War Without End-Against An Abstract Noun: Elusive, Elastic, Ill-Defined NO-THING (Chris Floyd)

[kpete]

More War is Job One: Torturing the Truth on Iran
Written by Chris Floyd
Wednesday, 05 December 2007

no matter what Iran actually does – or doesn't do – the Bushists will continue to use the "Persian menace" as fodder for the imperial war machine.
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In seeking to prohibit Iran from acquiring the scientific knowledge to build a bomb, Bush is once again employing one of the Regime's most effective methods of fueling the wars and rumors of war that "justify" the "unitary executive's" tyrannical power grabs, keep the populace in a proper state of fear and confusion – and gorge the military-industrial complex with blood money: the Impossible Crusade.

As we all know, Bush has declared war on "Terror": a "long war," a "multi-generational war," a war without end…against an abstract noun, against an ever-elusive, ever-elastic, ill-defined concept which can never be "defeated" because it is, literally, no thing. It is just a name applied to various actions at various times. (Who can forget how Ronald Reagan's "freedom fighters" from the international jihadi army in Afghanistan became the "Islamofascists" who now threaten the very existence of Western Civilization?)

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But of course, as we have often noted before, the Bush Administration is not really interested in stopping nuclear proliferation. Rather, the Bushists are interested in using nuclear proliferation as a fearmongering goad to advance their agenda of dominion and loot. The fact that it is impossible to eliminate or control the scientific knowledge of nuclear weapons only makes it a more potent tool for stoking permanent war fever: it will always be out there, it's a "dire threat" that will never go away.

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UPDATE: Iran expert Farideh Farhi has a surreal moment while hearing the unstoppable vomiting of lies coming from George Bush's mouth in his press conference about Iran. But we have to agree with one of Fahri's commenters: method, not madness or ignorance, is behind Bush's crude lies. He knows that the corporate media will not call him on his bare-faced, self-serving revision of the historical record, so he feels free to invent and pervert as he sees fit. Still, it's good to see some of the lies flayed open – for those who still care about such things. Obviously, our high media mandarins don't.

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much more at:
http://www.chris-floyd.com/Articles/Articles/More_War_is_Job_One:__Torturing_the_Truth_on_Iran/

[annabanana]

1. "high media mandarins " !!-

What a great phrase. They are the imperial rulers of Corpomedia. I will use it to describe them from now on.

[Lasher]

2. Endless war against no one

and against everyone.