The effort to reactively associate Iraq with Al Qaeda was pretty flimsy. Semantically it was a flood of "guilt by contextual association".

Of course, the rhetoric is self-supporting. Buy the picture, and you buy the strategy. No-one said fascism had to be stupid.

Listen all you fascists
I'm gonna put you wise
People of this world
Are getting organized
Bound to lose,
You're bound to lose
All you fascists
Are bound to lose.

By the way...

The italicized segment belongs to Woodie Guthrie.



A