Rumsfeld / Iraq, no weapons of mass destruction

As told 3

“no problem, there are no weapons of mass destruction in iraq.”
11:24 Great Minds2011-07-01 · 1:30:44

“No problem, there are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Let's just attack it.”
17:10 2011 as „The Year of Dreaming Dangerously“2012-04-25 · 1:47:37

“No problem, there are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, no?”
12:31 A New Kind of Communism2011-11-02 · 56:49

What it carries

one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)

contents · one story, 3 jobsuses

differentiality ×1 determinate negation ×1 ideology as implicit meaning ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Zygmunt Bauman1 Francis of Assisi1 Herbert McCabe1 Condoleezza Rice1 Arthur Conan Doyle1 Alec Baldwin1 Terrence Malick1 Ewan McGregor1

alongside works

Trauer und Melancholie1 Silver Blaze2 Wrath of Titans1 The Tree of Life1 After the Empire1 God in Pain1 Capitalism as Religion1 The Lost Symbol2

Told together with

40% Sherlock Holmes and the dog 2 shared talks 25% Polish socialist store, no butter, no toilet paper 2 shared talks 20% Breivik: anti-semitic and pro-Zionist simultaneously 2 shared talks 18% James Bond Quantum of Solace, no sex at the end 2 shared talks 14% Da Vinci Code / Da Vinci, sex displaced onto Jesus 2 shared talks 12% Organic apples as ideology 2 shared talks 11% Brassed Off coffee invitation 2 shared talks 6% coffee without cream / coffee without milk 3 shared talks 6% Starbucks ethical consumerism 2 shared talks

Every retelling 3

11:24 Great Minds2011-07-01 · 1:30:44

The US tells Europe: join the search for WMD in Iraq. Europe says it has no facility for that. America replies: no problem, there are no WMD in Iraq. The same logic of the absent negation applies, the absence of the thing to be found matches the absence of the means to find it., illustrating differentiality,ideology and the Iraq War

17:10 2011 as „The Year of Dreaming Dangerously“2012-04-25 · 1:47:37

Žižek imagines a 'Brassed Off' version of the Iraq invasion: Rumsfeld invites Europeans to join the search for WMDs; Europeans say they have no facilities; Rumsfeld says no problem, there are no WMDs anyway, let's just attack., illustrating coffee without cream / coffee without milk,ideology of the Iraq War,negation and substitution

12:31 A New Kind of Communism2011-11-02 · 56:49

Žižek recasts the run-up to the Iraq invasion as a Brassed Off dialogue: the US asks Europe to join the search for WMD; Europe demurs; Rumsfeld's 'sexual' answer is that there are no WMD anyway., illustrating ideology as the unsaid,double negation in politics