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Douglas and Stearns (Knight Ridder) April 6 2004

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Douglas, William and Matt Stearns (Knight Ridder Newspapers). "Shiite uprising pits U.S. vs. Iraqi 'allies'; Bush pledges to stay despite rebellion ." Lawrence Journal-World (Lawrence, KS: Lawrence Journal-World; http://www.ljworld.com. April 6 2004): http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2004/apr/06/shiite_uprising_pits/.

Message Unit 1 - an example of patriotized history

core myths: self-sacrifice myth				unpatriotized history: Iraq is a desirable prize. The US has wanted it for years, so now it is killing the owners, the Iraqi citizens, to get it.
message (of patriotized history): The US presence in Iraq is not something the US is doing for the US. Iraq is not a desired quantity that the US is taking for its own self-interested reasons.		patriotic change (of history): US preference reversal
technique: transparent redefinition
text: President Bush vowed Monday to stay the course in Iraq ...

Message Unit 2 - an example of patriotized history

core myths: self-defense/nonaggression myth				unpatriotized history: The US is using state military power to kill Iraqi citizens who have no state military force to defend them. Some of the Iraqi citizens are making a pathetic attempt to resist the US military by using words, homemade weapons, scrounged weapons, and their own bodies. The result is the usual and predictable bloodbath as the massively armed US troops annihilate the Iraqi citizens from positions of relative safety, while the patriotic texts try to make it look like they are doing something heroic.
message (of patriotized history): The US is confronting a powerful adversary.		patriotic change (of history): courage/cowardice reversal
technique: transparent redefinition
text: President Bush vowed Monday to stay the course in Iraq ...

Message Unit 3 - an example of patriotized history

core myths: benevolence myth				unpatriotized history: Many Iraqi citizens are trying hard to make the US leave.
message (of patriotized history): The Iraqi citizens want the US to stay in Iraq. All Iraqi citizens think the US leaving would be a bad thing, something to be afraid of.		patriotic change (of history): target's preference reversal
technique: transparent redefinition
text: [Bush]: The message to Iraqi citizens is, they don't have to fear that America will turn and run.

Message Unit 4 - an example of patriotized history

core myths: self-sacrifice myth				unpatriotized history: The US wants the US to stay in Iraq until it has established a force capable of killing any Iraqi who doesn't submit to US-led forces.
message (of patriotized history): For the US, staying in control of Iraq is not a selfish act, is not something it is doing in its own self-interest.		patriotic change (of history): US preference reversal
technique: transparent redefinition
text: [Bush]: The message to Iraqi citizens is, they don't have to fear that America will turn and run.

Message Unit 5 - an example of patriotized history

core myths: self-sacrifice myth				unpatriotized history: The US is using its state military to target Iraqi citizens who have no state military to defend them.
message (of patriotized history): The US is facing a powerful adversary.		patriotic change (of history): courage/cowardice reversal
technique: transparent redefinition
text: [Bush]: The message to Iraqi citizens is, they don't have to fear that America will turn and run.

Message Unit 6 - an example of patriotized history

core myths: benevolence myth				unpatriotized history: The people the US is trying to kill are Iraqi citizens.
message (of patriotized history): The people the US is trying to kill are not Iraqi citizens.		patriotic change (of history): identity shift
technique: transparent redefinition
text: [Bush]: The message to Iraqi citizens is, they don't have to fear that America will turn and run.

Message Unit 7 - an example of patriotized history

core myths: self-sacrifice myth				unpatriotized history: What the US is doing in Iraq is something the US is doing for the US.
message (of patriotized history): What the US is doing in Iraq is not something the US is doing for the US.		patriotic change (of history): US preference reversal
technique: transparent redefinition
text: [Bush]: If they think that we're not sincere about staying the course ...

Message Unit 8 - an example of patriotized history

core myths: benevolence myth				unpatriotized history: Lots of Iraqis don't want the US to do what it is doing in Iraq. Some of them are even trying to resist the US.
message (of patriotized history): What the US is doing in Iraq is something that the Iraqis want.		patriotic change (of history): target's preference reversal
technique: transparent redefinition
text: [Bush]: If they think that we're not sincere about staying the course ...

Message Unit 9 - an example of patriotized history

core myths: freedom-pushing myth				unpatriotized history: The US project is to impose US rule on the Iraqi citizens, killing as many of them as is necessary to intimidate the rest into submission to US-led forces.
message (of patriotized history): The US project is to bring freedom and democracy to the Iraqi citizens.		patriotic change (of history): mastery/sovereignty shift
technique: transparent redefinition
text: [Bush]: freedom and democracy

Message Unit 10 - an example of patriotized history

core myths: benevolence myth				unpatriotized history: The US is using its state military force against Iraqi citizens who have no state military force to protect them.
message (of patriotized history): The US is not using force.		patriotic change (of history): violence redefinition
technique: transparent redefinition
text: [Bush, referring to al Sadr:] rather than allow democracy to flourish, he's going to exercise force

Message Unit 11 - an example of patriotized history

core myths: freedom-pushing myth				unpatriotized history: The US is doing tyranny. Democracy says the people who decide who lives and dies in a territory must be unelectable by the people over whom they exercise this power. It also says those people must be free to run in elections for the people who make these decisions. Democracy says that the Iraqis have the right to vote in and run in US elections.
message (of patriotized history): The US is doing democracy.		patriotic change (of history): mastery/sovereignty shift
technique: transparent redefinition
text: [Bush, referring to al Sadr:] rather than allow democracy to flourish, he's going to exercise force

Message Unit 12 - an example of patriotized history

core myths: law-abiding myth				unpatriotized history: US actions are crimes. The US takes over other people's countries and kills many of the citizens in an attempt to intimidate the rest of them into submission. Calling these actions "unilateral" is like calling armed bank robbery a "unilateral approach to savings management." It's laughable.
message (of patriotized history): US actions are not crimes; they are just unilateral.		patriotic change (of history): authority shift
technique: transparent redefinition
text: Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate, criticized Bush's unilateral approach to Iraq and foreign policy ...

Message Unit 13 - an example of patriotized history

core myths: benevolence myth				unpatriotized history: The US is attacking Iraqi citizens as part of its rule of their country.
message (of patriotized history): The US is not attacking the Iraqi citizens; instead, what is going on in Iraq is rising instability.		patriotic change (of history): attack-response reversal
technique: transparent redefinition
text: ...the spreading instability in Iraq...

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