Ho Hum, More War And Death --Mark Morford

[indigobusiness]

Ho Hum, More War And Death
What happens when habitual warmongering and BushCo lies become part of our daily diet?
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist

Wednesday, January 19, 2005

And then you read the appalling little story about how BushCo is now "taking steps" to further the investigation into why their original intelligence on Iraq was so painfully, treasonously, colon-clenchingly wrong, why they thought Saddam had giant Costco-sized warehouses stacked to the rafters with snarling nukes and nasty biotoxins and active warheads when, in fact, he had nothing but a couple Dumpsters full of rusty 20-year-old shell casings and a bucket of stale glue.

And don't forget the part about how Congress allotted hundreds of millions of dollars for the futile WMD search, with no public accounting of the money, and the entire budget and the expenditures are to remain classified, by order of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Ha ha. Sigh.


This is about the time your head spins all the way around and you shudder in disbelief and you stifle a giggle and hold your sides and restrain yourself from gagging, think happy thoughts about sex and love and trees because otherwise you just smash your head with a brick and throw puppies into paper shredders to numb the pain and quiet the screams.

Because if you've been paying any attention at all, this is when you remember that it was at Bush/Cheney's own order that the CIA intelligence reports be intentionally skewed and rewritten, that they doctor their reports to say what BushCo wanted them to say to justify their vicious and unwinnable little war that is quickly shaping up to be one of the most economically debilitating, socially humiliating, deadly quagmires since Vietnam.

And this is when you remember, furthermore, how BushCo forced poor emasculated Colin Powell to stand up in front of the UN Security Council and shake little vials of anthrax and hold up completely bogus proofs, including satellite images of supposed "mobile biological-weapons labs" which were, instead, tanks of hydrogen for weather balloons. New drinking game: replay the video of Powell's testimony, take a shot whenever a final spark of his remaining dignity dies.


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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2005/01/19/notes011905.DTL&nl=fix

[Atman]

1. I can't believe no one had a comment on this article.

It literally brought tears to my eyes. This is what we've become. This is reality, baby.

Please read this, everybody. Then e-mail it to everyone you know. Print it out and stick it under every windshield at your local church parking lot. Cry it from rooftops. This is what the madman has done to our country.

And we let him.

NotBannedYet.US

[fortyfeetunder]

2. America: Oh yeah, right...

I think the Pugs are oblivious and the Dems are numfounded to this debacle.

[Blue_Tires]

3. great piece

wonder how often he reads this site

[da_chimperor]

4. Definately worth a kick. n/t

[Lone_Star_Dem]

5. He says it all without holding back

I printed it and am emailing it out.

[ocean girl]

6. fantastic - kick it

[bigmonkey]

7. I didn't read it this morning.

I read it now, at the urging of the headline. I felt I knew what it would say. Wasn't disappointed.

Some of us have been opposed to this madness for a long time now, including most of the people on this site. This is what it's like when someone holds all the strings, even though everyone hates him. Tyranny, the founders would call it.

[EC]

8. I just don't get how they can get away

with this...aren't there any good Republicans that will say enough?

[Atman]

9. No, there are no good republicans.

After today, I'm convinced of that.

[Gold Metal Flake]

12. Their crimes are making them millions and millions!

They ae stealing. That's why people go along with it. The threat of death or imprisonment on Gitmo or Jordan or someplace as a deterrent to squeeling is also useful.

[EC]

13. There has got to be a few that are beginning to feel

slighted or like their not really benefiting as much as promised or feeling slighted. Always happens with crooks, there is always one that feels as though they are taking all the risks and not getting their fair share. If we can't find a honest one, we'll have to find a disgruntled one...

[welshTerrier2]

10. and the Democratic Party?

what role have Democrats played in all this?

great article ... wish it went a little further to discuss the failures of our two party system to correct these evils ...

[OneBlueSky]

11. this paragraph just about sums it all up . . .

it's why I'm feeling the way I'm feeling, and why you're feeling the way you're feeling . . . it is, unfortunately, the way it is . . .

"And now, all outrage has become muted and lethargic. All protests, in the wake of BushCo's nauseating fear-based win last November, have become pale and moot and limp. We are numb and resigned to the steady stream of lie and abuse. This is the sentiment, even among many fear-hammered red staters who insist on seeing Bush as their pseudo-religious dumb-guy Messiah: a sort of national teeth gritting, a dark period in America, a hunkering down and waiting for it to be over and for the light to emerge again.

[EC]

14. It's the same resignation that

Michael Moore equated as an abused spouse...

[dazzlerazzle]

15. torture for info on wmd that never existed

can you imagine if these iraqis were subjected to the measures at abu gahrid over info on something that wasn't?

[DinahMoeHum]

16. Motto of Bushco - "Oderint dum metuant" - Let them hate. . .

as long as they fear.

:evilfrown: