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03/25/2004 Archived Entry: "Bush gassed his own people."
Bush gassed his own people.
'Embed' or 'in bed?' We report, you decide.
The truth is, in a manner of speaking, U.S. President George W. Bush gassed his own people.He, and his administration, did it with hot air about how Iraq posed "a threat of unique urgency" and how Saddam Hussein had "reconstituted nuclear weapons."
One year after the bombing of Baghdad, we know that the White House and the Pentagon prevaricated their way into Iraq. This while the media waved them on in a flag-flying frenzy that CBS's Dan Rather called "patriotism run amok."
"What we are talking about here — whether one wants to recognize it or not, or call it by its proper name or not — is a form of self-censorship," he told the BBC in 2002. "I worry that patriotism run amok will trample the very values that the country seeks to defend."
And it did, at least according to University of Toronto history professor Paul Rutherford.
"For a brief time the United States ceased to be a democracy and became a propaganda state," he says. "Effectively, democracy was overwhelmed by managed discourse, by managed speech."
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Thanks, Blah3, thanks for getting me depressed and pissed-off all over again.
Leave it to a Canadian to cut through the bullshit.
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 03/25/2004 03:27 PM NY
not to mention the fact that he is litterally gassing his own people with mercury, arsnic, and all the other toxic emmission standards that he has lowered. oh yeah, and there is also the actual nerve gass that he is dumping into the river in jersey. besides that, i suppose he is gassing us with hot air as well, it just doesnt seem quite as bad as the actual poison...
Posted by justin @ 03/25/2004 09:30 PM NY
