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President Bush resorted to emotive rhetoric as he exhorted his reluctant countrymen to back him over war in Iraq, where nearly 2,000 US soldiers have died (KEVIN LAMARQUE / REUTERS)


Bush begs for support to fight 'evil radicals' waging war on humanity
From Tim Reid in Washington


IN AN impassioned plea to America to hold its nerve, President Bush said yesterday that Islamic radicals were trying to take control of Iraq as part of a plan to “enslave whole nations and intimidate the world”.


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Mr Bush, who rarely mentions Osama bin Laden by name, referred in his speech to the al-Qaeda leader three times, and made frequent reference to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian terrorist leading the Iraqi insurgency.

Comparing bin Laden and al-Zarqawi with Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot, he said: “Other fanatics have consumed whole nations in war and genocide before leaving the stage of history. Evil men obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience must be taken very seriously, and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply.”


Full story -> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1814963,00.html


Pol Pot...?  Hmmmm...  I remember, back in 1980/1, the US being heavily criticised in the international arena for siding with Cambodia/Kampochea when Vietnam was invading and ousting Pol Pot's murderous regime.  Of course the US had just been humiliated by the Vietnamese in their own country only a few years before.  So, yesterday's hero, today's evil man.  Just like Saddam...



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nice picturehe looks alarmed and confident and a prick all at once.very impressive

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"He's not evil. He doesn't smirk, or cackle, or twirl a moustache...well, he doesn't twirl a moustache."


 - Bill Maher



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haha.you come out with some great quotes meekus

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The hypocrisy spouting from the mouths of Bush - and Blair - is astounding in it's audaciousness.


a plan to “enslave whole nations and intimidate the world”


"Evil men obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience must be taken very seriously, and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply.”


Who is Bush talking about, if not himself?


Have any of you read George Orwell's 1984?  It is a truely prophetic novel.  Frighteningly so.  Here is a run-down of the doublespeak/newspeak employed to mollify the proles (population), with a comparison with today's doublespeak: http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/


The authoritative Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak


A fundemental reason why fascism, in all it's guises, has to be opposed: http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Aug04/Giroux0820.htm


What I found really interesting recently was, immediately post-Kartrina, the news services were not being fed news by the government machines (because government was in utter chaos), so what did they do?  Well, they went out and discovered the news for themselves.  And reported it raw, with condemnations of the way roads in the commercial sector of New Orleans were being swept clear of leaves whilst human bodies rotted in the water and on pavements, of how there were umpteen versions of law enforcement milling around doing nothing much because they hadn't received orders to do anything whilst there was one doctor to care for the sick and injured inhabitants.  And it was just as clear when the government propaganda machine was working again because the news stories all became to be about how well the clean-up was going.


As I head for the exit on this life, I am truely worried for the coming generations and what sort of world they will have to inhabit.



-- Edited by oeokosko at 15:07, 2005-10-08

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