Operation Obfuscating Shield
In response to a Salon article recently about the lack of WMD (when did that acronym cease to be one you had to define?) found in Iraq, a letter-writer said something interesting I hadn’t thought of before.
In calling the invasion “Operation Iraqi Freedom,” the administration paved the way for the change in focus I’ve talked about, away from disarmament and toward bringing glorious democracy to the Iraqi people. Bitterly clever, really.
I would challenge anyone to find a pro-war weblog or opinion site that is even mentioning the WMD at this point. But my question is, are they not mentioning it because they know it’s an Achilles heel, or are they so taken in by the propaganda that they think it doesn’t matter?
Words mean things.