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[KroegerD at aol.com]

September 10, 2007
 
It has now crystallized for me!  It has now been made clear the  underlying 
device used by the neo conservatives to successfully advance their  agenda.
 
In his latest book, Thinking Points,  author George Lakoff gives us an  
example of “what they say” as popular cover for “what they hope to  accomplish”
 
What they say:
 Find and destroy weapons of mass destruction.
 Oust  Saddam Hussein and free the Iraqi people to establish their own 
democracy.
  Allow Iraqi Businessmen to establish a free market.
 Use the profits from  Iraqi oil to build infrastructure for the people of 
Iraq.
 Allow Iraq to  become a shining example of liberty, free markets, and 
democracy in the Middle  East.
 
What they hope to accomplish:
 Show that global order can be reshaped  to our advantage by military means, 
and show enough force to intimidate other  countries in the Middle East.
 Use the war—linked to the “war on terror”—as  a way to establish domestic 
war powers and much greater political control in the  United States for the 
president and the administration.
 Shift domestic  spending from social programs to the military, and shift 
domestic wealth to  defense contractors and the oil industry.
 Establish a controllable “client  state” government in Iraq.
 Gain access to the world’s second largest oil  reserve.
 Establish permanent military bases in the heart of the Middle East  to gain 
a strategic position, particularly with regard to Iran.
 Use the war  as a rallying call for electoral advantage in America.
 Allow American  corporations to take control of a significant portion of 
Iraq’s economy.
  Privatize military functions in order to (a) maximize the effect of 
fighting  forces, (b) increase profits for military contractors, and (c) remove  
accountability for such actions as torture and bribery.
 Establish the  dominance and independence of the United States in world 
affairs by ignoring the  will of many of our NATO allies and the UN.

 
Author Lakoff suggests that progressive values will not prevail until we  
systematically expose such devices.
 
How gullible are we?
 
Dick Kroeger
Orono, MN
952-476-6126




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