At the invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939,
based on fraudulently manufactured acts of Polish
aggression against Germany, Admiral Canaris [see link
below] is said to have blanched and pronounced:
"This is the end." More properly he might have
reached this rightful conclusion less instantaneously,
and have said: "This is the beginning of the end,"
as bankrupter G.W.Bush's equally criminal invasion of Iraq, based as it was on even less convincing manufactured evidence, will mark the beginning of the of U.S. hegemony.
The Bush Presidency, which started with the bankruptcy
of one of his major supporters, the Enron Company,
ended, for all intents and purposes, with the bankruptcy of the U.S. IN 2008, papered over with trillions of dollars from the Fed to the US Banking Industry. No prosecution by the once head of the Harvard Law Review!
Compared to the dissension and the conspiracies within
the conservative elements of the German military under Hitler the dissent within the American military has been paltry.
I suspect that those interested in compounding the Iraq invasion with an attack on Iran, will have their way, with unforeseeable consequences, none of the pleasant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident#Events_at_Gleiwitz
Events at Gleiwitz
On the night of 31 August
1939, a small group of German operatives, dressed in Polish
uniforms and led by Naujocks,[2] seized the Gleiwitz
station and broadcast a short anti-German message in Polish (sources
vary on the content of the message). The Germans' goal was to make
the attack and the broadcast look like the work of anti-German
Polish saboteurs.[2][3]
To make the attack seem
more convincing, the Germans brought in Franciszek Honiok, a
German Silesian known for sympathizing
with the Poles, who had been arrested the previous day by the Gestapo. Honiok was dressed
to look like a saboteur; then killed by lethal
injection, given gunshot wounds, and left dead at the scene,
so that he appeared to have been killed while attacking the
station. His corpse was subsequently presented as proof of the
attack to the police and press.[4]
In addition to Honiok,
several other prisoners from the Dachau
concentration camp[2] were kept available for
this purpose.[3] The Germans referred to
them by the code phrase "Konserve" ("canned goods"). For
this reason, some sources incorrectly refer to the incident as
"Operation Canned Goods."[5]
[edit]Context
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Canaris
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Schrader