by Steven Poole
26 Interview with author, 18 April 2005.
27 Barber, Benjamin R., Strong Democracy (1984; California, 2004), passim.
28 Green, Philip, ‘New Texts for Government’, The Nation, 4 February 1978.
29 Amin, Samir, The American Ideology’, Al-Ahram Weekly, 15 May 2003.
30 Naess, op. cit., p. 137.
31 ‘Bush: Iraq Elections Won’t End U.S. Mission’, CNN, 29 January 2005.
32 Hersh, Seymour, ‘Get Out the Vote’, New Yorker, 25 July 2005.
33 Ibid.
34 Quoted in Hider, James, and Beeston, Richard, ‘Democracy, Bush’s Biggest Export, Faces its First Reality Check in Iraq’, The Times, 22 January 2005.
35 ‘Transcript of Bush Interview’, http://www.washingtonpost.com, 16 January 2005.
36 ‘Negroponte, Casey Call Iraqi Vote “Heroic” and “Humbling”’, US Department of State, 14 February 2005.
37 Cited in Meyer, Karl E., ‘Forty Years in the Sand’, Harper’s, June 2005.
38 Page, Susan, ‘Confronting Iraq’, USA Today, 1 April 2003.
39 Morganstein, Jonathan, ‘A Reality Check from Iraq’, Center for American Progress, 13 July 2005.
40 Bowden, Mark, ‘Wolfowitz: The Exit Interviews’, Atlantic, July/August 2005.
41 Baker, Peter, ‘History is Likely to Link Bush to Mideast Elections’, Washington Post, 9 January 2005.
42 ‘Transcript: Bush and Putin’s News Conference’, NYT (http://www.nytimes.com), 24 February 2005.
43 Marshall, Tyler, ‘Bush’s Foreign Policy Shifting’, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2005.
44 Falk, Richard, ‘Democracy Died at the Gulf, Vietnam Generation Journal, Vol. 3, No. 4, January 1992.
45 Condoleezza Rice, ‘Remarks at the Commonwealth Club’, op. cit.
46 US Department of State Daily Press Briefing, 22 April 2005.
47 Dickie, Mure, ‘Don’t Mention Democracy, Microsoft Tells China Web Users Financial Times, 11 June 2005.
48 Cited in Cook, Robin, The Point of Departure (2003; London, 2004), p. 55.
49 Mulkern, Anne C., ‘When Advocates Become Regulators’, Denver Post, 24 May 2004.
50 Skinner, Quentin, ‘Some Problems in the Analysis of Political Thought and Action’, in Tully, James (ed.), Meaning and Context: Quentin Skinner and his Critics (Cambridge, 1988), p. 113.
51 Skinner, Quentin, ‘Language as Social Change’, in Tully, op. cit., pp. 126–7.
52 Ibid., p. 127.
53 Ibid., p. 128.
54 OED, ‘economy’.
55 Hayek, op. cit., p. 30.
56 OED, ‘corporation’.
57 OED, ‘executive’.
58 ‘Leaders at Conference Tackle Strategies Against Terrorism’, DoD press release, 20 July 2005.
59 ‘President Bush Closes the White House Economic Conference’, White House, 16 December 2004.
60 ‘PM’s Speech in Reply to the Speech from the Throne (SFT)’, 5 October 2004, Canadian Parliament transcript.
61 Sanger, David E., ‘There’s Democracy, and There’s an Oil Pipeline’, NYT, 29 May 2005.
62 ‘Full text: State of the Union Address’, BBC News, 30 January 2002.
63 ‘President Bush Closes the White House Economic Conference’, White House, 16 December 2004.
64 Stevenson, Richard W, NYT, 17 December 2004.
65 Beckett, Margaret, ‘Towards Full Market Access’, Financial Times, 10 July 1997, cited in Curtis, Mark, ‘Britain and the G8’, in Hubbard, Gill, and Miller, David (eds.), Arguments Against G8 (London, 2005), p. 46.
66 Condoleezza Rice, ‘Remarks at the Commonwealth Club’, op. cit.
67 ‘Speech by Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown to the Federal Reserve Bank, New York’, HM Treasury transcript, 16 November 2001, http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/newsroom_and_speeches/press/2001/press_126_01.cfm
68 See George, Susan, ‘Trade’, in Hubbard, Gill, and Miller, David (eds.), op. cit., pp. 112–13.
69 Hilary, John, ‘Profiting from Poverty’, War on Want/PCS report, June 2005.
70 Hilary, op. cit.
71 Mann, Michael, Incoherent Empire (New York, 2003), p. 70.
72 Sands, Philippe, Lawless World (London, 2005), p. 120.
73 Thornton, Philip, and Gumbel, Andrew, ‘America Puts Iraq Up For Sale’, Independent, 22 September 2003.
74 Walker, Andrew, ‘Iraq Oil Assets “Up for Sale”’, BBC News, 23 September 2003.
75 Barboza, David, ‘Chinese Company Ends Unocal Bid, Citing Political Hurdles’, NYT, 2 August 2005.
76 ‘U.S.-Iraq Economic Commission Seeks Iraq’s Economic Revival’, US Department of State, 11 July 2005.
