Letters to the Editor
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At least some of the war-mongers knew what would happen...
...it's what they wanted.
Global Terror War successes, Bush Administration style:
1) Assuring that George W. Bush would be taken seriously as chief executive- check
2) Putting political opposition on the defensive so that questions about the historical role of the Bush Dynasty in American politics are off the front burner- check
3) Enabling George W. Bush Jr. re-election- check
4) Reviving warfare state to revive the Military-Industrial Complex- check
5) Playing the opposition party for chumps- check
6) Concentrating political power in the hands of presidential autocracy- (conditional- presently unfinished)
7) Dismantling the Bill of Rights- (still on course, despite some temporary reverses)
8) Strengthening identification of patriotism with militarism- check
9) Psychological warfare on the American citizenry through use of double-bind mind games, cognitive dissonance, and duplicity coupled with appeals to both emotions of fear and conditioned loyalties to State authority- check
10) Use of war-torn foreign nation as testing ground for mass surveillance technologies such as facial recognition technology- check
11) Use of American military personnel in no-knock searches and raids- check
12) Exploitation of loyalties of American military personnel to participate/approve/order/cover up torture and war crimes- check
13) running up Federal debt as a fait accomplit, to the point where spending for budget priorities except for military and police is increasingly viewed as "unaffordable"- check
14) Dress rehearsals by military and police for forcible containment of massive societal disruptions due to decades of neglect of environmental priorities and decayed national infrastructure- check
I suppose I could go on.