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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
With every lie, he digs his own (shallow) grave, until even history, to deny our shame, and erase our complicity, will have no place for him.
His disgrace is buried with him. You cannot shed blood without a rekoning. The blood of millions of men, women and children are on his hands and that of all his cronies, and not all the Haliburton money in the world can save them. Like the goat Judas, his end comes swiftly.
--The following I also wrote as part of another, similar thread:
Either your soul provides light in the darkness, or is part of the darkness. With this administration there seems to be a whole blanket of darkness, not just here, but on the whole world.
Thank God people are waking up to their purpose; millions of people, in their own way, are shining a light on this administration, revealing the heinous truth.
It often seems darkest just before the dawn -- even when the dawn seems a long time coming.
Anyone who starts quibbling about what "deny" meant is making excuses.
It's very clear from everything this administration has done and said that the President was not parsing words, he was sending a message to the American people: Saddam wouldn't let inspectors into his country to do inspections for WMD. Plain and simple.
That's how most people would have heard what he said, and that's the interpretation he wanted: the broadest, most categorical one. When it came to making war and making up reasons for it afterwards, this administration painted only in the broadest strokes.
I don't know why anyone is perplexed that (a) Bush & Co. lied, are still lying, and will keep repeating the same lies, or that (b) the people and the press give him a free pass. Bush & Co. are powerful, powerful men. They have political power, economic power, and since they control the government, they have the state's Monopoly of Force to back it up. Who wants to tangle with that?
230 years removed from the Revolution and we've become a nation of craven cowards who'd rather keep our heads low and our eyes averted in hopes that we can keep our jobs, cars, and cable TV (bread & circuses, people, bread & circuses). We're quite satisfied with the illusion of Freedom, so who wants the risk and work of having the real thing? Who's willing to take to the streets? Who's willing to barricade Pennsylvania Avenue? Who's will to reclaim our revolutionary heritage?
No one. That's who.
Why are they so afraid. Joe is completely right where the hell is the media. The big non - news event now is the news blackout on the Hadley memo. It is the elephant in the room. Why isn't everyone screaming about it
Quick, who said this:
"It would never come into [the masses'] heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation."
If you said Adolf Hitler, you're correct. Extra points for sourcing it to Mein Kampf.
Bush's maddening repetition (Sadaam refused to disarm... he wouldn't let the inspectors in) is a classic example of what the Nazis called the Big Lie.
During the run-up to the war, I was continually stunned by the "Sadaam must disarm" recitation. Disarm what??? And I was even more stunned that the press did not ask the same question.
Much respect to Joe Conason for doggedly keeping this outrageous story alive. And to those who think that calling for impeachment is some sort of wacko fringe behavior, try thinking a little harder.
Historians will wonder someday how a free press permitted the world's most important official to say such things without contradiction.
No, they won't. Because they'll know what we know -- that a large majority of the press is anything but free. It's been bought and paid for by large multimedia conglomorates, most of which are owned by moguls who sit politically far, far to the right, and dictate the content of their outlets' content with iron-fist-in-velvet-glove precision.
There's nothing free about most of the American Press.
~AmandaSo~
by Mark Hertsgaard detailed the media's massive suck up to the Reagan administration. And it serves as reminder of how Republicans fully understand to cow journalists.
Remember how Reagan would repeat whoppers about events he supposedly experienced which actually only happened in movies. Nobody ever called him on it, because in the end, that was Reagan.
Of course, Clinton was another kettle of fish...and I have a feeling when the Democrats get into power, the gaggle will take out their humiliation by the Bushies out on the Democrats, who actually believe in accountability and openness.
Silly us.
Republican suck-ups love to whine about "Bush haters" and thus complain about those who call the president stupid.
Well, sorry. (as if Republican strategists’ typically dishonest and sleazy smear campaigns never contained anything hateful)
But this really tops the list for personal stupidity. I mean, it's one thing to forget what one had for lunch yesterday; but to sit there and blame Saddam for not allowing inspectors when he himself was the one who withdrew them!
Whether he's lying or not, it's an incredibly stupid thing to say. To forget what happened would be pretty idiotic, but only a complete cretin would believe that nobody else notices the lie.
Guess those years of cocaine abuse left a few holes in those synapses. Hard to drink from the fount of wisdom when one's cup is a sieve.
Yes, we do have the government we deserve. Where is the outrage? Last weekend, 500,000 people took to the streets of Los Angeles...to protest the immigration bill. Why aren't they protesting the war, the lies, the tax cuts for the wealthy, no health care, etc.? Because people don't say/do anything until their basic survival is on the line. The people who I elected, the Dems, no longer speak for me either. I cringe at how spineless they've been through all this. Until people stand up in the streets or vote all the idiots out, we can expect more of the same.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Salon headlines in your mailbox
