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Blogs discover massive conspiracy to hide WMDs in Iraq

 
 
Reply Sat 21 Apr, 2007 10:13 am
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boomerang
 
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Reply Sat 21 Apr, 2007 10:34 am
I couldn't quite bring myself to finsih reading this but I'm curious -- did she find a way to blame in on Bill Clinton?
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AziMythe
 
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Reply Sat 21 Apr, 2007 11:42 am
Well, according to Dr. Strangelove at the University of Ottawa, bloggers have something more powerful than the bomb.
Maybe we should learn to worry about excessive freedom instead.

http://www.strangelove.com/
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Strangelove contends that the Internet breaks with the capitalist logic of commodification and that, while television produces a passive consumer audience, Internet audiences are more active, creative, and subversive. Writers, activists, and artists on the Internet undermine commercial media and its management of consumer behaviour, ...
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High Seas
 
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Reply Sat 21 Apr, 2007 01:41 pm
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Phillips is married to Joshua Rozenberg, the charming and self-effacing legal editor of the Daily Telegraph, and a former BBC employee. The couple have raised two children in west London, while Phillips has made her journey across the political spectrum. She genuinely believes that a cultural malaise now infects the country's intelligentsia, and keeps harping on about Gramsci, "the iconic thinker of the 1960s", who laid down the blueprint for precisely what happened in Britain: "The capture of all society's institutions, such as schools, universities, churches, the media, the legal profession, the police and voluntary groups.

http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/politicsphilosophyandsociety/story/0,,1798994,00.html

Gramsci?! The woman is obviously insane.
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blatham
 
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Reply Sun 22 Apr, 2007 05:47 am
Just finished reading this Greenwald piece before slipping into a2k. Some of the internal links are advised, if one wants to get even more depressed about just how nuts people can become.

Here's a link to Greenwald... http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/?last_story=/opinion/greenwald/2007/04/21/wmd_conspiracy/
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xingu
 
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Reply Sun 22 Apr, 2007 07:09 am
Fortunately people like Melanie Phillips and like are a minority. They find refuge in turmoil and unstable times. Countries with weak or virtually no strong central government are havens for the likes of Osama bin Laden and the Teliban. Melanie Phillips and her kind can never achieve success as long as a strong central government that maintains law and order are in place.

It's people like Bush and Blair that destabilize the world and create people like Melanie Phillips, Osama bin Laden and the Teliban. As long as there are people like them that want to use the military to destroy and create chaos we will see more and more of the Melanie Phillips type emerging.
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DrewDad
 
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Reply Sun 22 Apr, 2007 09:19 am
The continuing belief in WMD appears to be a case of cognitive dissonance, to me.

1. The US is the good guys, and wouldn't start a war of aggression.
2. The Iraq invasion was based on the existence of WMD.

To maintain the first belief, one must maintain the existence of WMD in Iraq prior to the US invasion.
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xingu
 
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Reply Sun 22 Apr, 2007 10:55 am
Well one can always conviently forget the reason we went into Iraq and make up new ones; like, we're bringing freedom to the Middle East. Aren't we great?
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