LaRouche: State of the Union Address, 2003

War Must Be Stopped--Here!
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War Must Be Stopped--Here!

Question: "We have a series of questions from the LaRouche Youth Movement, all of which are of a similar genre, and I will get to them. But we got one thing sent in, which I just wanted to read. It says: “Dear Lyn, if you don't win, we have no future. So we'll do whatever you say, and we want you to know that. So you tell 'em, because you're saying what we want to hear. You go, Lyn!'

I will say, I thought that Mr. LaRouche had largely addressed this question in the course of his remarks, and in some of his answers, but we are getting an absolute clamoring of questions in, on the question of the war against Iraq. And, despite what you said, those questions have not diminished in number.

Actually, Helga epp-LaRouche] called, and asked that you please address this question, because, apparently all of the offices around the world, are being bombarded; because people are very alarmed, at the current direction of the government. They want to know what your instructions are on this.

LaRouche: Basically, I tried to deliver an instruction on this occasion, under these circumstances, to #43. And, as I said, it's not just to 43; it's to the Presidency around him.

Look, let's be realistic: We're living under an empire, and you will not solve the problem, by trying to find out what individual countries can do to change the situation. They can't. This is an empire! It's an English-speaking empire. It's acting as such.

What we've done so far, in trying to stop this war, was to get other countries to stop being pessimistic. Don't use the words, “The war is inevitable.” It is not inevitable! The end of civilization is not inevitable. The point was, that while the Democratic and Republican parties have been essentially useless in the matter of effective action, effective forms of action--some people have done some good things; but they won't cut the mustard; they won't do the job. Other countries, protest movements, and so forth, may contribute to the environment, but it won't solve the problem: We have to solve this problem of war, here! Inside the United States! It can not be solved any place else.

Since the Democratic and Republican party are generally, as parties, at the moment, rather worthless--even though there are many useful people I would like to have working with me in them--as long as they have Lieberman and McCain in the positions they occupy in the party, you don't have a party. Not one that functions.

Therefore, in this matter, of stopping this war, which is not only war--it's a war of civilizations, which will not be contained to Iraq. In stopping this war, the institutions are those of the Presidency! The military, the professional, regular military, not the idiots, the Chickenhawks. Not Lewis Libby, the Marc Rich lawyer, sitting in Dick Cheney's office. No, the people who are going to stop it, are the people in, and associated with, the institutions. Look, the people who have worked with me, and with my friends, in working to delay this war so far, have come from those institutions, who are associated with the Presidency, and know what the Presidency is, and what it means. So I'm acting, as a President should act, while not a President; to try to mobilize the conscience of the institutions, to a more effective--

For example, there's one problem, the problem I've discussed under other auspices. There are people who say, “How can we make the kind of agreements that you propose be made, how can we trust these other countries, to make these kinds of agreements?” And, what they're arguing from is Hobbes' conception of innate conflict among individuals or individual nations; Locke's conception of property, and so forth. They're arguing from that standpoint. My problem in dealing with leading politicians in the United States, is, they are chauvinists on this question: They believe in the legacy of Hobbes and Locke. And, therefore, if I can get the institutions of the United States to recognize--for example: We have now, among Russia, China, South Korea, some people in Japan, Southeast Asia, and to some degree India, we have a new agreement on the organization of this planet. We have, in Germany, implicitly in France, and Italy, we have--as I know these countries--we have an implicit agreement, that we want an arrangement under which Western Europe needs the market, is now going to cooperate with the largest market in the world, which is the Strategic Triangle group. That's what these countries need.

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