Silver Bullet

You can kill a vampire by driving a stake through its heart, you can kill a witch by burning and you can destroy a werewolf with a silver bullet but you can’t kill stupid.

We learned a long time ago that Bush was planning to cook up a reason to attack Iraq long before he paid any attention to al Qaeda.  We’ve learned more recently that he told Tony Blair that he was going to attack even if he had to do something to make Saddam attack a US plane painted up to look like a UN plane.  At this point only a complete idiot or a complete Republican could support the Bush lie that Iraq needed to be invaded for reasons other than the President’s ambition.

But proof is not enough, proof is not even relevant. What you believe has everything to do and only to do with what side of the cultural divide you’re on.  The same people who were quick and enthusiastic about calling Al Gore a liar when he misstated the cost of dog food by a few tenths of a percent won’t consider the Downing Street Memo or the recent White House memo to be proof of mendacity.  Facts don’t count. Where there’s a smoking gun, believers see only smoke.

Maybe the only hope is that stupid will kill itself and there will be enough left to be able to rebuild our nation with. Maybe we all have stupid hopes. The stupid hope I cling to despite the evidence is that somehow, democracy can work.