Echolalia

The story

Echolalia is the meaningless repetition of words or phrases associated with forms of dementia and aphasia. In the build-up to the war in Iraq certain phrases were endlessly repeated to the point where these empty rhetorical phrases were confused with concrete facts. I tried to record as many instances of people repeating the phrase “weapons of mass destruction” as I could stand and represent these statements in a way that draws attention to the deadening effect of their repetition, however emphatically they are expressed.

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G George W. BushSelf A Ari FleischerSelf J John AshcroftSelf T Tony BlairSelf T Tariq AzizSelf C Colin PowellSelf R Richard ButlerSelf J Jeremy GreenstockSelf S Suzanne MalveauxSelf J John NegroponteSelf V Victoria ClarkeSelf P Paul WolfowitzSelf

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E Edward KennedySelf B Bill ArkinSelf J Joe BidenSelf