George Bush's "Major Speech" Resets the Terror Trap!

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George Bush's "Major Speech" Resets the Terror Trap!

Will America Take the Bait?
A TvNewsLIES Analysis - October, 2005

The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. – Heinrich Himmler

On the morning of October 6th, George W. Bush made a not-for-prime
time "major" speech before a select group of supporters. For those
unfamiliar with the National Endowment for Democracy, rest assured
that it is a highly controversial, tax-supported group that tries to
influence elections in foreign countries. What a perfect audience for
the President!

The speech was redundant and unremarkable, despite being hyped as
significant' and highly important. There was little new rhetoric and
not an iota of comfort for a nation consumed with concern about the
morass and turmoil in Iraq. There was, however a concerted effort to
capitalize on a strategy that worked so well in the President's rush
to war in 2003: make them afraid.

The speech this morning was carefully constructed to prey upon the
innermost fears triggered by the attacks of 9/11. It pulled out every
available stop in an effort to use those alarms to gain support for
staying the course in Iraq. The speech this morning was designed to
once again lure Americans into the insidious and sinister Bushco
Terror Trap.

OILING THE SPRINGS

In case you missed it, the tactics started early in the week. George
Bush and Dick Cheney both got the word out last Monday: Without
provocation, Bush's senior aides warned that "a quick exit for US
troops could sow a deadly harvest of future terror attacks on US
soil." At almost the same time, Cheney cautioned that Iraq could
become a staging area for large-scale terrorist attacks on the United
States if troops are withdrawn too early. They had tossed the public
some food for future thought.

The next opportunity came at Tuesday's press conference. The President
was asked only ONE question about the war, yet he managed to repeat
"terror" or "terrorist" SEVEN times during his exchange with
reporters. "We also got [sic] to continue to make sure we meet our
obligations to prevent further terrorist attacks," Mr. Bush reminded
us. "Iraq is a part of a global war on terror," he insisted, without
challenge or explanation, as usual.

The stage was set, subtly and craftily to try to win back waning
support for the war. The main performance would be on Thursday, when
the President would give his `"significant" speech to the nation. It
would be "the latest shot in a volley of addresses on Iraq by top
administration figures" ahead of a referendum on Iraq's draft
constitution on October 15. With little fanfare, but with calculated
measure, the Trap was being put into place. It was oiled and
refurbished and ready to go.

And then it was almost speech time, and the nation waited. They could
not have known that the Terror Trap was alive and well and about to be
elevated to a new level of prominence.

THE EARLY SUCCESS

Before analyzing the Thursday speech, let's take a look back at the
glory days of The Terror Trap. It was first assembled and used
immediately after 9/11. The Bush cartel took full advantage of a
nation stunned by tragedy to cash in on their fears. References to
terror and more terror were inserted into every major speech. Terror
alerts and terror threats were etched into the American psyche, and
the invasion of Iraq was hyped as the first major battle in the War
against Terror.

The Trap worked brilliantly, at least for a time. And then, as the
lies that led to war began to lose their luster, the strategy had to
change. The Terror Trap was put aside in favor of a series of other
justifications – each different, each deceptive, and each designed to
defend the bloodshed and the horror and the chaos in Bush's failing
war of choice. Twenty seven different rationales for Bush's war were
documented in a brilliant thesis by Devon Largio in 2004*, and each,
in turn, was accepted as reasonable by most of the nation.

It is important to note that Largio's study concluded that,
"one…rationale …became very important to official sources and the
media: the imminent threat that Iraq posed, though the words "imminent
threat" did not appear in official statements of the administration
[it] became the catch-phrase in the media and the public."

Not surprisingly, fear of another strike on American soil lured
millions of Americans into the Terror Trap. Convinced that Saddam
Hussein was a serious menace, they gave a trembling nod to the
invasion of Iraq. Every high level spokesperson in the Bush
administration had warned Americans that annihilation by mushroom
cloud or biological warfare or some other WMD was only moments away.
Aided and abetted by the corporate media, the administration used fear
of terrorism as an effective strategy to garner support for the
illegal and immoral war it had planned long before 9/11.

In their rush to war in Iraq, the Bush/PNAC war planners learned one
thing for certain: fear, however illogical, is a formidable persuader.
The Terror Trap worked like a charm the first time around. This
morning it was taken out of mothballs and set again.

SWITCHING BAIT

Thursday morning came and George Bush had a serious problem. This
speech had to win support for the war in Iraq, but that could not be
done by talking about what was really happening on the ground. So,
with a cunning sleight of hand, Mr. Bush opted NOT to talk about Iraq
at all.

He talked about terror and terrorists and plots and attacks. He talked
about evil extremists out to kill everyone, everywhere on earth, and
he talked about never backing down and never giving in and never
accepting anything less than complete victory. It was the same old,
same old.

Actually, there was nothing major, or significant, or really new in
what he said. In fact, when it was over, you had to wonder why he had
bothered making the speech at all. But then again, there had to be a
reason for the speech, - and upon taking a closer look, there it was:
the newly renovated, freshly repainted and remodeled Terror Trap.

TVNL maintains that this `major' speech given by George Bush used four
shrewd and deceptive techniques designed to create a new and expanded
justification for the Bush/PNAC wars. Each was subtly interjected to
refocus the nation's attention on a larger and far more insidious
danger they could imagine on their own. Each was cleverly woven into a
speech designed to inspire and exploit the nations fears while it said
almost nothing of substance at all.

Let's have a look.

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