War against Humanity -- who owns it?

"Iraq has become the central front in al-Qaeda's "war against humanity", President George W Bush said on Wednesday, while acknowledging foreigners were the smallest part of the Iraqi insurgency."

Here we go. This is more than just dehumanizing the enemy. This is literal demonizing. "Terra-ists" -- well that's a useful catch-all button. "Ragheads" -- that's sooo nineties. "Haji" -- that's a local thing...

But now we got ourselves a "WAR AGAINST HUMANITY"!!! This is Hugh!!!11!!

In addition to being shameless hyperbole, could this also be a desperate use of fundie code implying something more diabolical? Bush's speech writers have used fundie code many times before. Does this phrase fit the bill?

:hippie:

Any thoughts?

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1843246,00.html

and if they are not human, then we can do whatever we want to them.

Right?

That sounds like the implied logic to me. A little spooky.

Calling them terrorists or rag-heads is one thing. It turns them into extras in a movie, or "bad guys" in a video game, but to imply these people are outside humanity working to (what?) destroy civilization (???) -- well that raises flags and trips alarms for me.

Many Americans are conditioned to be indiscriminate about what memes they allow to slip past their personal censors. On an extremely subtle level, this kind of rhetoric just pushes back the boundaries of what people are willing to consider possible -- or true.

It seems like every day the Bush Administration tries to find ways to take the level of propaganda and absurdity up a notch.

And they usually are successful

I think it is fundy code for Muslims. They want to have a holy war between Islam and Christianity. Won't work because they aren't really Christian, imho.

So you think it's a "Crusade" revival going on here. Mmm. Could be. But do the christo-fascists believe that Muslims are trying to destroy "humanity"? That would mean they are tools of evil forces without conscience or humanity themselves. What evil forces are these "godless" Muslims supposedly in thrall to?

I have no clue :)

The war against Iraq is a war of aggression, which the U.N. Charter defines as a "crime against humanity." Looks like the U.S. owned that one first.

Oh the irony...the irony.

:cry:

They are definitely waging a war against humanity.