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In the ever-lengthening anthology of American euphemisms for violence – detention, engagement, incursion, insurgency, counter-insurgency, peace-keeping, pre-emption, the latest, “regime change”, seems possibly the most subtle.
With regard to Iraq this means the murder of thousands of people American, British and Iraqi, a human health and environmental crisis brought on by allied usage of depleted uranium munitions, increased incidence of terrorism world wide through allied insistence and promotion of violence. Somehow “regime change” comes across as a slightly gentler process. At least it relates to what is actually going on: removal of Hussein.
Nobody believes the euphemisms, so why do they still use them?
When George W. says “We must be strong and secure the peace,” we can be sure he is saying - We must, at all costs and no matter what anyone else says, go to war.
When Big George says “They hate us for our freedom,” we know he’s saying - We are going to use pre-emptive strikes to usher in an era of neo-colonialism and those damn primitives should be thankful that we are willing to colonize their backward nation.
When Bushy says “Our quarrel isn’t with the Iraqi people,” he means - We’re gonna bomb them, and real soon. And when we’re done we expect they’ll thank us.
When Mr. Bush says “We are going to liberate the Iraqi people” he is saying – We know that they will work for pennies in our garment factories, and spend those hard earned pennies on garbage we force them to import from us.
When George Bush says “I’m a patient man,” he means - I can’t stand this waiting around, send in the stealth bombers.
The first major task of a ruler, it has been said, is the rectification of language. What America has been doing since 09/11/01 goes a bit beyond, I would say. When words are used to mean their opposite, true thought becomes pretty difficult.
To say that they are after Saddam because “he has weapons of mass destruction” (like Britain, United Sates, Pakistan, France, Israel, China, India, Russia and dozens of others) and “murders his own people” (like the United States, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Russia, China, Indonesia and dozens of others) and “uses chemical weapons” (Recall Americans napalming civilians in Vietnam, Iraq etc. And Russian troops gassing Chechens. And, well, dozens of other situations) and “sponsors terrorism” (Think of America giving weapons and vehicles to Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Indonesia, radical Islamists groups to aid Bosnian Muslims, and others... Not to speak of all of the out right terrorist acts committed by America and its friends directly) and he’s a “barbaric dictator” (like Batista, Marcos, Pinochet, Suharto, Noriega, Stalin and other friends of the United States), flaws can arise in ones argument and one can look a fool.
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With regard to Iraq this means the murder of thousands of people American, British and Iraqi, a human health and environmental crisis brought on by allied usage of depleted uranium munitions, increased incidence of terrorism world wide through allied insistence and promotion of violence. Somehow “regime change” comes across as a slightly gentler process. At least it relates to what is actually going on: removal of Hussein.
Nobody believes the euphemisms, so why do they still use them?
When George W. says “We must be strong and secure the peace,” we can be sure he is saying - We must, at all costs and no matter what anyone else says, go to war.
When Big George says “They hate us for our freedom,” we know he’s saying - We are going to use pre-emptive strikes to usher in an era of neo-colonialism and those damn primitives should be thankful that we are willing to colonize their backward nation.
When Bushy says “Our quarrel isn’t with the Iraqi people,” he means - We’re gonna bomb them, and real soon. And when we’re done we expect they’ll thank us.
When Mr. Bush says “We are going to liberate the Iraqi people” he is saying – We know that they will work for pennies in our garment factories, and spend those hard earned pennies on garbage we force them to import from us.
When George Bush says “I’m a patient man,” he means - I can’t stand this waiting around, send in the stealth bombers.
The first major task of a ruler, it has been said, is the rectification of language. What America has been doing since 09/11/01 goes a bit beyond, I would say. When words are used to mean their opposite, true thought becomes pretty difficult.
To say that they are after Saddam because “he has weapons of mass destruction” (like Britain, United Sates, Pakistan, France, Israel, China, India, Russia and dozens of others) and “murders his own people” (like the United States, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Russia, China, Indonesia and dozens of others) and “uses chemical weapons” (Recall Americans napalming civilians in Vietnam, Iraq etc. And Russian troops gassing Chechens. And, well, dozens of other situations) and “sponsors terrorism” (Think of America giving weapons and vehicles to Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Indonesia, radical Islamists groups to aid Bosnian Muslims, and others... Not to speak of all of the out right terrorist acts committed by America and its friends directly) and he’s a “barbaric dictator” (like Batista, Marcos, Pinochet, Suharto, Noriega, Stalin and other friends of the United States), flaws can arise in ones argument and one can look a fool.
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