77 UN Security Council Resolution 1483.
78 See Harriman, Ed, ‘Where Has All the Money Gone?’, London Review of Books, 7 July 2005.
79 Waxman, Rep. Henry A., Letter to Subcommittee Chairman Shays, 20 June 2005.
80 ‘Halliburton’s Questioned and Unsupported Costs In Iraq Exceed $1.4 Billion’, report of the House Committee on Government Reform, 27 June 2005.
81 Executive Order 13303, 22 May 2003.
82 ‘President Bush Discusses Early Transfer of Iraqi Sovereignty’, White House, 28 June 2004.
83 Lukacs, John, Democracy and Populism: Fear and Hatred (London, 2005), pp. 217–18.
84 Paine, Thomas, Rights of Man: Being An Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution (London, 1791).
85 Cook, Robin, ‘Morally, This is Indefensible. Politically, it’s Plain Stupid’, Guardian, 4 March 2005, p. 28.
86 Schneider, Gregory L. (ed.), Conservatism in America Since 1930 (New York, 2003).
87 Lukacs, John, op. cit., p. 218.
88 Chomsky, Noam, Necessary Illusions (London, 1989), p. 349.
89 Blair, Tony, ‘Seven Pillars of a Decent Society’, speech in Southampton, 16 April 1997.
90 Halliday, Fred, 200 Myths About the Middle East (London, 2005), p. 58.
91 Heilbroner, Robert L., ‘Military America’, New York Review of Books, 23 July 1970.
92 Gumbel, Andrew, ‘How the War Machine is Driving the US Economy’, Independent, 6 January 2004.
93 ‘National Defense Budget Estimates for FY 2005’, DoD, March 2004.
94 Pound, Ezra, The Cantos of Ezra Pound (New York, 1972), Canto LXXIV (11 12688–90).
95 See Hambling, David, Weapons Grade (London, 2005).
96 Hamilton, Alexander, ‘Concerning Dangers from War between States’, Federalist Paper No. 6, in Hamilton, Alexander, Jay, John, and Madison, James, ed. Carey, George W., and McClellan, James, The Federalist (Indianapolis, 2001), p. 23.
Chapter 9: Extremism
1 Schmitt, Eric, and Shanker, Thorn, “U.S. Officials Retool Slogan for Terror War7, NYT, 26 July 2005.
2 Proletary, No. 22, 24 October (11), 1905; Marxists Internet Archive.
3 OED, ‘struggle’, n. 3.
4 Schmitt and Shanker, op. cit.
5 OED, ‘extreme’.
6 Lakoff, George, ‘“War on Terror”, Rest in Peace’, http://www.alternet. org, 1 August 2005.
7 ‘NRA Urges Voters to Protect Sportsmen’s Rights’, NRA, 29 March 2005.
8 Heehs, Peter, ‘Terrorism in India During the Freedom Struggle’, Historian, Spring 1993.
9 Ibid.
10 Johnson, Larry, ‘He What on Terrorism?’, TPM Café, 2 August 2005.
11 ‘President Discusses Second Term Accomplishments and Priorities’, White House, 3 August 2005.
12 ‘Rumsfeld Says Free Nations Cannot Wait for Terrorist Attacks’, US Department of State news release, 5 August 2005.
13 Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran, ‘Public Letter for the Attention of G-8 Summit in Scotland’, 30 June 2005.
14 Symonds, William C., ‘Who’s the Real Howard Dean?’, Business Week, 11 August 2003.
15 ‘Powell to Quit Bush cabinet’, BBC News, 15 November 2004.
16 ‘Loyal and Experienced: Cheney a Washington Insider With a Long Pol
itical Resume’, Democracy in America, CNN Special, 2000.
17 ‘That Was Then: Edgar Griffin’, BBC News, 29 August 2002.
18 Email to author, 27 April 2005.
19 Rutenberg, Jim, and Carter, Bill, ‘A Nation Challenged: The Media; Network Coverage a Target Of Fire From Conservatives’, NYT, 7 November 2001.
