Nait It to the White House Door

[katty]

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Nail It to the White House Door
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Wednesday 15 June 2005

Almost five hundred years ago, Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Church, initiating a sequence of events which forever altered the geometry of global religion, politics and power. Luther's Theses began with the words, "Out of love for the truth and the desire to bring it to light, the following propositions will be discussed at Wittenberg."

Another document is going to be nailed to another door on Thursday, June 16th. This door opens not to a church, but to the White House. This document is freighted with hard truths, stern demands and nearly a million names. This document, once nailed up, likewise carries with it all the possibilities of change.

Very slowly, and after an embarrassing gap of silence from the news media, the American people have come to hear about the Downing Street Minutes. This document, once confidential but leaked by a British version of Deep Throat, describes in plain language the manner in which the Bush and Blair administrations planned to manipulate their way into an invasion of Iraq. The Minutes describe how intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy of invasion, and that a pretense for war had to be manufactured in order to paint a veneer of legitimacy over what everyone involved knew was a patently illegal military action.

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[Malva Zebrina]

1. while this essay may have some good points I don't particulary like

the references to Martin Luther, the rebel against the abuses of the Catholic church.

Luther was an adament, bigoted anti-semite and wrote some horrible diatribes condemning Jews.

http://www.nobeliefs.com/luther.htm

make of it what you will. There is plenty available on google to research this topic if you do not like this link. Some have said that Luther's teaching re the Jews, laid the foundation for the anti-semitism of the GErmans. At the least, it lurked in the background of German thought and may have had some influence upon the thinking that prevailed in the Third Reich.

[sundancekid]

3. I'm with you ... poor judgment for a role model ... the cahiers of the

French Revolution were also "nailed to the door" in a far more fitting and portable analogy ... we get your point, Will, we don't want to sacrifice substance for stylistic points, that's all.

[GetTheRightVote]

2. When a monent comes, ........... a very good quote

"A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the sound of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance."

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