George W. Bush's perpetual war

George Orwell's most famous book, 1984, contains "a warning about a futuristic totalitarian government that controls the public by spreading propaganda, monitoring citizens, changing language and rewriting history. In 1984 Oceania is in perpetual war. The enemy may regularly change but the state is always at war. And there seems to be no end." [1]

"The message came through loud and clear" in President George W. Bush's January 31, 2006, State of the Union speech: "prepare for perpetual war," Justin Raimondo wrote February 6, 2006.

The U.S. Air Force reinforces this plan in Press Release No. 130206 dated February 27,2006, stating "The transfer will allow AFSOC, the air component to U.S. Special Operations Command, to focus on the continually expanding special operations mission in the Global War on Terror."

Also see related

• Bush doctrine
• fear
• global struggle against violent extremism (G-SAVE)
• Global War on Terror (GWOT)
• The Long War
• The Power of Nightmares
• National Security State
• war on terrorism

Publications

• Gore Vidal, "Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace. How We Got To Be So Hated," Nation Books, 2002 (ISBN 156025405X).

External links

• "The Perpetual War Portfolio," Rational Enquirer website.

2001

• Stan Goff, "A Summary of Thoughts on the Infinite War," neravt.com, October 14, 2001.

2002

• Ruth Rosen, "Preparing for Perpetual War," San Francisco Chronicle (Common Dreams), March 4, 2002.
• Ted Rall, "Why Bush Is Addicted to Perpetual War," AlterNet, March 19, 2002.
• Stan Goff, "The Infinite War and its Roots," From the Wilderness (GlobalResearch (Canada)), August 21, 2002.
• Amanda Bowen, "Perpetual War," Strike the Root, September 3, 2002.
• Henry McDonald, "This perpetual war. Fanaticism will always ignite the flames of violence," The Observer (UK), September 15, 2002.
• Ronald Bleier, "Invading Iraq: The Road to Perpetual War," DESIP, October 2002.
• Alan F. Kay, Ph.D., "Perpetual War ~ #10," The Polling Critic (Center for Defense Information), October 9, 2002.

2003

• Robert Gaiek, "A Vietnam Vet Against Bush and Perpetual War," Dissident Voice, March 15, 2003.
• Editorial: "Perpetual War, Waste," Madison Capital Times (Wisconsin) (Common Dreams), September 8, 2003.
• Danny Postel, "Noble lies and perpetual war: Leo Strauss, the neo-cons, and Iraq," openDemocracy (Information Clearinghouse), October 18, 2003.
• Manuel Valenzuela, "Perpetual War, Perpetual Terror," Information Clearinghouse, December 16, 2003.

2004

• Harley Sorenson, "Fear Trumps Freedom In A Perpetual War," San Francisco Chronicle, January 19, 2004.

2005

• David Johnston and Linda Greenhouse, "Legal authority for policy rests on interpretation. Congress approved vaguely worded sentence after 9/11," New York Times (San Francisco Chronicle), December 20, 2005.

2006

• Donna Miles, "Bush: Progress Continues in Terror War, But Threat Remains," American Forces Press Service, January 23, 2006.
• Justin Raimondo, "Prepare for Perpetual War. The real State of the Union," Antiwar.com, February 6, 2006.
• Justin Raimondo, "Masters of Deception. And now for the real news…," Antiwar.com, February 15, 2006.