlover]

[sparky]