"manufacture a short-term improvement in the economy"Re: "...President Bush will have to 'manufacture' another threat..."

The title should read: manufacture a short-term improvement in the economy"
as Reagan did in 83.

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> War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.
>
>    Reuters
>
>    Wednesday 29 October 2003
>
>  (Reuters) - U.S. linguist and political dissident Noam Chomsky
> said on Wednesday that President Bush will have to "manufacture" another
> threat to American security to win reelection in 2004 after U.S failure in
> occupying Iraq.
>
>    Chomsky, attending a Latin American social sciences conference in Cuba,
> said that since the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, the Bush
> administration had redefined U.S. national security policy to include the
> use of force abroad, with or without U.N. approval.
>
>    "It is a frightened country and it is easy to conjure up an imminent
> threat," Chomsky said at the launching of a Cuban edition of a book of
> interviews published by the Mexican newspaper La Jornada, when asked how
> Bush could get reelected.
>
>    "They have a card that they can play ... terrify the population with
> some invented threat, and that is not very hard to do," he said.
>
>    After the "disaster" of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Bush could turn his
> sights on Communist-run Cuba, which his administration officials have
> charged with developing a biological weapons research program, the
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor of linguistics said.
>
>    Chomsky said the military occupation of Iraq, to topple a "horrible
> monster running it but not a threat to anyone," was a failure.
>
>    "The country had been devastated by sanctions. The invasion ended
> sanctions. The tyrant is gone and there is no outside support for domestic
> dissidence," he said. "It takes real talent to fail in this endeavor."
>
>    Chomsky said it was reasonable to assume the Bush administration would
> try to "manufacture a short-term improvement in the economy" by incurring
> in enormous federal government debt and "imposing burdens on future
> generations."
>
>    The Bush administration was a continuation of the Ronald Reagan
> presidency that declared a national emergency over the threat posed by
> Nicaragua's leftist government in the 1980s, he said.
>
>    "The same people were able to present Grenada as a threat to survival
of
> the United States the last time they were in office," Chomsky said, in
> reference to the U.S. invasion of the Caribbean island in 1983 to thwart
> Cuban influence.
>
>    Chomsky, a leftist icon who is better known today for his critique of
> U.S. foreign policy that for his revolutionary theory of syntax and
grammar
> in the 1960s, gave a lecture on the U.S politics of domination on Tuesday
> night that was attended by Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
>
>    The author of "Language and mind," "Manufacturing Consent," "Profit
Over
> People" and "9-11" said the Bush administration was out to dominate the
> world by the use of military force if need be, and Iraq was the first
test.
>
>    Chomsky criticized Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar for backing
> the United States and Britain in invading Iraq under a false pretext that
> the Arab country possessed weapons of mass destruction.
>
>    Chomsky praised Cuba's defiance of U.S. hostility and trade sanctions
> for four decades. But he also criticized the jailing of 75 Cuban
dissidents
> earlier this year by Castro's government.
>
>    "Yes, I have criticized them for that," he said in an interview on
> August 28 with Radio Havana.
>
>
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