Military Will March Front and Center at Inaugural Festivities

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON — As he leaves the Capitol after taking the oath of office Jan. 20, President Bush (news - web sites) is expected to exercise a familiar presidential prerogative — reviewing the troops.


Then the real embrace of the military begins.


Bush, who campaigned for reelection as a wartime president, will have more than the usual military flourishes at his second-term inaugural ceremonies.


With 138,000 U.S. troops serving in Iraq (news - web sites) and casualties reported nearly every day, the White House wanted to showcase the role of the armed services in the war against terrorism as well as in the nation's premier display of a peaceful transition of power.


Officials are tight-lipped about details, awaiting a briefing this week from the Presidential Inaugural Committee. But the military theme will thread through the 10 days of inaugural events that are normally highlighted by pomp and circumstance, a time when the nation's capital turns into a lavish backdrop for the revelry of the winning party.

more: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&ncid=716&e=29&u=/latimests/20041214/ts_latimes/militarywillmarchfrontandcenteratinauguralfestivities

[rfranklin]

1. Didn't we use to see this sort of thing on May 1 in the old...

Soviet Union? Everything that the right wingers warned us about is coming true...under the right wing.

[flordehinojos]

5. We did! and doesn't one of the Koreas still use this type of thing? They

do! And now Bush the @sshole does too!

[donheld]

67. Yes we did, Welcome to the UFSA

[bobthedrummer]

73. I did an independent study on US militarism 14 years ago.

It's fascism now.

[0007]

76. That's with a capital "F" now!

[farmbo]

2. Here's some hard-hitting investigative journalism at it s best!

The Whitehouse press release appears to have been run verbatim.

And this is Yahoo.

Wait'll you see your own morning paper.

[otohara]

88. MSM PA System Not Just For Bush

but corporations also. They just edit the press releases and vola...a news story is born.

I researched something on The Florida OJ Assoc. because they say "drinking FL OJ, helps rebuild Florida" - I called an asked to explain the TV commercial running. Turns out that drinking FL OJ helps the famailies of the FL OJ Association only.

The stories about the new OJ campaign was written in many papers, all saying verbatim the official press release.

He said I was the only person to call and ask this question.

[HeeBGBz]

3. Tanks and missles?

Rolling down the street in grand display.

That's kind of a Russia/China sort of thing.

[Stand and Fight]

54. WTF?

Where the hell did it say anything about tanks and missiles in that article?

:wtf:

[HeeBGBz]

59. It didn't. That's the image I saw in my head when I read that.

Sorry darlin, I was ruminating on my future.

[tngledwebb]

72. They'd use 'em though

if we had any left after Iraq.

[Palacsinta]

4. How about Leni Riefenstahl to film it?

nt

[saigon68]

7. Leni is Dead-- but I'm sure Ralph Reed

And Company have a new Leni to Create the CHIMP'S NEW MOVIE


"TRIUMPH OF THE TEXAS TOAST"


or something along those lines.

Does any one else see the FASCISM PARALLELS ????

[slor]

6. The new version...

of the Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler.

[bluestateguy]

8. I'll be at the video store on January 19th

and watching movies all day on the 20th.

This is just a big party to which I am obviously not invited, nor do I wish to be invited.

[Pachamama]

65. Same here...no propaganda from the MSM & White House that day...

Although secretly I keep hoping something blows the door wide open between now and then on election fraud and *'s party plans get changed...

One can always dream, eh? :hi:

[patricia92243]

9. The U>S> has always been proud that we DON"T flaunt our military powers as

most foreign countries do. We wanted to show that we are a peaceful nation - not aggressors. I guess things have changed. :(

[AnnInLa]

10. Also the presence of so much military will serve to

deter some of the more visible/vocal protests???

[WildClarySage]

17. Ding!!! Ding!!! Ding!!! Ding!!!!!

We have a winner! Tell her what she's won, Don!

[genieroze]

32. She's won a life sentence trip to Gitmo complete with pork chops.

Ding, ding, ding, ding.

[fob]

51. Of course the pork chops are raw and only used to incite the dogs!

[LizW]

23. Exactly. Using the military as a shield.

The news stories will be how the "dissidents" were disrespectful to the troops.

