necro porno con.: C. Hitchens on Sadamm's Lynching see Orwell

what? who does this really apply to! :

Necrophilia, also called thanatophilia and necrolagnia, is a paraphilia characterized by a sexual attraction to corpses. The word is artificially derived from Ancient Greek: νεκρός (nekros; "corpse," or "dead") and φιλία (philia; "love"). The term appears^[1] to have originated from Krafft-Ebing's 1886 work Psychopathia Sexualis.^[2]

Figuratively, the term "necrophilia" describes an inordinate desire to control another person, usually in the interpersonally controlling as to be better-suited to relationships with nonresponsive people.^{[citation needed]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrophilia}

fighting words: A wartime lexicon.

Lynching the Dictator On Saturday morning, the United States helped to officiate at a human sacrifice.

By Christopher Hitchens
Posted Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2007, at 1:00 PM ET

Reporting from defeated Germany in 1945, and noticing some brutal treatment of captured SS men, George Orwell wrote a brilliant essay called "Revenge Is Sour." I hadn't thought of it for a while but pulled it down from the shelf when I returned from Iraq. Here is the key passage:

Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also.

Who would not have jumped for joy, in 1940, at the thought of seeing S.S. officers kicked and humiliated? But when the thing becomes possible, it is merely pathetic and disgusting. It is said that when Mussolini's corpse was exhibited in public, an old woman drew a revolver and fired five shots into it, exclaiming, "Those are for my five sons!" It is the kind of story that the newspapers make up, but it might be true. I wonder how much satisfaction she got out of those five shots, which, doubtless, she had dreamed years earlier of firing. The condition of her being able to get near enough to Mussolini to shoot at him was that he should be a corpse.

The shabby, tawdry scene of Muqtada Sadr's riffraff taunting their defenseless former tyrant evokes exactly this quality of hysterical falsity and bravado. While Saddam Hussein was alive, they cringed. Now, they find their lost courage, and meanwhile take the drill and the razor blade and the blowtorch to their fellow Iraqis. To watch this abysmal spectacle as a neutral would be bad enough. To know that the U. S. government had even a silent, shamefaced part in it is to feel something well beyond embarrassment.

http://www.slate.com/id/2156776/pagenum/all/#page_start

If they Lied about Now, why not about the Past origins. Sa'damm's enablers

The Man, The Myth At War

The history of struggle between war and its representation has changed the way war is fought and the way we tell the stories of war. Information management, once called censorship and propaganda, has developed in tandem with new media technologies. An excerpt from A Century of Media, A Century of War by Fordham U. professor Robin Andersen.

File Under: Media, Bush, Commentary, Politics

By Robin Andersen.

The following is an exclusive excerpt from A Century of Media, A Century of War, by Fordham University Professor and Mediachannel.org supporter Robin Andersen.

Bush-era Stagecraft

One of the most stunning, real-time dramas ever staged to illustrate the glories of the victorious warrior was performed by President George W. Bush. The visual sequences featured a triumphant president dressed in a military flight suit in the cockpit of a fighter jet making a dramatic, made-for-television landing onto the deck of the aircraft carrier the U.S.S. Lincoln. A well-printed banner hung from the ship’s upper deck proclaiming “Mission Accomplished.” Explaining the million-dollar pseudo-event, the administration said the jet fighter was necessary because the carrier was too far out to sea to be reached by helicopter. In fact, the ship was so close that it had to be turned around to prevent television cameras from catching the San Diego coastline in the background.

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Table of Contents

Part 4
Terrorism, Censorship, and Patriotism: Re-Scripting Victory Culture
Chapter 15: From Tragedy to War after 9/11
Chapter 16: Black Hawk Down: The New Logics of War and Representation
Chapter 17: The Iraq ¿Reality¿ War: Embeds and Militainment
Chapter 18: The Military-Entertainment Complex: Permanent War
and the Digital Spectacular
Chapter 19: Of Smart Weapons, Civilian Casualties and the Crimes of War:
The Whole World (except the United States) Is Watching
Chapter 20: The ¿Entertainer-in Chief¿ and the Downing Street Memos
Chapter 21: The Unraveling: The Ghost of Vietnam and the Soldiers ¿Over There¿
Conclusion
from Library of USA Congress
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ISBN:	0820478938 (pbk. : alk. paper)
	0820478946 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Contents:	From victory to defeat -- The Great War and the fight between good and evil : the birth of war propaganda -- The good fight : from the first draft to the grand narrative -- The Korean War : remembering the forgotten -- Vietnam : shattered illusions -- Eyes wide shut : the not-so-secret wars of Central America and the Caribbean -- Visions of instability : telling stories on television news -- The problem of seeing and believing : empathy, denial and war’s human costs -- The office of public diplomacy : creating fear and favor -- Invading Grenada : Entebbe-style rescue, or the first preemptive strike? -- Oliver North : the war hero and the scandal -- Dover Air Force Base, press pools and the Panama invasion -- The first Persian Gulf war : the battle over access, video game imagery and smart bombs -- Trading the first amendment to defeat the "Vietnam syndrome" -- Consuming the Persian Gulf War : from baby incubators to patriot missiles -- CNN : 24 hours of war -- How the war was remembered : from Courage under fire to Saving Private Ryan -- Terrorism, censorship and patriotism : re-scripting victory culture -- From tragedy to war after 9/11 -- Black Hawk down : the new logics of war and representation -- The Iraq "reality" war : embeds and militainment -- The military-entertainment complex : permanent war and the digital spectacular -- Of smart weapons, civilian casualties and the crimes of war : the whole world (except the United States) is watching -- The "entertainer-in chief" and the Downing Street memos -- The unraveling : the ghost of Vietnam and the soldiers "over there."
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-346) and index.
Subjects:	Propaganda, American--History--20th century.
	Propaganda, American--History--21st century.

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