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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (86286)	3/25/2003 8:58:37 PM
From: Ron	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Military-Industrial Complex doublespeak: Collateral damage: children and women with their heads split open from percussion bombs, houses burned to rubble, along with charred bodies of old people, children, fathers and mothers and the family pet. Supplemental Defense Budget: Bush’s proposed $75- billion for the current war. Approximately $3375 for every man woman, and child in Iraq. Geneva Convention: What the enemy always violates, but we never do. Weapons of Mass Destruction: Bombs, poison gas, biological agents, stealth bombers, napalm... but not, of course, armaments sold across the globe by the world’s largest manufacturer and marketer of war materials: The USA. See also: Smokescreen for Weapons of Mass Deception: disinfopedia.org Nation Building: What George W. Bush promised he would never engage in. Regime Change: What Saddam Hussein tried to do to Bush the First. Shock and Awe: What we do to the enemy. Terrorism.: What the enemy does to us See also: Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Pearl Harbor, Tokyo incendiary bombing, Kristallnacht, My Lai , blitzkrieg, 9/11, See also Propaganda as terrorism: disinfopedia.org Peaceniks: Concerned, honest people who are much braver than the Chicken Hawks in the current US administration. symbolman.com nhgazette.com tompaine.com and of course, Pope John Paul II : washingtonpost.com Politicians: Government officials who have mastered the bravery of being out of range. Halliburton contracts: Viagra for the administration’s leading Chicken Hawk: Dick Cheney, and more money for that poverty-stricken clan, the Bushes: gooff.com National Guard Duty: For those poor saps who didn’t manage to get into Skull and Bones at Yale: awolbush.com "F___ Saddam. We're taking him out." An eloquent commitment of America’s military forces by an unelected rich boy who was born on third base, but thinks he hit a triple. time.com Embedded media: In-bed–with–media: Military propaganda technique, following Microsoft’s strategy of “embrace and conquer.” See: “The First Casualty” by Phillip Knightley. See also: Clear Channel Communications: prwatch.org War criminals: All persons in positions of power who send soldiers into battle without exhausting all reasonable alternatives of negotiation, economic pressure, espionage or common sense. Sound like anyone you know? Coalition of the Willing: Buzzword that connotes bribed, cajoled, intimidated and threatened nations who won’t speak out against the war: disinfopedia.org See also: 1984, George Orwell online-literature.com Animal Farm, by George Orwell k-1.com