[Khephra]

11. Not quite springtime, but so very apt

Chorus:
Germany was having trouble,
What a sad, sad story!
Needed a new leader to restore its former glory!
Where oh where was he?
Where could that man be?
We looked around
And then we found
A man for you and me!

And now it’s…

Hitler:
Springtime for Hitler and Germany!
Deutschland is happy and gay!

Chorus:
We’re marching to a faster pace
Look out – here comes the master race!

Springtime for Hitler and Germany!

Hitler:
Winter for Poland and France!

Chorus:
Springtime for Hitler and Germany!
Now, Germans, go into your dance!

Rolf:
I was born in Düsseldorf and that is why they call me Rolf!

Mel Brooks:
Don’t be stupid, be a smarty –
Come and join the Nazi party!

(instrumental interlude)

Chorus:
Springtime for Hitler and Germany!
(gunshots)
Two-step’s the new step today!
(gunshots, explosions)
Bombs falling from the skies again!
(bomb falling, explosion)
Deutschland is on the rise again!

Springtime for Hitler and Germany!
U-boats are sailing once more!

Springtime for Hitler and Germany!

Means that...
Soon we’ll be goin’,
We’ve got to be goin’,
You know we’ll be goin’
To war!

[Selatius]

12. Sounds wonderful

Look familiar to anyone who lived back in 1939?

[saigon68]

15. MORE ADORING PHOTOS

Sudeten girls in traditional costume greet their Führer in Eger, as Henlein introduces Hitler from the podium

[knight_of_the_star]

63. That's what I was thinking of actually

Will they be goose-stepping?

[Pachamama]

66. 1st photo looks familiar - is that Prague castle?

Just wondering..looked familiar.... :hi:

[saigon68]

68. Yes it is

This was part of Peace in our time.

[Pachamama]

75. I recognized the statues at the gate...very violent....

But the castle and city are beautiful and thankfully still standing....

[noamnety]

13. "I want to be the peace president"

Shouldn't he have the Peace Corps out there marching instead of the military?

[UL_Approved]

14. This is the beginning, folks

Enjoy having a display of armor similar to the parades on the Kremlin. Look forward to having a tight military rule. Look forward to all the abuses that we have seen in the past from dictatorships.

As for myself, the resistance starts today. Get connected with encryption software, get into good communication with people you know are on the level. The time is upon us, boys and girls.

Ancient Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting times"

[jmcgowanjm]

38. The White Rose Society-US Edition

From a friend in the Pentagon
This Coronation will be the most surreal thing the US
has ever witnessed.

August 23, 2001: According to German newspapers,
the
Mossad gave the CIA a list of 19 terrorists living in the
US
and said that it appeared that they were planning to carry
out
an attack in the near future. It is unknown if these are
the
same exact 19 names as the actual hijackers or if the
number
is a coincidence. However, at least four names did refer
to
actual 9/11 hijackers: Nawaf Alhazmi, Khalid Almihdhar,
Marwan Alshehhi, and Mohamed Atta. Die Zeit, 10/1/02,
Der Spiegel, 10/1/02, BBC, 10/2/02, Haaretz, 10/3/02

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

16. La plus ça change...

[saigon68]

18. A STUNNING PHOTO

Note the adoring faces

[Massachusetts]

20. WILL

bu$hco be this blatant? I've gotta keep hitting my head against the wall....the pain lets me know I'm alive and this isn't a dream.....:wtf:

[Flagg]

19. We do the same thing in France every July 14

[saigon68]

22. The Germans did it in the bad old days

http://www.holocaustchronicle.org/HolocaustScans/HiRes/1940/19400008000027

Celebrating their victory in France, German troops march down the Champs-Élysées through the Arc de Triomphe. The armistice signed in June divided France into two areas. One part was occupied by the Germans and placed under military control, while the other was indirectly controlled by the Germans through the government of Marshal Pétain. The latter was headquartered in Vichy in the south of France. Half of the roughly 350,000 Jews in France lived in Paris and were immediately threatened by the Nazis' occupation. The Vichy government, too, moved to segregate Jews from French society, promulgating the Statut des Juifs (Jewish Law), which conformed to the German Nuremberg Laws.
Photo: Wide World Photo / United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archive

[Stand and Fight]

55. Sigh...

Bastille Day is a lawful and understandable celebration for such military pomp and circumstance. The inauguration of a president in the U.S. runs contrary to historical American sensibilities. (Notice I didn't say simply American sensibilities.) However, sensibility flew out of the window about four years ago...

