War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us To Death Page #2
States like these and their terrorist
allies constitute an axis of evil,
arming to threaten the
peace of the world.
These are barbaric people.
Servants of evil. The cult of evil.
A monumental struggle
of good versus evil.
But good will prevail.
Solomon:
Whether it's theSoviet Union or Al Qaeda,
it provides a way to
You have the comparisons between
President Bush calls Saddam Hussein
We are dealing with Hitler revisited.
Bin Laden and his terrorist
allies have made their intentions
Hitler before them.
Solomon:
We don't getinformation that...
would help us put the
images in perspective.
This mad dog of the Middle East.
I find that he's not only a
barbarian but he's flakey.
The drug indicted, drug-related
indicted dictator of Panama.
And to support their claim that
Noriega was out of control,
ghoulish evidence of Satanic
practices with dead animals
that one official called kinky.
Saddam Hussein is a
homicidal dictator
who is addicted to weapons
of mass destruction.
Solomon:
And as AldousHuxley said long ago,
it's more powerful often to leave
things out then to tell lies.
For instance, quite
often the US government
directly helped the dictators
that were now being told
must be overthrown and it's
that selectivity of history
that's a very effective
form of propaganda.
Narrator:
This selectiveview of reality,
buttressed by these
fear-based appeals
represents a larger pre-war pattern.
United States uses military force
only with great reluctance.
not start fights.
America does not seek conflict.
I don't like to use military force.
conflict reluctantly.
Narrator:
And only for themost virtuous of reasons,
first and foremost to spread
freedom and democracy.
We want nothing for ourselves,
only that the people of South Vietnam
Solomon:
The rhetoricof democracy is...
part of the process
of convincing people
that even though unpleasant things
must be done sometimes in its name,
democracy is really what it's about.
The United States has been engaged
in an effort to stop the advance
of Communism in Central America
by doing what we do best.
By supporting democracy.
Solomon:
And it'salmost as if though...
repeating it enough
times makes it so.
Our cause of liberty,
our cause of freedom,
our cause of compassion
and understanding.
People want democracy,
peace and the chance for a better
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