{"id":1522,"date":"2003-04-24T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-25T00:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2003-04-24T20:42:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-25T00:42:00","slug":"they-set-up-us-the-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/04\/24\/20\/42\/they-set-up-us-the-bomb\/","title":{"rendered":"They Set Up Us The Bomb!"},"content":{"rendered":"

They seek them here… They seek them there… This is a good roundup of the absurdity of the present “WMD Search” in Iraq<\/a>… which actually seems to consist of the US doing nothing and hoping everyone forgets about the claims of “450 tons” of WMDs ready to be launched “within 45 minutes”. I note that the former Saddamist regime in Iraq had to be forced through the will of the international community to admit the UN weapons inspectors, and in a weird echo that the current US occupation regime is similarly banning the mandated UN weapons inspectors<\/a> from completing their survey of Iraq. My interpretation of the UN weapons inspection process is that it was tied to the territory of Iraq and not any particular regime… because if it was that simple then a quick Government shuffle in Iraq in the 90s would have invalidated the UN inspection mandate. Of course, the Bush Gang are desperately trying to rewrite the international law books to somehow manage to arbitrate debt negation, UN mandate negation, and economic sovereignty and tie them to specific political actors, rather than countries. This smacks so much of the “right of kings” and an Imperial Presidency that it’s unsettling, and profoundly anti-democratic. These people really are<\/i> trying to carve out an Empire and plunge the world back to the gross, militaristic instability of the early 20th century. This is government through anger, and right through force. Hmmm, let me think, what was the definition of fascism<\/i> again?<\/p>\n

Fascism
\nEtymology: Italian fascismo, from fascio bundle, fasces, group, from Latin fascis bundle & fasces fasces
\n1 : often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
\n2 : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And then of course, there was that other political fad popular during the Progressive Era of the 1890s, the seed for fascism, corporatism:<\/p>\n

corporatism
\n: the organization of a society into industrial and professional corporations serving as organs of political representation and exercising some control over persons and activities within their jurisdiction<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s all becoming clear<\/a> to me now, as I see how Iraq is a being “restructured” as a beta-test for 21st century corporatism<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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