“The whole idea is to train you to expect less and to feel patriotic about it.”
The effort to turn Iraq into a democracy, in other words, is making the U.S. less of one. Our opposition party has disappeared, corporate interests dictate public policy, and the feds may be rummaging through your e-mail.
There’s a dirty secret no one has told you, and here it is: This war is not about changing Iraq, it’s about changing America. - LA Times (use 12frogs and readit to login and read the whole thing) via FmH
Yes, those freedoms you thought we had here — freedom of association, freedom to check out books or surf the web at a public library without worrying about the government watching you, freedom to protest peacefully without going to jail, freedom from secret detention — those freedoms are disappearing.
The time has passed for saying “that can’t happen here.”
Meanwhile, the resident of the White House keeps saying the military is in Iraq “not to conquer but to liberate.” He says “village by village, city by city, liberation is coming.” So why didn’t he call this Operation Iraqi Liberation? Why is it is Operation Iraqi Freedom instead?
Could it be that Operation Iraqi Liberation (OIL) was too crass?
Could it be that with media outlets relentlessly pounding the word “freedom” into our heads every hour of every day, we would fail notice the real thing was missing?
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