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Article: Blitzkrieg: a new freedom to be feared: the US administration's developing sense of 'freedom' grants license to destroy without taking on any reciprocal responsibility. (against the current).
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- June 1, 2003
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As the Iraqi campaign drew to the end of its first phase, George W. Bush exuberantly declared: 'these are good times in the history of Freedom' and his supporters around the globe agreed. 'Freedom'--from 'they hate us for our freedom' to 'freedom (formerly French) fries'--had already become the number one piece of political kitsch in the wake of September 11, but has now become a mantra to justify almost anything. The rhetoric serves as an ideology which can be said to conceal the destructive underside of US policy. But this is the soft critique of freedom. It addresses a very familiar use of ideology. The uses of freedom today are actually more complex than this.
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Transcript: DONALD RUMSFELD SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ...
Washington Transcript Service;
April 14, 2003 ;
700+ words
... ... 2003 DEFENSE SECRETARY DONALD RUMSFELD HOLDS MEDIA AVAILABILITY ... 14, 2003 SPEAKERS: DONALD RUMSFELD SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ... respect to Operation Iraqi Freedom. I should also add ... this phase of the Iraqi freedom operations, and that ...
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