Friday, March 24, 2006
Cakewalk
Rummy, Rummy, Rummy.
Why do Drinky and von Rumsfeld continually lie to us?
At least Rumsfeld’s lie is “subtle” enough that he might assume that the horde of misshapen things that comprise his base might not pick up on it. But, of course, to the rest of us it appears as the stinking, fetid falsehood that it really is, an insult to our intelligence and a reminder that he never predicted the insurgency, a reminder that instead of prepping us for a long, nasty war he made us believe that it would only last a brief time.
While the right will parse his words like their enemy, Bill Clinton, to show that maybe, just maybe Rummy was really talking about something else, the public that heard those words was left with the clear impression that this thing would be history in six months. And that, of course, was false.
But in their endless quest to control all of the media, not just half of it, fascists will beat up the media and cry about the negative coverage of Iraq and all other issues that they defend, like the corporate media is, somehow, the one industry in America that just hates republicans.
This has passed the point of absurdity. The war has dragged on for three years and the president seems resigned to the fact that it may drag on for three more. The New York Times ran an editorial yesterday citing reports that the war effort may cost 1 trillion in total costs when you factor in long-term care for disabled veterans and lost earnings on capital sunk into the black hole of Iraq, a price we will pay in installments for the next generation or two.
They can cry and scream all they want, but they can’t hide a three-year-long war. They can cite progress on building schools and assembling one temporary government after another, but they can’t dismiss hundreds of billions of dollars as no big deal.
This is not a “cakewalk.”
And in other news, Russia betrayed us to the Iraqis. So when do we invade?
Further proof, if we need any, that you can find a reason to invade virtually any nation on Earth. Bad governments, vague terrorism contacts, alleged WMDs, it doesn’t make a difference. All we, as citizens, can do is trust our government to use its intelligence judiciously and honestly.
This is something we can’t do with our government, an issue that doesn’t seem to phase congressional republicans at all. Where is Phase II again?
# posted by BitterHarvest @ 3:24 PM 
