March 17, 2006 -- Bush regime re-emphasizes perpetual war doctrine. Yesterday, the Bush regime unveiled its "National Security Strategy of the United States of America." The 49-page strategy identifies additional nations that are considered enemies of, and, therefore, threats to the United States. The strategy reserves the right for the United States to preemptively attack these nations. Time magazine's Matt Cooper (remember him from Scooter Libby infamy?) laughably argues the White House document is only theoretical and not binding. Similar neo-con doctrine was used to justify the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. Few U.S. troops in the field in Iraq and Afghanistan would argue the neo-con policy is "theoretical." Nations identified as threats to the U.S. and worthy of a U.S. invasion so their "despotic" governments can be replaced with "democracies," a code word for a sudden influx of depleted uranium weapons and bunker buster bombs, pedophiliac and sado-masochistic jailers and interrogators, "Christian" missionaries, private mercenaries and brigands, political show trials of vanquished political leaders, looting of museums and treasuries, embedded "prostitute" journalists, and infrastructure "repair" (U.S. military base construction) companies like Halliburton and Bechtel, include Iran, North Korea, Zimbabwe, Myanmar, Cuba, Belarus, and Syria. There are also warning shots in the report fired at China and Russia.



Are depleted uranium weapons, bunker busters, theft of priceless art, and pedophiliac jailers in Havana's future (and those of Pyongyang, Damascus, Yangon, Harare, Tehran, and Minsk)?

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The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed -- if all records told the same tale -- then the lie passed into history and became the truth. "Who controls the past," ran the Party slogan, "controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your memory. "Reality control," they called it; in Newspeak, "doublethink."

--George Orwell, 1984

[The Bush regime and the neo-cons call it "perception management"]