[Kolesar]

21. are they going to draft the inactive reserves just to have marchers?

We can taylor our signs for the occasion. Signs about benefit cuts, lack of armor, extended enlistments, unequal benefits for the reserves, extended tours in Iraq.

Support the troops!

[The Zanti Regent]

24. Why do that when there are millions of Jesusistas willing to do it

Why, think of the MILLIONS of Southern Fried Baptists and ASSemblies of Gawd members who just can't wait to revive the SA and SS!

[BiggJawn]

40. "Buzz" Bush's Minute Man Marching Society.....

Still think "IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE"?

Oh, Boy, goose-stepping troops, "patriot" missiles on mobile launchers, Bradleys and Abrahms tanks...

[mmonk]

25. Ah yes

Just like the photo ops in the old Soviet Union, North Korea, etc. VERY very appropriate in the new America. A warlike people celebrating their militarism. I write this not in insult to our armed forces. Just the new insanity in which we now pride ourselves in in our new 25 yr war for global domination.

[stevedeshazer]

26. January 20, 1945

http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres52.html

<snip>

"The fourth inauguration was conducted without fanfare. Because of the expense and impropriety of festivity during the height of war, the oath of office was taken on the South Portico of the White House. It was administered by Chief Justice Harlan Stone. No formal celebrations followed the address."

====================================================================
That's how it's done by a REAL President.

[moondust]

30. Exactly.

Is there an Indian word for "dances on the graves of his victims"?

[jmcgowanjm]

41. "dances on the graves of his victims"

Now that Gary Webb joins Mark Lombardi, J.H. Hatfield,
and Danny Casalaro as the fourth 'suicide' by a researcher
who had a detailed understanding of the structure and
function of the Bush crime family, the math on the odds of
the Bush suicides have changed.

"Examining the male U.S.suicide rate for recent years , we
can extrapolate a conservative estimate of 17 male suicides
per 100,000 people, or 0.017%. The odds of 4 specific,
male biographers committing suicide would be the 4th power
of 17/100000, or 8.3521 4.913 x 10^-17...roughly 1
chance 10,000,000,000,000,000. About as good a definition
of impossible as you can
get.

http://rense.com/general60/REPORT.HTM
http://consortiumnews.com/2004/121304.html

[tanyev]

27. Title needs to change one word.

Military Will Goosestep Front and Center at Inaugural Festivities.

Everybody start practicing your Sieg Heil salutes. Improper technique will raise suspicions.

[Mari333]

28. Anyone counting all the Madames and Hookers

that will be chalking up sales in DC that day? I , for one, want to know how many call girls will be used by the GOP morals bunch....

[Southpaw Bookworm]

42. Usually the Post has an article

Talking to local sex workers and exotic dancers about how business was: They did a great one right after the Promise Keepers rally, about all those good KKKristian men asking for a lap dance while still wearing their "Real Men Love Jesus" hats. I shit you not.

[Mari333]

49. wow! More red state morals eh??? n/t

[callous taoboy]

29. Bring back the goose step immediately. n/t

[July]

31. "Military theme" = Exploit the troops. nt

[Supersedeas]

33. 10 DAYS of pomp w/ the military as a PROP for the 2% who elected *

if Diebold said that its 51% to 49%, then let the War President CELEBRATE, I guess.

Hardly, a raving national endorsement for a War President, but RAVE and POMP, Mr. Rove....rave and pomp nonetheless.

