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Posted By Spadecaller 6 months ago in Arts & EntertainmentThis Spadecaller video reviews the impact of megalomania on world events from both ancient and contemporary perspectives. Set to the music of Mozart's Carmina Burana - O Fortuna.
The Bush “Crusades” ushered in the darkest period in American history as well as introducing a host of players, who can only best be described as megalomaniacs.
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Spadecaller6 months ago
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A few days after the 9-11 assault, George W. Bush spoke spontaneously without the aid of advisers or speechwriters; he used a single word to describe the new American purpose. "This crusade," he said to describe the "war on terrorism." Obviously his statement, which occurred only a few days after the Trade Towers fell were more than just his usual faux pas.
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Crusade. I remember my stomach dropping at the President's use of that word, the outrageous ineptness of it. What I felt then was fear, sensing something more than an incompetent Bushism had occurred.
Contrary to Hollywood’s fantasies of the Crusades, the historic crimes of the Crusades became a modern day reality under the Bush administration. Secret prison camps, torture, an unjustified attack against Iraq, and its occupation have added to the meaning of his offhanded slip. Years after Bush’s embarrassed aids who had suggested that his use of the word was meant to be a synonym for struggle, the world now knows the horrid truth.
The Bush “Crusades” ushered in the darkest period in American history as well as introducing a host of players, who can only best be described as megalomaniacs.-
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mcgrievysr6 months ago
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The Bush "Crusaders", ah yes. They came, they saw, and they conquered the middle class of America. Instead of simply hunting down the 9/11 perpetrators as Bush had promised, Bush's quixotic crusade had our soldiers killing in quest of snuffing out an ideology. Can't be done. A "crusade"? Yes, but a heinous mistake which did indeed usher in "the darkest period in American" history. But hey, Bush assured us early on that the mission was accomplished, right? We're just hoping that present and future presidential administrations can get us back on the right track.
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Desdamona6 months ago
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Spade - these are very powerful images. I hope that history will not place this era on the same level as Hitler. I do agree with the megalomanic is an appropriate word for many who took advantage of the Bush administration. I wonder though were Kim Jong-II was on the list and the host of other Megalomanics who have or have had power in the world. History will look back at this era in the US and see its error but the problem is systemic around the world megalomanics are attracted to governance and they can be hard to spot until they are settled and hard to dislodge from power. How do you deal with a megalomanic once power is gained - how do you limit it or remove them without dislodging the stability of a nation...? These questions are hard to answer.
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Spadecaller6 months ago
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An educated, informed electorate, and free press are the best safeguards from megalomaniacs coming to power. Perhaps, that is why Bush and Cheney ushered in this past period of lawlessness and corruption...
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"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King Jr.
It rarely is the noise of the radical reactionaries that threaten the rise of despots, it is the silence of the moderates that always make the biggest difference.
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Spadecaller6 months ago
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"Osama bin Laden was already understood to be trying to spark a "clash of civilizations" that would set the West against the whole House of Islam. After 9/11, agitated voices on all sides insisted that no such clash was inevitable. But crusade was a match for jihad, and such words threatened nothing less than apocalyptic conflict between irreconcilable cultures. Indeed, the President's reference flashed through the Arab news media. Its resonance went deeper, even, than the embarrassed aides expected-and not only among Muslims. After all, the word refers to a long series of military campaigns, which, taken together, were the defining event in the shaping of what we call Western civilization. A coherent set of political, economic, social and even mythological traditions of the Eurasian continent, from the British Isles to the far side of Arabia, grew out of the transformations wrought by the Crusades. And it is far from incidental still, both that those campaigns were conducted by Christians against Muslims, and that they, too, were attached to the irrationalities of millennial fever."
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reallypsst6 months ago
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Very moving video spade,its true that throughout history many powerful people have gone into extreme actions in order to attain and preserve their status and egos,is it their timing and deception that allow such control over the masses,or are we conquered by simple words. In my view people in general are followers and not leaders and often are content to stay in their comfort zone until its to late in the game to question and oppose disaster!
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Endoscopy6 months ago
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Another sick commentary by Spadecaller. I think that Obama fits the description of the introduction definition of the video. The first 100 days he has stuck the country with a debt that is horrendous. His objective is to change the country into his image that is the far left wing image. Then Spadecaller does his outrageous radical calling of the Bush administration this evil name. That makes Spadecaller very evil to stoop to place Hitler and Bush in the same company. Hitler started a war that killed over 40 million people before it was over. Then Spadecaller puts Bush in the same category. Spadecaller has no shame. He uses Hitler like this for various ways of insulting people. Shameful methods.
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Spadecaller6 months ago
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"Another sick commentary by Spadecaller."
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As usual Endo opens his comments with a personal attack and lacks the ability to respectfully address the issues.
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War crimes, torture, secret concentration camps, locking up Muslims captured through paid bounties, and attacking and occupying another sovereign nation without just cause were all similar behaviors perpetuated by Germany during Hitler's reign.
Even though Bush was responsible for killing thousands of innocent civilians, imprisoning, and torturing innocent Muslims, I do not consider Bush in the same class as Hitler.
But black and white thinkers like Endoscopy are not able to see the forest for the trees. In Endo's world of make believe, there are only saints and devils.
Bush is a greedy megalomaniac responsible for killing and maiming thousands; isn't that enough?
Furthermore, I do not consider Bush "a Hitler", but I do find similarities in conduct worthy of addressing, despite Endo's ignorant and shallow condemnation of me.-
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Endoscopy6 months ago
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You ignored what I said. The personal attack is about your despicable tendency to take Hitler and put him up against other people
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Where did Bush do anything like the holocaust?
Where was there a night of glass?
How did he become a dictator?
Your accusations of atrocities by Bush are underwhelming.
You ignore what the law of the US is and claim torture.
You accuse our troops of war crimes.
In war time we have always had secret camps for POWs.
What kind of people did we take prisoners? Your accusation that it was willy nilly because of accusations is a slap in the face of our troops.
Invading Iraq was done with the aid and consent of the UN and 22 other countries and with the blessing of congress.
What happens in a war? People are killed and wounded. Who killed all of these thousands? How do you separate the killed and wounded between combatants and civilians? These people also hid behind civilians. You use a broad brush to paint our troops as bloodthirsty hateful despicable people who enjoy killing and maiming people. You sound just like the hippies back during Viet Nam. Always blaming out troops for things that they did not do. While some incidents happened you and they try to paint the whole armed forces with that hate filled brush.
I repeat - Spadecaller has no shame.
You are one sick person to ignore the truth and just peddle your hate.
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