Gentlemen, start your engines.

The bullshit never stops nor does the Orwellian antinomy, so when a Republican wants to drag us into the cesspit of lies, distortions, ignorance, tyranny and war, he calls it Progress.  Progress for America, a group that evidently identifies progress with promoting lies, is revving up the manure spreader with a new TV campaign designed to link the 9/11 attacks with George W. Bush’s misbegotten and foundering war in Iraq.  Never mind that no investigation has turned up any link whatsoever, that the CIA says there wasn’t any, that a Senate Intelligence Committee reports that Saddam declared al Zarqawi an outlaw and tried to arrest him: never mind that the administration itself has admitted that there was no connection – these people want you to believe it.

“These people want to kill us.” Shouts the advertisement and by These People, they mean every militant Islamic group.  Of course Saddam Hussein was not only never a part of those people, he was opposed to them.  These people want you to believe otherwise.

“Now, we have narrowly escaped "another 9/11," using proven surveillance that some would stop”  continues the ad, ignoring the fact that none of Bush’s transgressions of our constitution and none of George W. Bush’s actions or inactions contributed to the British effort to stop the plotters.  The British did not even tell us about it until shortly before the arrests, said FranTownsend a White House advisor, to MSNBC’s Chris Matthews on August 10th. Bush himself said the following day: “I want to thank the government of Tony Blair and officials in the United Kingdom for their good work in busting this plot.”  The British were tipped off by a Muslim who was obviously not one of “these people.” Bush and his warrantless wiretaps had nothing to do with it.

“The War on Terror is a war for our country's freedom, security and survival.” Is the conclusion of the false syllogism because whether or not that statement is true, the war in Iraq has nothing to do with and never had anything to do with the conquest and occupation of Iraq and the public’s growing awareness of  that fact cannot be explained by calling them cowards.

“They would cut and run in the Middle East, leaving Al-Qaeda to attack us again” says the voice of these people, which again stresses the non-existent  and disproven link and with oily precision slides from Iraq to the “Middle East”  No one is suggesting that we ignore the Middle East or indeed ignore Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden as George Bush and his lying lackeys have done.


If anyone still believes the media are controlled by “Liberals” or by people who “hate America”  they are probably beyond the reach of reason and will probably continue to suck up the propaganda the media pours out; telling us that 9/11 was Bill Clinton’s fault and that George W. Bush’s imperial ambitions are all about our freedom. According to FactCheck.org, the ad’s sponsor is a group formed in 2001 for the express purpose of backing the "Bush agenda," and it spent $38 million in 2004 promoting the President's re-election.  These are the people who hate our freedom, are stealing our freedom and selling it to the highest bidder.