20 Roig-Franzia, Manuel, and Hsu, Spencer, ‘Many Evacuated, but Thousands Still Waiting’, Washington Post, 4 September 2005.
21 Kirkpatrick, David D., and Hulse, Carl, ‘On Social Security, Lieberman the Centrist Ruffles Democratic Feathers on the Left’, NYT, 7 March 2005.
22 Ibid.
23 Hakim, Danny, ‘CALIFORNIA/MOTOR CITY; Pollution Fight Turns From Smog to Global Warming’, NYT, 22 October 2003.
24 Froomkin, Dan, ‘Rove Questions Liberals’ Sympathies’, Washington Post, 23 June 2005.
25 Henderson, Schuyler W, M.D., email to author.
26 E.g., Christopher Hitchens, interview on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Comedy Central, 26 August 2005.
27 Iraq Liberation Act of 1998,112 Stat. 3178, Public Law 105–338, 31 October 1998.
28 Bowden, Mark, ‘Wolfowitz: The Exit Interviews’, Atlantic, July/August 2005.
29 Newsnight, BBC, 20 April 2005.
30 Woodward, Bob, Plan of Attack (London, 2004), p. 178.
31 ‘You Are Either With Us Or Against Us’, CNN, 6 November 2001.
32 ‘Talking Points Memo: Are You An Extremist?’, Fox News, 25 August 2005
Chapter 10: Epilogue
1 Steeves, Edna Leake (ed.), The Art of Sinking in Poetry: Martinus Scriblerus’ PERI BATHOUS (New York, 1952), pp. 43–4.
2 Arbuthnot, John (attrib.), Proposals for Printing A very curious Discourse, in two Volumes in Quarto, intitled, PSEUDOLOGIA POLITIKE: or, a Treatise of the Art of Political Lying, with An Abstract of the First Volume of the said Treatise (Edinburgh, 1746), p. 17.
3 Graff, Christopher, ‘Dean Says Democrats Must Take Offensive’, AP, 9 August 2005.
4 Bugarski, Ranko, ‘Discourse of War and Peace’, Folia Linguistica XXXIV/3–4, 2000.
5 Interview with author, 3 March 2005.
6 ‘Notes and Quotes from the 2000 Campaign’, AP, 29 September 2000.
7 Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism (dir. Robert Greenwald, 2004).
Index
Abbas, Mahmoud, 79, 84, 88
abortion, 1–2
‘absentees’, 82–3, 85
Abu Ghraib, 162, 165, 166, 169, 170, 171–2, 174, 176, 181
‘abuse’, 165–6, 170, 174–5, 238 see also torture
Advancement of Sound Science Coalition, 59, 60
Afghanistan: death of two prisoners at US base in Bagram, 163–5
Afghanistan war, 104, 118
Algeria, 161
Allawi, Ali, 211
Allawi, Iyad, 199
Alles, Colonel James, 116
American Civil Liberties Union, 151
American Forest Resource Alliance, 64
American Petroleum Institute, 46, 61
Amery, Julian, 128
animal-rights activists, 220–1
Annan, Kofi, 97
‘anti-social behaviour’, 7, 14–25, 35, 234
Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (Asbos), 14–15, 16, 17, 20–23, 35, 37
Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act (2001), 147
anti-terrorism legislation, 146–7
‘Apartheid wall’, 80
Applebaum, Anne, 186
Aquinas, Thomas, 72
Arafat, Yasser, 78, 83, 87, 88
Arbuthnot, John, 11, 152, 161
Arendt, Hannah, 41
Aristotle, 73, 76
Arkin, William: Code Names, 106
Armenia, 140
Armenians: massacre of in Turkey (1915), 95
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (US), 116
Art of Political Lying, The (pamphlet), 11, 236
‘art terrorists’, 151
Ashcroft, John, 186
on ‘evil biology’, 122
on inconvenience of law, 177
Asian Food Information Centre, 68–70
‘asymmetric warfare’, 162
Atiq, Johnny, as ‘present absentee’, 83
Aum Shinrikyo, 121, 202
‘author of liberty’, 192–3
‘balance’, 226–8, 234
Barak, Ehud, 84, 85, 87, 236
Barnett, Tim, 48
BBC: and global warming issue, 47
and ‘terrorists’, 140
Beckett, Margaret, 209–10
‘beehive round’, 115
Begin, Menachem, 138
Behe, Michael, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57
Darwin’s Black Box, 52
Benn, Tony, 80
Berg, Nick, 207–8
Big Bang theory, 53
Billig, Michelle, 63
bin Laden, Osama: ‘public diplomacy’ of, 9
on taxpayers’ culpability, 129
