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March 14, 2008 at 13:33:02

German Buys 3 Pages of NY Times to Explain War to Americans

by David Swanson Page 1 of 1 page(s)

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Jürgen Todenhöfer says on his website that he has drafted 10 theses to be printed in 3 parts. The first 2 parts, containing the first 5 theses, were printed on two full pages of today's New York Times, pages 6 and 7, and in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Al-Quds Al-Arabi. The third part is to be printed on Sunday. These hugely expensive ads refer readers to this website: www.why-do-you-kill-zaid.com

Todenhofer describes himself in the ad as:

Dr. Jürgen Todenhöfer (67) has been an executive at a major European media group for over 20 years. Before that he was a member of the German parliament for 18 years and spokesman for the CDU/CSU on development and arms control. He has written two bestseller about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. With the proceeds he established a children‘s home in Afghanistan and is building a children‘s clinic in Congo. With the royalties from Why Do You Kill, Zaid? Todenhöfer will finance medical aid for heavily injured Iraqi refugee children (IOM) and an Israeli-Palestinian reconciliationproject in the Middle East (MEET).

Todenhofer, according to Wikipedia,

"studied law at the universities of Munich, Paris, Bonn and Freiburg. He became a member of German political party Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1970 and was a member of the German parliament from December 13, 1972 to December 20, 1990 (five election periods). He also acted as party spokesman for development policy. In 1980 he visited soviet occupied Afghanistan and started to raise money for the country. Todenhöfer is one of the most prominent German critics of the US-led wars against Afghanistan and Iraq starting in the years 2001 and 2003, respectively. He is member of the exectuive board at German media comapany Hubert Burda Media."

The first five theses are:

The West is much more violent than the Muslim world. Millions of Arab civilians have been killed since colonialism began.

Faced with the warmongering of the West, it is really not surprising that support for Muslim extremists continues to grow.

Terrorists in Islamic disguise are murderers. The same holds true for the ringleaders disguised as Christians who wage wars of aggression in contravention of international law.

Muslims were and are at least as tolerant as Jews and Christians. They have made a major contribution to Western civilization.

Love of God and love of one‘s neighbor are the central commandments not only in the Bible but also in the Qur‘an.

Here is part 1: PDF.

Here is part 2: PDF.

http://www.davidswanson.org

DAVID SWANSON is a co-founder of After Downing Street, a writer and activist, and the Washington Director of Democrats.com. He is a board member of Progressive Democrats of America, and serves on the Executive Council of the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, TNG-CWA. He has worked as a newspaper reporter and as a communications director, with jobs including Press Secretary for Dennis Kucinich's 2004 presidential campaign, Media Coordinator for the International Labor Communications Association, and three years as Communications Coordinator for ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Swanson obtained a Master's degree in philosophy from the University of Virginia in 1997.

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Amanda Lang, PhD (Virginia Tech 3M Doctoral Fellow '93) is a managing editor at OpEdNews and has been working with Rob Kall on the site since 2004. A retired ethnographer, she now restores old boats with her husband, Tom, a retired electrical engineer. Amanda proudly shares a historical legacy of a small section of the Kentucky-side of the Ohio River along the 9AA with Roy Rogers, the Clooney's - Nick, Rosemary, and George - and Larry Flint. She is a honorably discharged veteran of the US Army...

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Amanda LangAmanda Lang, PhD (Virginia Tech 3M Doctoral Fellow '93) is a managing editor at OpEdNews and has been working with Rob Kall on the site since 2004. A retired ethnographer, she now restores old boats with her husband, Tom, a retired electrical engineer. Amanda proudly shares a historical legacy of a small section of the Kentucky-side of the Ohio River along the 9AA with Roy Rogers, the Clooney's - Nick, Rosemary, and George - and Larry Flint. She is a honorably discharged veteran of the US Army...

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Excellent Post

Thanks again, David.

Reminds me of a Julia Sugarbaker quote:

In general it has been the men who have done the raping and the robbing and the killing and the war-mongering for the last two thousand years, ...and it's been the men who have done the pillaging and the beheading and the subjugating of whole races into slavery. It has been the men who have done the law making and the money making and the most of the mischief making! So if the world isn't quite what you had in mind you have only yourselves to thank!!

Regardless of religion or lack thereof, man has not deviated from his deviations.

by Amanda Lang (22 articles, 12549 quicklinks, 410 diaries, 424 comments) on Friday, March 14, 2008 at 3:54:06 PM

Peace Studies Degree from Bradford UK before it became just one more arm of the UK Government's Department For International Developments contractor.
sliphochPeace Studies Degree from Bradford UK before it became just one more arm of the UK Government's Department For International Developments contractor.

German Buys 3 pages

Amanda, in the UK we had 'the blessed Margaret' as Prime Minister 1979-1990. In 60AD we had Boudicea. Both were wimmin, both were responsible for many thousands of deaths.

'The blessed Margaret and Ronnie Raygun also kniefed Mikhail Gorbachev in the back, leading to the state of the planet today.

Must admit I do agree, in general, with you and Julia about what my sex has done and apologise if I have caused you any offence.

by sliphoch (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 9 comments) on Friday, March 14, 2008 at 10:36:28 PM

An old man wanting to see some thing good happen before I go.
Mr MAn old man wanting to see some thing good happen before I go.

America's attention span isn't that long ...

Too bad most Americans won't read it, and if they did most of them wouldn't believe it or understand it. To most we're still the good guys. We're not the murdering, raping, plundering, sociopaths we are. We're John Wayne, Rambo, the kick-ass, take no names guys who have to show the rest of the world just how right we are and wrong they are.

You really think people want to be told how wrong they are? Hell, we can't even talk about holding anyone accountable for even the most egregious of crimes. Last I saw some 40% still think we should stay in Iraq till the jobs done. What "job" that is, is never defined, but 40% say we should stay for it anyway.

It's over folks. With the economy is going down faster than a DC hooker they won't be looking to stop any wars, they'll be looking to start more and one of them will be fought right here on our streets. The beginning of the end is upon us. Once the full effect of the collapse of the economy takes hold we'll be looking at a rapid acceleration of Draconian measures, many that are already in place. We don't even need a shock & awe catalyst, but something like Obama being assassinated, a "false flag" attack, or any other disaster is something that would increase the chaos needed to further cower the people. But the collapsed economy might be enough. This stupid populace will look to the same criminals that got them into this situation to get them out of it. And there is no "getting out".

And I don't want to hear the "it can't happen here" crap. Spend one day listening to call-ins to C-SPAN and it will cure any doubt that this nation of fools could fall without any outside help. There are plenty of people that would willing join in destruction of this country thinking what they're doing is actually saving it. I live in New Orleans, I saw it happen here first hand, and believe me it wasn't that hard to turn this city into an occupied camp. Half the people brought into morgues were shot through the head with military weapons. It didn't seem to bother those in uniform that they were firing on Americans one bit. Once the food riots hit and the soldiers are told they'll be feed as long as they hold the order you can wave the Constitution all you want, it won't save you.

Not only will this article have no effect I predict we would have already attacked Iran by this time next year. We're a doomed nation and we're about to find out what "pay-back is a bitch" really means.

by Mr M (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 879 comments) on Saturday, March 15, 2008 at 6:45:13 PM

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