:the U.S. invasion of Iraq, free markets, and the twilight of democracy
/ Stephen John Hartnett and Laura Ann Stengrim
Tuscaloosa
: University of Alabama Press,
, 2006.
xiii, 387 p.
(Rhetoric, culture, and social critique)
Bibliography
Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations and acronyms -- Introduction: globalization, empire, and the productions of violence -- "The whole operation of deception": reconstructing President Bush's rhetoric of weapons of mass destruction -- War rhetorics: the national security strategy of the United States and President Bush's globalization-through-benevolent-empire -- "It is accelerating": the rhetorics of globalization and the dilemmas of U.S. power -- Privatizing the empire: globalizing crony capitalism and the rhetoric of "Renewal in Iraq" -- Conclusion: rhetorical integrity and the twilight of democracy -- Appendix: sources of information for scholars and empowerment for activists -- Notes -- Index.
Iraq War, 2003-
Rhetoric- Political aspects- United States- History- 21st century