by Norman Solomon

TruthOut

09/11/04

The prevailing rhetoric insists that any alternative to current U.S. wars is unthinkable. No less than Saadoun Hammadi two years ago, the president and vice president like to use the royal 'we' when discussing military action they favor. But the underlying message, decoded, can be understood as: 'Let's you and them fight.' During the next weeks, to a large degree, hopes for the Bush-Cheney ticket may hinge on the willingness of the news media to ignore such realities. Historically, the USA's media establishment has been overly fond of 'leadership' in Washington that sends other people off to kill and be killed -- routinely, as in the case of the Iraq war, on the basis of lies. Government officials who glorify other people's patriotic deaths are rarely eager to partake of such glory themselves. Cases in point: Saadoun Hammadi. Dick Cheney. George W. Bush...

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/091204L.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

It Explains Why We're Going To War And Why We Will Keep Going To War...

http://www.nwc.navy.mil/newrulesets/ThePentagonsNewMap.htm
http://www.booknotes.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1782


From Information Clearing House

The problem for the United States is the disconnect between this self-image and the way the rest of the world feels about us. Increasingly, people in other countries don't see America as that beacon of idealism but as something menacing...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6870.htm

http://www.redress.btinternet.co.uk/rburbach23.htm


From Information Clearing House

Administration hawk warns of further "preemption"...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6865.htm


From Information Clearing House

http://www.defenddemocracy.org/in_the_media/in_the_media_show.htm?doc_id=237053


Informant: Ken DeBusk

In the final analysis, the architects and the propagandists of the Holy Empire are doing precisely what has been done for 2500 years by all empires: calling the victims of their aggression "barbarians," "savages," "uncivilized," "undemocratic," etc. to make conquering them easier.

http://www.counterpunch.org/sasan09042004.html


From Information Clearing House

Poland's president said he did not want to see “America take the ideas of the neoconservatives of isolationism, to have full dominance in the world and to play a divide-and-rule policy - it is a mistake.

http://www.iht.com/bin/print.php?file=536957.html


From Information Clearing House

http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/08/27/120.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp