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| The elephant metaphor: sucking
in our tax dollars and pumping out a ‘bunch of baloney.” |
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| Ready for action. |
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| Donald Rumsfeld was one of the
signatories to The New American Century Project’s June 3, 1997, Statement
of Principles and a prime perpetrator of war crimes featuring a particularly
cavalier attitude toward torture. |
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| Dick Cheney, another Statement
of Principles signer, in placed among the logos for Halliburton and its
subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown & Root. Long before it constructed Guantanamo
Bay or provided military support in Iraq, KBR built the tiger cages at Con
Sol Island in Vietnam. Below Cheney is a map of Guantanamo and depictions
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| The elephant’s left hind
leg is below Condelizza Rice expressing her view of the size of her adversary
right above a shot of an alert German Shepard placed within rolls of razor
wire. The inside of the leg depicts one of the administrations biggest propaganda
organs, Rev. Moon’s Washington Times. The wrap-around the back starts
with Katherine Harris, who helped hand Bush the first election and the some
of the Supreme Court justices that overrode the will of the majority of
Voters in the 2000 presidential election. |
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More than a little dirt lies behind an elephant’s ear. Here we
have the Fox News logo, another administration propaganda disseminator.
At the bottom is Bill O’Reilly, a person who specializes in bullying
people with whose opinions he disagrees. In the middle is Ralph Reed, formerly
of the Christian Coalition and now Republican Party honcho.
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| This broadside includes John
Negroponte (10 o’clock), U.S. Ambassador to Honduras in the 1980s
who turned a blind eye to that country’s death squads and who is now
Ambassador to Iraq; loved ones outside of Abu Grhaib prison in Iraq (12
o’clock) above the infamous Iraqi prisoner who is flanked by images
of Halliburton oil rigs, torture justification author John Loo and Elliot
Abrams, convicted of lying to Congress in connection with Iran-Contra, New
American Century signatory and Bush administration official. |
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The elephant’s right ear features the U.S.A. Patriot
Act, the Lear jet employed for the “extraordinary renditioning”
of “enemy combatants” to Egypt for torturing, an eye- ball for
retinal scanning and another oil rig.
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| Venturing into the larger society, the mighty
elephant enslaved by psychopoliticians as an unwilling propagandist, cries
out for liberation. As do all true Americans, indeed, all true human beings. |
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| The propaganda, also known
as “perception management,” would not take root unless the “authorities”
holding forth on T.V constantly reinforced it. |
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| Examples of some of the propaganda
themes used for “perception management” of the American population
including “God guides the president” “Iraq possesses nuclear
weapons” and “Fleet of robot planes set to disperse chemical
weapons worldwide.” |
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| More baloney: “Climate
change does not exist,” “Dissenters are traitors” “Our
safety from terrorism requires torture” “Iraq and al qaeda work
together” and “Iraq refused U.N. Inspectors” |
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| What a bunch of baloney! “911
= Iraq” “safety = no constitution” |
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| Karl Rove at the elephant butt,
thumbing his nose at the world. |
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