[Guarionex]

34. I just want Bush

to flash a Seig Heil salute...just one...please?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

53. Perhaps that day is not as far off as we might think...

[MisterP]

58. too late: I don't have the pictures, but he goes stiff-armed a LOT

his grandpappy was known as "Hitler's angel," and we have the Hitler-admiring son of an SA man waiting in the wings (AHNULD the Mighty--my governor!)

[mmonk]

35. I wonder if

he will wear his new jacket?

[ElectroPrincess]

36. Yes, I bet those mid to lower level enlisted and officers ...

will not come close to enjoying those lavish "privately paid for" Inaugural Balls like the corporate elites of * Co will... but hey, they volunteered for the military, so it's their bust, eh?

And the security ... oh the security - we get to pay for that as the rich corporate fat cats spoil themselves with expensive champagne and individual ball gowns that could pay for troops' body armor.

But no, the money for OUR EXECUTIVE officer's big party is private.

Shameless corporate hogs bellying up to the trough of government handouts ... a seemingly endless feast at the expense of the working people.

[insane_cratic_gal]

37. Tactics

To make you look like Anti-soldier.. anti-american protest

Not only that, the MSM will be focused on the troops upfront.

Smooth Rove very smooth

[EFerrari]

39. Is this smart? If I were Smirk, I'd be afraid to be around all those

armed pissed off guys.

[GarySeven]

43. Grand review from atop the Lincoln Memorial ...

All the Grand Old Men of the party wrapped in coats and wearing tall fur hats as the guided missile trucks roll across Pennslyvania Avenue which will be lined with giant posters of "our leader."

Geez, it's a fuckin' nightmare.
But at least we won't have no hom-os a-gettin' married.

[brentspeak]

44. And the planes will circle around and around like in Soviet days

To project the image of a massive air fleet.

[gingergreen]

45. Request for Inaugural Tickets....

If anyone is going to DC... why don't you get tickets and then you can be closer inside to protest.

Check out the inaugural site... you just have to request them from your state senator.


http://inaugural.senate.gov/

The site's disgustingly pompous, but if we could get a bunch of people inside the more power we would have.

[bunkerbuster1]

50. I couldn't get past that portrait of Trent Lott

And I really can't make it to DC. But if I did, I'd make sure to stock up on eggs beforehand.

[American Tragedy]

70. Great idea

It would be great to have some DUers in there. I'm already arranging to go to DC.

On the other hand, it wouldn't be much of a protest. You can't even bring in posters.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

46. Thankfully, the Wall of Separation

between the press and the administration has been destroyed, making it possible for photographs of the parade to be released in advance.

Start your tour here.

The first couple

A bountiful array of consumer goods. Darn, all sold out.

Smite the evil DUers!

Enough chit chit; bring on the parade.









tons more of these here

[Kitsune]

47. I was about to say, did I wake up in Soviet Russia?

Took the words right out of my mouth.

And I think it's clear I JUST woke up, given that I can't even post to the right place. *grumblegrumble*

[SOS]

48. And we can watch it all

on Pravda-TV.

[lebkuchen]

52. Will yellow cluster bombs be thrown to children from military floats?

Or has the DoD finally changed the color to red, white and blue to avoid confusion with the care packages?

[MisterP]

56. I can almost hear "The International"

will they roll missiles around too?

[Tyler Durden]

78. HEY! As an Honest, Progressive Socialist, I resent that!

Try "The Hymn of the Soviet Union." NO good Stalinist would object to that, and the USSR isn't using it lately.

[VegasWolf]

57. awol too afraid to go it alone. n/t

[Just Me]

60. Well,...I only hope that many will wave with just ONE finger!!!!

(that would exclude the thumb)

:bounce:

Yep. Let's acknowledge how this CIC ACTUALLY embraces our courageous fighters for the US Constitution and liberty and security.

Let's give him a FULL MOON with a bit of crack in respect of his father's contribution to our country.

Whaddya' think!!!:toast:

[wtmusic]

61. Victoria Clarke: "Even people who adamantly oppose the war

respect what people in uniform are doing."

That's me, Vicky! Though I adamantly oppose the war I respect the way our men and women in uniform are illegally invading foreign countries and killing the ragheads, abusing prisoners, and taking no prisoners! (Um...is that what you meant?)

