Bush and his representatives have managed in the past and continue trying now to create artificial distinctions between "patriotic" Americans (e.g., those who favored/favor the war in Iraq) and "unpatriotic" ones (e.g., those who did/do not).

This language-twisting tactic (at least three years ago) succeeded in squelching criticism of war with Iraq. Bush still calls it "unpatriotic" to oppose or even question the war. By squelching criticism at the outset, through manipulative use of words like "patriotic", Bush made it seem, at the start of the war, that opposition was both rare and wrong, e.g., "freedom-loving people should (and, at least in their minds, do) continue support war efforts in Iraq, despite no actual connection between being "freedom-loving" and supporti

Recently, in a stretch of the truth that even diehard war hawks may have questioned, Cheney insisted the insurgency was "in its last throes" (Brown & Fadel, June 23, 2005). Questioned about that assessment, Cheney explained:

because the terrorists understand if we're successful at accomplishing our

was not a policy chosen among others, but a necessity imposed by Saddam.

Nations that resisted the administration's rush to war were presented as

what you just said, that torture has taken place, or that there's been a

misperception that Iraq and Saddam were involved in the September 11th

organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the

A few months earlier than this, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld discussed Abu Ghraib with some creative language of his own:

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