Doubleyou-speak (793 hits)
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Submitted by Tokerson (View user info) at 2004-11-04 19:32:17 EST
This has been taken from www.theboywhocriediraq.com and was not written by me, but was deemed uber worthy by me, so here it is.
Doubleyou-speak
The George Bush propaganda machine is changing our thoughts and opinions with Orwellian Doublespeak
1. "Regime"
You will never hear Hussein's CIA-sponsored Ba'ath party referred to anything but a "regime." After all, what kind of American could support a "regime?"
2. Operation "Iraqi Freedom"
Who can oppose freeing Iraqi people? How can the war be about anything but freeing an enslaved people if it's called Operation Iraqi Freedom?
I guess "Operation Iraqi Freedom.... From having homes" would be more accurate.
If George Orwell were still alive, he'd spend his time lamenting about why he couldn't think of something so nefariously genius. Who could oppose freedom? Only tyrants and terrorists. Go back to bed, America, Iraq will be free in no time.
Does George Bush intend to free Iraq the same way he freed Afghanistan?
If you rely on domestic news sources for your accurate information, you've probably missed the sarcasm.
After 9/11, George Bush Junior retaliated against the terrorist-harboring country with our favorite hobby: indiscriminately bombing the shit out of a country full of brown people. Seems ironic that a bombing of civilians is retaliated by a BIGGER bombing of civilians.
To put it in perspective, lets just call the White House's Middle East policy "Nine Eleven... Billion"
More innocent Afghani civilians died by American bombs than those at the World Trade Center on 9/11. (And we never even did get our targets)
Afghanistan is now worse off than before. The country is in economic shambles, in a state of anarchy violently ruled by drug barons and warlords.
George Bush Junior promised to stand by the Afghan people, too.
He promised food and healthcare to the Iraqi people. But since 1991's sanctions, over one million Iraqi civilians have died as a direct result of the American Led UN Resolution 1441. Over 500,000 of those were children.
George Bush Junior announced that immediately after Iraq is taken over, it will be controlled by General Tommy Franks as a military dictatorship. Leaked documents have exposed details on the martial law that will be imposed.
If irony was oil, George Bush Junior would bomb my house and steal that paragraph.
3."Coalition of the Willing"
Countries that support Bush are being referred to as the Coalition of the Willing. I guess this is accurate if willing to do something means being bullied into it.
The United States has incredible political and economic influence over most of the world. While the administration claims that it did not strong-arm any nation into the coalition, fact (Bush's real nemesis) points in the opposite direction.
America can block any country from entering NATO and uses this as leverage. Want in NATO? Not if you oppose the United States.
The United States accounts for 25% of all economic activity on Earth and is able to use that to effectively impose its will on smaller nations.
In 1991, during the first Gulf War, China was going to veto the UN Resolution allowing the war. A bribe of economic and diplomatic aid, especially right after Tienammen Square, quickly turned them right around. The votes of many smaller countries were also bought with money and aid.
But it's the countries that can't be bought that need to be added up:
On February 20, 2003, representatives from 52 African Nations gathered in Paris and issued a statement opposing the war except as a last resort.
On February 25, 2002, 116 nations passed a statement opposing the war.
The countries with the largest GDPs in Europe, South America, Africa, and Asia all oppose the war.
Yet George Bush Junior has the audacity to call the UN "ineffective." If by ineffective he means "doing everything they can to support peace at the will of over 170 nations," then yes, I'd have to agree.
What happens when bin Laden uses the same excuse to justify his next attacks? What happens when he says that "The United States can no longer resort to blackmail and terrorism" and that he must pre-emptively strike before the United States tries to invade the next Arab country?
If irony were Filipino slave laborers we could out-produce Nike.
America sees support from the absolute monarchies of countries like Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan because of the amount of money at stake. They are all dependant on US dollars, as well as the United States military to keep them in power.
Of course, there are countries that support the war without being strong-armed. Spain, Italy, Australia, Denmark, Portugal and Japan officially all support George Bush's war. However, their populations don't, and the massive protests have made that very clear.
The entire sum of the populations of the coalition countries adds up to a mere 10.4% of the world population. That's assuming 100% of the population agrees with their country's official stance. Based on polls and protests, about 10% of this sum supports the war.
If 9/11 taught us anything, it's that our new enemies are the individuals, not the states. That's over 5 billion potential bombers. We couldn't even stop 19.
When Yemen voted against the war resolution, they were told by an American diplomat that that "would be the most expensive 'no' vote you ever cast," and three days later America cut all financial aid to Yemen. I wonder how many Yemenites were affected enough to join Al-Qaeda or one of the numerous other terrorist organizations looking to attack our homes. I bet more than one.
