Patriot Analysis – 9/11/03
Communism is Dead?
By Kirt R. Poovey
Who is running the U.S. government? Is it those who believe in democracy? Or is it those who believe in a republic such as the one founded by the likes of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, and our other founding fathers? Could it be communists in Republican clothing?
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, arguably one of the most influential members of the Bush administration, recently used a rather interesting phrase while he was in Baghdad. In trying to categorize those who continually attack our troops in Iraq, he told the press and the U.S. officials to call them “forces of reaction” and not resistance fighters. William Norman Grigg writes in The New American magazine that this is the same phrase used over and over by communist leaders and communist mouthpieces such as the daily newspaper of the American Communist Party, The Worker.
For those who have any knowledge of Wolfowitz, they know that he is considered to be a neo-conservative (neocon). What many do not know is that neocons trace their political heritage to Leon Trotsky and readily admit that they are Trotskyites. They claim that Trotsky wasn’t really a communist because Stalin had him killed. However, Stalin killed lots of communists around him when he felt the least bit threatened. Trotsky was one of the founders of the Soviet Union and was instrumental in the creation of the Soviet Red Army. He was definitely a communist.
Trotsky founded the Fourth International while in exile in Mexico City. This little organization was designed to promote “a ‘permanent revolution’ around the globe” according to Grigg.
Jett Heer of Canada’s National Post wrote in an essay that “thinkers shaped by the tradition of the Fourth International” helped Wolfowitz to develop America’s policy towards Iraq in preparing for the invasion. Wolfowitz’s mentors include Max Shachtman and Albert Wohlstetter, both American Trotskyites; and according to Heer, Wolfowitz talked with Kanan Makiya, a Fourth International academic, on Iraqi society.
According to Heer, Stephen Schwartz of National Review “observes that in certain Washington circles, the ghost of Trotsky still hovers around. Grigg writes in his column that Schwartz “speaks affectionately of Trotsky as ‘the old man’ and ‘L.D.’ (initials for Lev Davidovich Bronstein, Trotsky’s birth name).” Heer also finds that Schwartz “finds support for the idea of pre-emptive war in the old Bolshevik [that is, Trotsky’s] writings.”
Hmm, Schwartz, a Trotskyite writer, sees pre-emptive war in Trotsky’s writings; Wolfowitz is a neocon who have their beginnings and current thinking influenced by Trotsky; and Wolfowitz is a major influence peddler in the Bush administration which pushed the concept of pre-emptive warfare against Iraq. See any connections?
As Grigg points out in his article, “L. Paul Bremer, the Bush administration’s colonial overseer in Iraq, appointed Communist Party official Hamid Majid Mussa to occupy a seat on Iraq’s Governing Council. Makes you wonder what type of government we are trying to set up for the Iraqi people. There is an email crisscrossing the internet that suggests that the U.S. should let the Iraqis use the U.S. Constitution for the foundation of their government since we aren’t using it.
One reason given by Bush as to why we had to invade Iraq was the enforcement of UN Resolutions that Saddam was not abiding by. The UN Charter was largely written by communist traitors of our own nation and other communists. It is no wonder that the UN Charter sounds more like the old Soviet Union constitution than our US Constitution.
As we progress on this “War on Terrorism” our constitution is “stapled, folded, and mutilated” and many times just plain ignored. Our President, our Congress, and our Courts all ignore the crumpled piece of paper that so many soldiers have died for.
"We will stand, fight, and die to defend our country; but we will not blindly trust it. Even our Founding Fathers distrusted a large, centralized, all-powerful federal government -- so should we. Always be on guard to discern the truth and defend it at all costs."