El-Tawassol التواصل
Volume 27, Numéro 1, Pages 468-482
2021-06-30

Investigating The Discursively Constructed Nexus Between Al Qaeda And Iraqi Regime In President G. W. Bush’s “axis Of Evil” Speech



Authors : Benmerabet Naime . Zeghoudi Yahia .

Abstract

This article investigates the discursively constructed adequation between Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq, which is encoded in the speech of US President George W. Bush on “the axis of evil." It probes the choices and the enactment of transitivity processes utilized by the US President to concoct and stitch relations of moral equivalence, conspiratorial security ties and ideological concurrence between Al Qaeda and Iraqi regime in order to rationalize the ultimate invasion of Iraq. The study is conducted through the lens of Norman Fairclough's three-dimensional framework of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA).

Keywords

President G. W. Bush, “axis of evil” Speech, Fairclough's CDA paradigm, the War on Terror, Al Qaeda organization, Iraqi regime.

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