Syria was removed from the "Terrorism-Supporting Country" list after supporting UN Resolution 1441 against Iraq. I wonder if after the UN voted all of the potential terrorists changed their minds.
Take Mexico, for example. The United States buys more than 80% of their exports. America could easily buy those products from another country, and would! Mexico's economy would instantly collapse.
AND can you imagine how much more racist this country would be against Mexicans, and peoples from other countries that looks similar?
Just look at what happened to France.
4."Freedom Fries"
Like Eurasia was to Orwell's Oceania, France is America's favorite non-threatening enemy. This is being actively promoted by the government and media. Politicians are threatening to raise tariffs or just block imports from France all together. The same people claiming to not be racist are the very ones supporting this.
Let's be realistic. How is France's protest of this war any different than the American people's protests of the Vietnam "conflict?" Given, France is protesting for economic reasons, but I personally welcome the opposition to global imperialism any time I can get it.
If that makes me un-American, then I can be as proud to be called un-American as Schindler was to be called un-German. Look at this from 80% of the rest of the world's perspective.
And the absolute worst thing to happen to culture since, well, since "ever," many "Americans" have begun calling French Fries "Freedom Fries."
If you support this, don't even finish reading this. I don't want you to. Just believe me when I say that this world will be a LOT better off without you.
I have a better idea. Why don't you go tear down the statue of liberty? You know the French made that, right?
You do that, and I'll be watching from the mainland, eating French Toast and French Fries and drinking Evian. And I don't even drink Evian. But I'm going to start to because fuck you.
Oh, and make sure to think of me next time you're freedom kissing your girlfriend.
The main argument against France is that they have a weak military history, like that is somehow at all relevant to anything at all.
What kind of fucked up adolescent high school bigger-dick-than-you jock mentality dictated that one? That's like pitting Gary Kasparov against a hungry, wounded lion, awarding the win to the lion when it eats Kasparov, then renaming "playing Chess" to "Feeding the hungry" and protesting the Chess Board for disputing the win.
People love to bring up the fact that if you type in "French military victories" in the Google search engine it gives you a page that recommends "French military defeats"
Well, I love to bring up the fact that people are fucking stupid. I just haven't made a webpage about it yet.
Look at the URL next time you're claiming that search engine results should dictate foreign policy. It's not even a Google page. It's a spoof webpage. Some guy made it. Maybe the same guy that Tony Blair hired to fabricate his "proof."
Bill Maher put it perfectly: "At least the French have the balls to stand up to the Bush Administration, unlike the Democrats."
Remember when the opposite party at least pretended to offer opposing views. Now we have Tom Daschle, senate minority leader, saying one tiny little comment and then taking it back when the republicans give him the eye? We need France's opposition more than ever.
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Submitted by Wiggles (user info) at 2004-11-05 23:48:22 EST (#)
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You didn't mention the "Clear Skies" and "Healthy Forests" initiatives, which are probably the best examples of Bush's double-speak.
Submitted by toddska (user info) at 2004-11-05 09:51:44 EST (#)
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"If George Orwell were still alive, he'd spend his time lamenting about why he couldn't think of something so nefariously genius."
....and someone would have assassinated his ass for peskily getting in the way with his ideas.
Submitted by Arsenal (user info) at 2004-11-04 22:23:14 EST (#)
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Would've been a +2 if you had written it. Thanks for finding it though. Orwell was a genius, it almost seems like he predicted what would happen. Can I ask older generations if they have felt the same way in the past?
Submitted by Nobb (user info) at 2004-11-04 21:53:34 EST (#)
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Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2004-11-04 20:14:14 EST (#)
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Submitted by Jesus_Loves_TwEE (user info) at 2004-11-04 20:11:08 EST (#)
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Baaammmmm
Submitted by Stabkill (user info) at 2004-11-04 20:05:05 EST (#)
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To counter a +2.
Submitted by FuckTheArmy (user info) at 2004-11-04 20:04:28 EST (#)
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Un-Australian and proud.
Fuck the bipartisans.
Submitted by domenad (user info) at 2004-11-04 19:53:21 EST (#)
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<sigh> I get so tired of your pseudo-intellectual bullcrap, but Freedom Fries were REALLY dumb, so I won't negative you.
Submitted by zakalwe (user info) at 2004-11-04 19:37:54 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Good, if a little dated. From what I've read, Daschle's defeat should be a good thing in the long run (for the Democrats).