Some years ago I stated that our language is our means to coordinate our civil behavior[2]; therefore, any language used to divide people is uncoordinated and uncivilized. And this is my point, the Bush administration has divided people at home and abroad and therefore this Bush administration is an uncivilized and lying administration[3].

I am disgusted when I hear that American ‘abuses’ at Abu Ghraib prison are the results of the actions of few bad apples, and when I hear instead that the torture and killings of foreigners in Iraq are the results of the actions of Islamic barbarians[4].

When are we going to learn that our collective behaviour must not follow the credo: TIT for TAT[5]? On a personal level, I even discount this credo by telling my sons to respond intelligently to the abuse of a TAT.

Today’s Bush’s language is worse than being politically correct, it is an outright sequence of accumulated lies, which is undermining the balanced coordination of power between the President, Congress and the Justice Department[6].

Bush has hijacked the power to declare war from Congress as he has declared a permanent war against terrorism, and Bush has hijacked the right to be a citizen as he has created the new term "unlawful enemy combatant" for the Justice Department. Former vice-president Al Gore explains that Bush’s best law is no law.

I welcome Friday's release of Michael Moore’s documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" in more than 900 theatres across the United States[7]. The end of Bush’s lies is finally getting closer.

References

1. Lobe, Jim Bush Team Tries to Brazen It Out June 19, 2004 Antiwar http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=2840

2. deSantis, Mario Our Freedom: Languaging and Putting People Before Money (and War) September 24, 2001 Ensign http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2001_400/desantis436/language.html

3. Misleader The Daily Mislead Archives http://www.misleader.org/daily_mislead/archive.asp

4. Fancher, Bill and Chad Groening Bauer: Despite Prison Abuse, U.S. Retains 'Moral High Ground' in Iraq. Also, More Criticism of Media's Treatment of Prison Abuse vs. Murder of American Civilian May 14, 2004 Agape Press, http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/5/142004b.asp

5. Joan Chittister Thinking can be a very dangerous thing these days June 24, 2004 National Catholic Reporter http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/fwis/pc062404.htm

6. Gore, Al Democracy Itself is in Grave Danger June 24, 2004 CommonDreams.org, http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0624-15.htm

7. Shenon, Philip Is Michael Moore telling the truth? June 26, 2004 New York Times, http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/06/25/1088144982454.html

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