Comic aspects of Western Propaganda
"we are amongst the select group that embodies the "liberal and democratic traditions [that] are almost exclusively the preserve of what Winston Churchill called 'the English-speaking peoples': Great Britain and its major settler colonies," who are "leading the world toward a future of universal democracy, open markets, and collective peace."

"Executives of US oil companies are conferring with officials at the White House, the Department of Defense and the State Department to figure out how to best jump-start Iraq's oil industry following a war," Thaddeus Herrick reports in the Wall Street Journal. "With oil reserves second only to Saudi Arabia's, Iraq would offer the oil industry enormous opportunity should a war topple Saddam Hussein," an opportunity that will likely go, incidentally, to "oil services firms such as Halliburton Co., where Vice-President Dick Cheney formerly served as Chief Executive for what could be as much as $1.5 billion in contracts." But in case anyone might get the wrong idea, Larry Goldstein, "president of the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation in New York", an industry lobby group, dismisses any misconceptions: "If we go to war, it's not about oil," he explains. "But the day the war ends, it has everything to do with oil."

"The day that Hans Blix submitted his progress report to the UN, the Financial Times, citing a "senior western security official", informs us that "strong evidence of Iraq's success in hiding its WMD programme will also emerge only after foreign troops have occupied the areas in which its alleged chemical and biological weapons programmes have been carried out," ­ entrusting the foreign invading army to provide the evidence after it has taken over the country. It is unclear why the US does not simply to pass on its intelligence of these alleged areas of WMD programmes to the UN inspections regime right now. Perhaps because "US administration officials stress that just because certain sites are not operating does not mean that they will not be used for WMD production in the future," a logic that would thus have us bomb anywhere in the world if it was actually taken seriously."

Comic aspects of Western Propaganda
"we are amongst the select group that embodies the "liberal and democratic traditions [that] are almost exclusively the preserve of what Winston Churchill called 'the English-speaking peoples': Great Britain and its major settler colonies," who are "leading the world toward a future of universal democracy, open markets, and collective peace."

"Executives of US oil companies are conferring with officials at the White House, the Department of Defense and the State Department to figure out how to best jump-start Iraq's oil industry following a war," Thaddeus Herrick reports in the Wall Street Journal. "With oil reserves second only to Saudi Arabia's, Iraq would offer the oil industry enormous opportunity should a war topple Saddam Hussein," an opportunity that will likely go, incidentally, to "oil services firms such as Halliburton Co., where Vice-President Dick Cheney formerly served as Chief Executive for what could be as much as $1.5 billion in contracts." But in case anyone might get the wrong idea, Larry Goldstein, "president of the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation in New York", an industry lobby group, dismisses any misconceptions: "If we go to war, it's not about oil," he explains. "But the day the war ends, it has everything to do with oil."

"The day that Hans Blix submitted his progress report to the UN, the Financial Times, citing a "senior western security official", informs us that "strong evidence of Iraq's success in hiding its WMD programme will also emerge only after foreign troops have occupied the areas in which its alleged chemical and biological weapons programmes have been carried out," ­ entrusting the foreign invading army to provide the evidence after it has taken over the country. It is unclear why the US does not simply to pass on its intelligence of these alleged areas of WMD programmes to the UN inspections regime right now. Perhaps because "US administration officials stress that just because certain sites are not operating does not mean that they will not be used for WMD production in the future," a logic that would thus have us bomb anywhere in the world if it was actually taken seriously."