to rev up some hysteria about whatever group of foreigners Bush wants to attack next. To effectively conduct a war you have to dehumanize the other side first, like we did to the Japanese and Germans in WWII.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1818014&mesg_id=1818014Some examples (with my changes to fit the Iranians):
"Go ahead & have all the compassion for the filthy greedy bastards you want. They have brought it on themselves "collectively" together, as one.
BTW, I couldn't care less what you think of me, so go ahead, insult me all you want, give it all you got." (No change needed).
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"The whole place is a god damned virus. It's completely out of control. And we feed the monster." (No change)
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"It's the Maoist communist (Islamic fundamentalist) system. It's billions (millions) of people in lockstep. They're marching straight ahead we (sic - "with") eyes wide open right over a cliff."
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"Imagine that, billions (millions) of people caged without any free will at all. ... If it's so bad then they ought to have a revolt,god knows they know how to do it with a vengeance. To the contrary, you know as well as I do that in spite of any possible pollution (terrorism) or any other form of inhumanity that most of them have never had it so good."