The Lies and the Lying Liars That Tell Them

I was listening to the news this morning while I was getting dressed for work and was stunned when I heard Bush’s latest statement about the war in Iraq. He is claiming that the ‘sectarian’ violence (are you as sick of these new bullshit terms they come up with as I am?) is not civil war, but rather it is part of an al-Qaida plot to use violence in order to encourage the Sunnis and the Shi’ites to war against each other. Is anyone even questioning what this guy says anymore? Are we listening to the words that are coming out of his mouth? Why is it that at EVERY press conference he stumbles clumsily past every question about the war and gives some half-witted answer to a question that was never asked in the first place. No one holds him accountable for this, no one pursues the matter further. Wasn’t it just the other day that Kissinger openly referred to the sectarian violence as a civil war? Isn’t he one of the people advising the Bush administration on Iraq? And now Bush has decided that in order to have a more successful exit strategy, it is imperative that Iran and Syria are involved in the ‘democratization’ of Iraq. Hey Bush – while you’re deciding what everyone is going to have to do and dictating what terms they have to do it on (like telling Iran to knock of the nuclear shit, or the US won’t deal with them, like they give a shit) the Ayatollah of Iran is meeting with the leaders in Iraq. Yeah, probably not to talk about how great you guys are either. What a fucking mess.

In the meantime, somewhere in Afghanistan, the Taliban has regrouped and is very quickly regaining power. Bush wants to send more NATO troops there. If I were NATO I would say “Hey, fuck you man – you’re the one that decided to put all your eggs in the Iraq basket. Why don’t you pull some of those guys out of there and start doing what you originally said you were going to do? Remember that? You know, where the heart of terrorism lies? Where the organization that blew up your shit on your home soil lives? Little place called Afghanistan. Maybe you should look into that.”

Scary times people; and it’s only going to get worse.