Lies, damn lies and George Bush

It’s not just that our Texas bullslinger lied about why he just had to attack Iraq, or that he is still lying about the progress or that he lied when he told us that the whole world believed Iraq had nukes and missiles and anthrax bombs and the like. Of course nearly all the world’s leaders told us he didn’t and yet, because we’re stupid, we still hate them for telling us the truth while believing they didn’t tell us the truth. Orwell called it doublethink – I call it willful amnesia when I’m in a good mood – blind stupidity when I’m not.

All along our drugstore cowboy in chief has been calling the Iraqis terrorists and insurgents, hiding the fact that they were not terrorists until we blew up their infrastructure and started torturing them and stealing from them and established ourselves as yet another infidel colonial power on their sacred sands. We’ve read report after report that the number of foreign insurgents in Iraq is small and the “insurgents” we’re fighting and calling an enemy are the people we are “helping.”

We’ve disregarded such reports, when they make the US papers, because the evil cabal of traitors who run our country and the sick bastards who support them have trained us to dismiss any bit of truth that sneaks past the reactionary plutocrats who own the media as “Liberal bias.”

Our only significant ally in this insane undertaking is England and yet the English press has far less reluctance to printing negative information. The Telegraph seems to confirm my belief that one of the reasons we plant news stories and pay reporters to file bogus reports is that we are fighting Iraqis who want us out rather than “fighting them (al Qaeda) over there.”

“Iraqis, rather than foreign fighters, now form the vast majority of the insurgents who are waging a ferocious guerrilla war against United States forces in Sunni western Iraq, American commanders have revealed.”

Such stories have run here, but not where people can easily find them nor have they been adequately addressed by the TV media. We prefer to and we continue to lump Iraqi patriots, disgruntled, unemployed, outraged Iraqis and a handful of foreign opportunists as “terrorist insurgents” just as the Nazis did the French Resistance and as we did in Viet Nam.

Sure we have had reports that the locals don’t support the “insurgents” but now that we know the US is planting such stories, we have even more reason to doubt that what’s going on over there has any relation to what we’re told by the Texas Tyrant and his faithful minions.