"Insurgents" Are Now "Al Qaeda"

Similar to the way any dead vietnamese were "Vietcong" 4o years ago. To be honest I'm still not even certain that "Al Qaeda" wasn't created as a convenient bogeyman. Here's Glenn Greenwald:

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McClatchy reports on shift in Iraq propaganda

"But let us focus on the underlying and most significant point of all of this. This sudden shift in describing the "enemy" in Iraq as "Al Qaeda" is the by-product of a very familiar information-producing system: namely, the administration formulates narratives, the President announces them, his top officials and military commanders recite them endlessly, and then establishment "journalists" not only write them down, but rely exclusively -- and uncritically -- on those narratives to report events. As I noted on Saturday, particularly in the Update citing the work of other bloggers who have been tracking this rhetorical shift for several months, this is exactly how the transformation of the "War in Iraq" into the newly unveiled "U.S. War Against Al Qeada" was manufactured and disseminated.

Whatever else is true, all of these new reports about the glorious victories we are achieving against "Qaeda fighters" in Iraq are the by-product of this exact system. These reports rely exclusively, or overwhelmingly, on the claims of military commanders selected by the Bush administration to communicate "information" to the media."
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On a very related and scary note, 41% of Americans just polled STILL believe that Iraq was involved in 9/11. WTF! 41%? Did they happen to only poll Faux News watchers? Now that's scary. It's gotta make the propagandists at Bushco and in their corporate "news" media(cough, Fox, cough, CNN, etc.) very happy though. A lie repeated often enough...

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