[daleo]

62. Condi Rice can finally put her Kremlinology skills to good use

After the military parades are over, she can pore over the photos, to try to figure out which Bush sycophant is on the ascendant and which is out of favor.

Condi: "Hey look, that's me in the back...oh, oh."

[Pachamama]

64. Has this ever been done before in a Presidential Inauguration?

Just wondering about historical precedents...

[American Tragedy]

71. the parades are organized by the Joint Task Force Armed Forces Inaugural

Committee currently, so it would seem that it always has some military element. TR had his Rough Riders from Spanish-American war march in the parade.

[Cooley Hurd]

69. Um... what troops?

With the next "rotation" happening in early January, what troops will be left in the US? One guy with a baton?:shrug:

[Southpaw Bookworm]

77. The Old Guard at Fort Myer

Who are responsible for burials at Arlington cemetery -- got to keep them in the States to keep up with the flow of dead from Iraq.

[Hand]

86. They're in Kuwait, I think.

At least a substantial portion of them. Parts of the Old Guard were deployed to the middle east several months ago, although I think not to Iraq--possibly Kuwait or Dubai.

Worse, the "aggressor" training units were scooped up and shipped out as well. Who's training the out-of-shape, underequipped reservists and Guard unit now? anyone's guess, I suspect.

:grr:

[Southpaw Bookworm]

89. Didn't know that.

Thanks for the info.

[Catchawave]

74. I wish they'd cancel the thing....

...we're at war! But it wouldn't be Bushlike to show any kind of respect...grrrr.

You guys who go, please be careful:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31016-2004Nov6.html

[neweurope]

80. 4000 combat forces! Cops every 6 feet!

New and stronger barricades! (Against the terrorists, to be sure). New screening technology for inaugural guests! For representatives of other countries that's an insult but unfortunately I'm sure none of them will protest. And with your tax money you have to pay for it all.

Yes, be careful.

[dave29]

79. Hiding behind the troops

how pathetic

[Stinky The Clown]

81. I wonder if our emperor will be wearing clothes.

[Fleshdancer]

82. I want as much protest pics and video on the net

I was pleasantly suprised to see the protest footage from 2000 on F9/11. I never knew because the news didn't report on it. The only thing that will get me through that horrible day is knowing that people like me are in DC protesting.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

83. Will the TANKS roll in the PARADE?

The TANKS showed up recently at the protest at the Federal Bldg, in L.A.(Westwood)
as a show of strength to those who oppose.

ANYONE KNOW?
Will there be any PROTEST at the so called "innauguration"?

What about the several C'mmander in Cheef "balls" afterwards.
Do ya think the amputees will be there dancing around in adoration of their "C'mmander in CHeef"?

That AWOL SOB has the nerve?
WE ARE NOW IN NAZI AMERIKA.
THE 4th REICH.
Can something be done to stop this?
This is a serious as it gets.
The survival of the World is at stake.
Nuking Iran NEXT.
Who in this country is willing to put down this coup de etat?
Patriot act provides for jaiingl any opposition and the "trouble makers" will never be heard from again.

is this a Hopeless situation?
Do we just sit back now and watch the Destruction on Fox and CNN?.

[American Tragedy]

90. Why don't you head out there and protest?

I'll be there. I wouldn't dare miss it.

[NAO]

84. Chairman Bush, "Our Leader" as seen in billboards and tank/missile parades

And the last photo-op had him in this too tight "members-only" looking jacket that made me think of old photos of Chairman Mao.

[Raster]

85. hmm... kind of like Leonid Brezhnev reviewing the troops in red square?

You know, standing with members of the supreme soviet atop Lenin's mausoleum, watching the nukes roll by. Makes my skin crawl....

[Q]

87. How many 'presidents' have put the military on display...

...for their inaugural? It looks like we've gone from a plain old dictatorship to a military dictatorship.

[Bridget Burke]

91. I Googled for images of Inauguration Parades....

The Old Guard has appeared--but they are locally based. Except they've been sent overseas....

Otherwise, the Aggie (Texas A&M) Band was about the most military-looking group to be seen; the marched in his previous parade.