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US Not Exempt From All Law
22 July - Last week Washington, DC was shaken by a moderate earthquake. Many persons in the federal government were dismayed by this event, since they had assumed that the US was exempt from natural law as well.


Truth-Telling About Iraq -- (sort of)
15 July 2010 -
In recent articles about “progress” in Iraq, US news media are now referring to the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq as “the US-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein.”

That description is remarkably accurate. It was precisely the overthrow of Hussein that was the goal and purpose of the invasion. - see FS Special “Colonialism Undressed”.
There is no longer any mention in US news media of the alleged “weapons of mass destruction” that the US and Britain used to justify the invasion. And the word “topple” evokes a different cognitive and emotional reaction than the more candid term “overthrow”.

When US President George Bush declared, “Mission Accomplished” only three months into the occupation, while intense fighting still raged, many people wondered why he would make such a bravado claim. -- Actually Bush was being more honest than people thought or his advisors intended. -- The “mission” was not to protect the world from terror or to fight Al-Qaeda (who were not in Iraq). The mission that had been in US planning since the 1980s was to gain access to Iraq, without the difficult-to-control Saddam Hussein.

In US politics and business (which are the same entities) persons are paid to provide the desired “perspective” on various events. These professional word-smiths are often called “spin doctors”. Their task is to provide an interpretation that suits the government or corporate purpose, and to minimize or prevent unwanted questions. --
The “spin doctors” of the US corporate news media are now creating a new historical reality in which the US and Britain were the liberators of the Iraqi people; and no need to mention the torture or other atrocities, such as Fallujah.