Wag The Fag: With opposition to the war growing the GOP seizes on gays

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Will Washington’s gay marriage cannonball hit its target in Boston ?

The desperation days have arrived at the White House as we enter a hot and nasty political summer. Despite the one-week reprieve that Bush got thanks to Ronald Reagan's death—and the media's dangerous blackout of all other news while it fawned over the dead president for seven days straight—the Bushies are in full- force fabrication mode, and the Republican establishment has pulled out the biggest diversionary tactic in its war book. Senate Republicans have now grabbed the federal marriage amendment off the back burner, obviously afraid the Bush presidency will go down in flames if they don't draw attention from the ensuing disasters of the Iraq war. After signaling for months that there wouldn't be a vote on the amendment before November—and after saying himself that he didn't think amending the Constitution was something to rush into—Senate majority leader Bill Frist has scheduled a vote on the FMA for the week of July 12.

Months back, I wrote that gay people who are opposed to the war in Iraq had better be careful what they wish for: If the public starts snapping out of the hypnotic, 9/11-induced trance and gets wise to the war lies, the horrors of homosexuality will be the desperate diversion of the campaign. Wag the Fag is what I'd called the strategy.

Sure enough, that desperation has engulfed Washington . Frantic to hold on to some semblance of a justification for the invasion, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice and the rest of the gang continue to promulgate fantasies about connections between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda, even as the 9/11 Commission confirms otherwise. Splitting hairs about what they meant—"collaboration" vs. "contact"—is a farcical game on the Bushies' part, since everyone knows that in the run-up to war they strongly insinuated Saddam was responsible for 9/11.

It wasn't surprising to see Cheney whirl himself into yet another vein-popping tirade against the media, most pointedly the New York Times (whose credibility is already on the line), for allegedly misinterpreting the commission's findings. The fact that the commission later asked for whatever information Cheney himself was keeping from them—if indeed he had further evidence of a working relationship between Saddam and al Qaeda—only underscored the fact that the Bushies will continue to tell their own story, blur the facts and hope that half of the slumbering public still believes them.

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