Robert Gates

The twisting of language is one of the most fundamental traits of George Bush's policy legacy. His notoriety for being a bad orator is what has made him the perfect neo-con President because he's the perfect mouthpiece for their rhetoric.

This Bush administration trait became too obvious while watching Robert Gates and Condoleeza Rice's morning press conference. I failed to transcribe their speeches, because I found myself lost on sound-bites that seemed too Machiavellian to take at face value.

So here's a list of some of those memes :

• the forces are going to be phased in
• national reconciliation process
• violence spills
• destabilizing forces
• a little time
• lessening of violence
• reconstruction from the grassroots up
• national oil laws
• Iraqis in the lead
• an Iraqi iniative
• long war against terrorism
• world-wide war against terrorism
• the consequences of failure

Of course, my favorite line for deconstruction is "we will support their decisions but our patience is running out".

It's obvious the Bush administration wants a dummy government that makes it seem they have control over the rule of law over the whole country. This ruse makes it easier for the US oil corporations government to have one country and one "national oil law" to deal with in the future.