genocidal ambitions of, 137–9
on killing as speech, 151
and war on tyranny, 159–60
‘biotechnology foods’, 70
‘black community’, 28–9
Blair, Sir Ian, 77, 143–4
Blair, Tony, 5, 11, 19, 25, 26, 33, 34, 40, 215, 230
and ‘climate change’, 48
and ‘community’, 26, 30–1, 31–2
and ‘human nature’, 72
and Iraq war, 40, 141, 197, 233–4
on preciousness of security, 215
and shooting of Menezes by police, 76, 77
as train driver, 230
as true believer, 40
Blanco, Kathleen, 228
Blears, Hazel, 37
Blick, Andrew, 158
‘Blue Spoon’, 101
Blunkett, David: on being ‘swamped’, 36
facing down thugs, 38
Bodman, Samuel, 208–9
‘body politic’, 112
‘bogus asylum seekers’, 35–6
Bolton, John, 126–7, 131
bombers, 140–1
Bosnia, 92, 94, 98, 99, 100
Boucher, Richard, 134
Bourdieu, Pierre, 11
Bourgass, Kamal, 144
Bowie, David, 214
Bremer, Paul, 112
British National Party, 36, 225–6
Brown, Gordon, 33, 210
Browne, John, 48
Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 152
B’tselem, 133
Bugarski, Ranko, 94, 99, 237
Burke, Edmund, 135
Bush, George H.W., 101
Bush, George W.: ‘accountability moment’ of, 200
answer to ‘environmental issue’ of, 63
on ‘author of liberty’, 192–3
and ‘climate change’, 46, 49
comforted by books, 176
on Darfur, 97
‘democracies equal peace’, 202
eagerness to reassure markets of, 209
and ‘evil folks’, 135
and ‘faith community’, 39
and Guantánamo Bay, 186
on homosexuality, 29
and ‘human nature’, 72
and ‘intelligent design’, 49, 58
and Israeli-Palestinian conflict, 79, 85–6
on justice as subordinate to capital, 208, 214
and ‘march of freedom’, 190, 193–4
as mindful of words, 13
‘new thinking’ of, 179
not picking targets, 118
and post-war Iraq, 211, 212–13
and ‘public diplomacy’, 9, 10
and Al Qaeda, 9, 135, 136, 138, 162, 178, 179
and ‘sound science’, 60–1, 62
on ‘terrorists’ in Iraq, 141
seeking peace with fish, 238–9
and ‘war on terror’, 152–3, 156, 177–8, 186, 223–4
business, 206–8
‘business community’, 27
Bybee, General Jay S., 175, 179
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br /> redefinition of ‘torture’ by, 166–7
offering a menu, 168
paying homage to Chinese premier, 172
throwing out the laws, 178
Caldwell, Christopher, 25
California, 14–15
cancer: use of in military context, 109–10, 111
capitalism, 203–4, 206, 208, 216, 216–17
‘captain of industry’, 207
Caputo, Philip, 118
carbon-dioxide emissions, 60–1, 66
‘care in the community’, 38
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 121
‘carpet bombing’, 120–1
‘cauldron of ancient ethnic hatreds’, 98–9
CENTCOM, 104
Central America Free Trade Agreement, 210
Charles, Prince: as radical Luddite, 70–1
Chechnya, 130–1, 135, 222
Cheney, Dick, 9, 63, 64, 90
as anti-anti-torture, 175
on living in the tropics, 189
as ‘moderate’, 225
ChevronTexaco, 66
‘child abuse’, 165–6
China, 195
Chomsky, Noam, 215
Christopher, Warren, 98
Churchill, Winston, 103, 105, 106, 132
CIA, 83, 175, 187
Cicero, 11–12
‘civilian(s)’, 128–9, 131, 161
‘clarification’, 228–9
Clarke, Charles, 76, 144–5
Clean Air Act, 61
Clear Skies Act, 61
‘climate change’, 42–9
Clinton, President Bill, 232
on ‘community’, 32–3, 34
on ‘cynical calculus’, 193
not slapped in face, 97
and ‘third way’, 230
tiptoeing round cauldrons, 98
‘cluster bombs’, 115–16, 121–2
‘coalition’, 7–8
‘coalition forces’, 237
Cohen, Nick, 140–1
Cole, Juan, 89
‘collateral damage’, 116–19
Comey, James, 123
‘commodity’, 205, 215
‘common sense’, 59–60
communism, 109
‘community’, 25–32
faith, 39–41
international, 28
and nostalgia, 27
origins of term, 25–6
as ‘other’, 28–9, 31
reality-based, 40–1
and ‘tolerance’, 29
‘community charge’, 38
‘community leaders’, 30, 31
‘community support officers’, 38