Monday, May 30, 2005
Georgie's Lies, Blood, and Blame.
The Star Tribune up in Minneapolis has a little editorial that takes exception to Georgie's little war in Iraq. While Minnesota has been "liberal" for quite a while, they aren't the uber-urbanized kind place that New York, or New Jersey, or Massachusetts, or... are. The Star Tribune does blame the American public a bit, but then realizes that Georgie & Co. lied through their teeth and thus the American public really aren't to blame. It is however, a wake up call to the American public. If we let Georgie & Co. continue we're to blame. We let them lie to us in 2002 and we keep letting them lie to us.
Meanwhile another 65 members of the U.S. military have been named dead in Iraq with another seven reported dead. This makes May the deadliest month this year since Jan. I'm sure that number will increase as the reports coming out of Iraq are grim. Unless we put an end to Bush's lies the blood of everyone of the dead are on our hands.
The Star Tribune up in Minneapolis has a little editorial that takes exception to Georgie's little war in Iraq. While Minnesota has been "liberal" for quite a while, they aren't the uber-urbanized kind place that New York, or New Jersey, or Massachusetts, or... are. The Star Tribune does blame the American public a bit, but then realizes that Georgie & Co. lied through their teeth and thus the American public really aren't to blame. It is however, a wake up call to the American public. If we let Georgie & Co. continue we're to blame. We let them lie to us in 2002 and we keep letting them lie to us.
In the case of Iraq, the American public has failed them; we did not prevent the Bush administration from spending their blood in an unnecessary war based on contrived concerns about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. President Bush and those around him lied, and the rest of us let them. Harsh? Yes. True? Also yes. Perhaps it happened because Americans, understandably, don't expect untruths from those in power. But that works better as an explanation than as an excuse.It's good to see the media taking sides and calling Bush & Co. to account. As Hunter S. Thompson said just after Nixon's death, "It was the built-in spots of the Objective rules and dogma [of the media] that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place." Today we have a President that gamed the system so he could swagger through the doors not once but twice. The second tiime claiming a mandate where none exists. Bush is our Nixon. Only worse because Bush & Co. have learned from Nixon and thus are able to game the system all that much more. The consequences will be all that much more tragic unless we all tune in stop Bush from taking us down into the abyss of banality that Georgie & Co. seem intent on dragging us.
Meanwhile another 65 members of the U.S. military have been named dead in Iraq with another seven reported dead. This makes May the deadliest month this year since Jan. I'm sure that number will increase as the reports coming out of Iraq are grim. Unless we put an end to Bush's lies the blood of everyone of the dead are on our hands.