In Bush’s America psychological warfare aims to

indoctrinate the public into a jingoistic acceptance

of a perpetual state of war

that will produce a totalitarian regime

headed by a Commander-in-Chief who is

nothing more than a military dictator

The core doctrine of the Bush Era is pre-emptive war

When Bush argues for the right to wage war to prevent war,

he invokes Orwellian Doublethink by holding

two contradictory beliefs simultaneously

while believing both of them:

that war is undesirable

while a war to prevent war is desirable

War propaganda glorifies military indoctrination as the highest form of patriotism while simultaneously demonizing the enemies of the state.

Modern governments employ propaganda to incite public outcries for war in order to advance their agendas in foreign policy.

War propaganda is abundantly evident in the fabric of our culture, and it presents no symptoms of weakness or dissipation.

Quite the opposite is true.

The primary purpose of war propaganda is to manufacture public commitment to wars and their inevitable crimes.

In Bush’s America psychological warfare aimed directly at the American public is designed to manufacture the political platform to launch a perpetual state of war that will produce a totalitarian regime headed by a Commander-in-Chief who is nothing more than a military dictator.

“Perception management” is another term used to describe the process of transforming public opinion to conform to a premeditated political agenda. Perception management establishes underlying trends and tendencies that drive the public perception of events in the direction of war.

During war, perception management manipulates public opinion to accept the horrific nature of war crimes as merely nothing more than collateral damage, friendly fire and accidental mishaps that are inevitable consequences of the fog of war.

Psychological warfare training in Bush’s America has reached historic proportions.

Social influence, perception management and a full range of persuasion techniques have permeated the American government and are now deeply embedded into the fabric of official culture—especially the US military.

The purpose of psychological warfare is to manufacture public support for Bush’s wars and for future wars as well as strengthening the powers of the state while demonizing the enemies of the Bush-Cheney regime.

Concomitant with these assignments, psychological warfare camouflages the most horrific war crimes and makes them seem to be acts of virtue and valour that are absolutely essential for military, “Victory.”

Language lies at the heart of propaganda

In the twentieth century, George Orwell emerged as one of the leading philosophers of the Machaivellian abuse of political language. Orwell wrote his classic dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and he introduced his theories of Doublethink and Newspeak.

Orwell defined Doublethink as, “... the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. ....To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them.”

Orwell realized that the totalitarian state would redefine the purposes of language. Newspeak allows a leader to wage psychological warfare to manage the political perceptions of the populace.

He wrote, “The purpose of Newspeak was to eliminate the possibility of thoughtcrime...to make all other modes of thought impossible. It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted...a heretical thought should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words.”

For Orwell, the Machiavellian political abuse of language had distorted society into an increasingly malevolent form of tyranny.

He wrote, “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.”

In the future envisioned by Orwell, Newspeak and Doublethink would eradicate the possibility of protest, sedition, insurgency and rebellion against the state.

Bush & Doublethink

In the first years of the twenty-first century, Doublethink has become the hallmark of the Bush Era.

George Bush, Dick Cheney and their minions in Washington adopted Doublethink and Newspeak to coerce and impel political acceptance of their outrageous policies of perpetual war promulgated by a reactionary totalitarian government that is indistinguishable from the fascism and Nazism of the early twentieth century.

The core doctrine of the Bush Era is pre-emptive war. When Bush argues for the right to wage war to prevent war, he invokes Orwellian Doublethink by holding two contradictory beliefs simultaneously while believing both of them: that war is undesirable while a war to prevent war is desirable.

The contradiction activating the Bush Doctrine is invisible to Bush, Cheney and their minions in Washington and elsewhere, for they too are the victims of Doublethink.

In academic discourse, the Bush Doctrine of pre-emptive war has been equated with the idea of committing suicide because of the fear of dying.

In the Bush Era, the American public are bombarded by a continuous stream of propaganda designed to elicit their political support for perpetual war and war crimes.

As well as for a strong, centralized government headed by a President who is little more than his ceremonial title indicates, a Unitary Executive functioning as Commander-in-Chief who is indistinguishable from a military dictator.

Manufacturing consent for perpetual war is
the primary enterprise of the Bush-Cheney regime

Bush’s propaganda engines of perpetual war are driven by: xenophobia; the demonisation of immigrants; fears of foreign cultures—especially Muslims—and the persistent application of fear and terror to the body politic.

The Bush White House governs by public relations. Tony Snow—a former news presenter for the right-wing Fox News Network—has become the official spokesman for the Bush-Cheney White House, revealing the priority of propaganda to the political objectives of the Bush regime.

The blatant perception management and propaganda of the totalitarian regime is abundant, clear and constant.

For example, Dick Cheney adopted the Hitlerian technique of the big lie to launch the Iraq War, when he promised the American people, “I’m confident that our troops will be successful, and I think it’ll go relatively quickly...Weeks rather than months.”

Swiftly after the horrific tragedy of 9/11, Bush defined the thoughtcrime of today by stating, “Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists.”

Long a central theme in the fire and brimstone culture of American evangelical Christianity, the demonization of Muslims has exploded into the mainstream of western civilization.

The modern state demonizes its opponents in order to manufacture public consent for war. In the Bush Era, the demonization of Muslims has been constant.

Long a central theme in the fire and brimstone culture of American evangelical Christianity, the demonization of Muslims has exploded into the mainstream of western civilization. Michael Carmichael @ Global Research