Military-Industrial Complex doublespeak:
Updated- WARNING: Has quotes from Dwight Eisenhower
Collateral damage: children and women with their heads split open from percussion bombs; arms mangled, legs severed, 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.
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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:
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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 braver than the Chicken Hawks in the current US administration.
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and of course, Pope John Paul II :
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Politicians: Government officials who have mastered the bravery of being out of range. Also see, gullible disingenuous plutocrats: geocities.com
Halliburton contracts: Viagra for the administration’s leading Chicken Hawk: Dick Cheney, and more money for that poverty-stricken clan, the Bushes:
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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 president:
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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:
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War criminals: 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: Bribed, cajoled, intimidated and threatened nations who won’t speak out against the war, even though their citizens may oppose it : disinfopedia.org
Unpatriotic dissent: “The most efficient way to keep the people in line is to limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.” -- Joseph Goebbels
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“This war is not about oil.”
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God Bless America. Indeed:
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The Defense Industry: Did not exist in the U.S. until after World War II, now by far the world’s largest. A sample of products purchased by our tax dollars:
Tomahawk cruise missiles @ 1.4 million each by Raytheon- over one thousand served since mid-March.
Patriot missiles @ 3.8 million each by Lockheed Martin
Hot new products: The MOAB (Mother of all bombs)
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See also: Dwight D. Eisenhower: “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. “
coursesa.matrix.msu.edu See also: The Cross of Iron Speech: “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children... This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”
-- From the 20th Century’s most distinguished general, Eisenhower.
See also: 1984, George Orwell
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Animal Farm, by George Orwell
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Feel frustrated? Need to do something?
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more on doublespeak:
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More on odd connections between the Bush family and the military/construction industry: “The ex-president’s club”
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