Inflated Terrorism - Propaganda Lies by Project Censored's Peter Phillips

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http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/06/05/con06211.html

Inflated Terrorism – Propaganda Lies

May 23, 2006

by Peter Phillips, director of Project Censored

The Bush administration is paltering to the American public with exaggerated misconceptions of worldwide terrorism to frighten us into supporting a global police state. With seven hundred military bases and a budget bigger than the rest of the world combined, the US military has become the new supreme-power force repressing “terrorism” everywhere.

Vice President Dick Cheney’s keynote address at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference March 7, 2006 is a telling example of neo-conservative global dominance thought in the current administration. Here are his exact words:

... Israel, and the United States, and all civilized nations will win the war on terror. To prevail in this fight, we must understand the nature of the enemy. As America experienced on September 11th, 2001, the terrorist enemy is brutal and heartless. This enemy wears no uniform, has no regard for the rules of warfare, and is unconstrained by any standard of decency or morality. ... The terrorists want to end all American and Western influence in the Middle East. Their goal in that region is to seize control of a country, so they have a base from which to launch attacks and wage war against governments that do not meet their demands – ultimately to establish a totalitarian empire that encompasses a region from Spain, across North Africa, through the Middle East and South Asia, all the way around to Indonesia.

Vice President’s Remarks to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee 2006 Policy Conference ( whitehouse.gov )

Cheney claims that evil terrorists everywhere are plotting for the ruin of “civilized” nations. In order to stop them we must militarily control all the regions they are threatening in a permanent global war. Cheney’s military empire, set to prevail over the totalitarian terrorists, will inevitably expand global resistance to US domination. Large coalitions of freedom fighters, fundamentalists, patriots, religious zealots, nationalists, and ideologues of various beliefs will emerge from within the regions the US occupies…

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