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Maw of the War Machine Screaming for Money, Blood
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t r u t h o u t)
Wed Feb 8 11:53:27 2012
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Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 11:53:26 -0500 (EST)
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t r u t h o u t | Here is a headline you won't read in the corporate press or see crawling across the TV screen:
"*Frothing, Insatiable Maw of the War Machine Screaming for More Blood and Treasure*"
This rhetorical escalation is reported as a "bipartisan consensus" to keep "all options on the table." But that doesn't mean it is anything but a ruse to pull us back into a military conflict in the Middle East. The language is reminiscent of early 2003: "Iran is developing nuclear weapons! We've got to stop it now! Otherwise Iran could hand it off to a terrorist!"
How long will it be before someone directly quotes the Bush administration and says, "The smoking gun will be a mushroom cloud"?
*This freak-out is infected with politics at every level* - fear-mongering is extremely beneficial for right-wing politicians in every country involved in this manufactured crisis, who seek to increase support for militaristic policy by evoking right-wing frames in the minds of their populations.
We must counter these frames and challenge the corporate media to investigate claims, instead of just copying and pasting them into their reports. Help us continue to publish voices of reason [ http://www.truth-out.org/iran-war-drums-beating/1328560738 ] and to call out the warlords who infect the halls of Congress, the fancy offices on K Street in DC, and the Pentagon.
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<p><i><b><span style=3D"font-size: medium;">Frothing, Insatiable Maw of the=
War Machine Screaming for More Blood and Treasure</span></b></i></p>
<p><span style=3D"font-size: medium;">This rhetorical escalation against Ir=
an is being reported as a “bipartisan consensus” to keep &ldquo=
;all options on the table.” But that doesn’t mean it is anythin=
g but a ruse to pull us into another military conflict in the Middle East. =
The language is reminiscent of early 2003: “Iran is developing nuclea=
r weapons! We’ve got to stop it now! Otherwise Iran could hand it off=
to a terrorist!”</span></p>
<p><span style=3D"font-size: medium;">How long will it be before someone di=
rectly quotes the Bush administration and says, “The smoking gun will=
be a mushroom cloud”?</span></p>
<p><b><span style=3D"font-size: medium;">This freak-out is infected with po=
litics at every level</span></b><span style=3D"font-size: medium;"> - fear-=
mongering is extremely beneficial for right-wing politicians in every count=
ry involved in this manufactured crisis, who seek to increase support for m=
ilitaristic policy by evoking right-wing frames in the minds of their popul=
ations.</span></p>
<p><span style=3D"font-size: medium;">We must counter these frames and chal=
lenge the corporate media to investigate claims, instead of just copying an=
d pasting them into their reports. Help us continue to <a href=3D"http://or=
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