War is the New Peace

by Sheldon Rampton — July 23, 2006 - 6:21pm
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"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace."—Tacitus
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Shortly after attacking Iraq in March 2003, President Bush told wounded soldiers that "the war in Iraq is really about peace." Now it seems that 'peace' is breaking out in Lebanon too. The Washington Post reports that "Bush sees a step to peace" in the current "Mideast strife." According to White House counselor Dan Bartlett, "a moment of clarity has arrived."

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Washington Post, July 21, 2006

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Looks like Rice learned from Cheney's mistake

Submitted by Mutternich on July 25, 2006 - 12:52pm.

She said about Lebanon what he should have said about Iraq -- "birth pangs" of the new Middle East, rather than "final throes of the insurgency."