Now Playing: a perfect circle - emotive
damn it, i made the mistake of further reading the transcript of bush's speech, and, well... let's just get on with it:
- "These militants are not just the enemies of America or the enemies of Iraq, they are the enemies of Islam and they are the enemies of humanity.
- "And we have seen this kind of shameless cruelty before, in the heartless zealotry that led to the gulags [vis a vis our own secret prison camps which recently made headlines], the Cultural Revolution and the killing fields [what's the score in iraq now? 2000 to 26931 (and that's just a recent minimum estimate].
- "Like the ideology of communism [cause, surely we need to have another cold war to last several decades, scar our children and keep us from actually repairing the world], our new enemy pursues totalitarian aims [and we don't, at all, even when we demand the world to be either "with us or against us"].
- "Its leaders pretend to be an aggrieved party representing the powerless against imperial enemies [whereas our leaders only pretend to be aggrieved party representing the powerless against the liberal elite, activist judges, tyrannical world leaders and evil itself]. In truth, they have endless ambitions of imperial domination [which will get in the way of us being in charge] and they wish to make everyone powerless except themselves.
- "Under their rule, they have banned books [like our fcc bans certain content] and desecrated historical monuments and brutalized women [while we just make them give birth to children they don't want and be constantly subservient to men]. They seek to end dissent in every form [while we appreciate dissent when it is fictional and in no way inspirational, a la the matrix*], to control every aspect of life, to rule the soul itself [but that's the church's job].
and let's end with another quote:
- "Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger." - herman goering at the nuremberg trials
* "the most pernicious image of all is the anarchist hero figure. a creation of commodity culture, he allows us to buy into an inauthentic simulation of revolutionary praxis. the hero encourages passive spectating and revolt becomes another product to be consumed." - king mob, the invisibles, grant morrison