Who ya gonna call?

I think that only a liar could make a case that George Bush, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld and the rest of the White House gang’s capos aren’t liars. They’re simply so bad at remembering yesterday’s lie that they trip over it, time after time, but of course it doesn’t matter. Liars thrive in a climate of belief. But there are times that require a lie so big and a liar so cyberneticly dispassionate that only one liar is up to the task. That’s when they send in Condoleezza. The same snake eyed, poker faced Condoleezza who can look you in the eye and say that Saddam not having had WMD was precisely the reason we had to invade. Only Condy “the Cobra” Rice can assert that Clinton left no plans, no warnings about Osama bin Laden while asserting that the plans he left weren’t complete.

Never mind that Bush immediately tabled all discussion of Osama upon entering office and in fact held no meetings, it doesn’t matter. Never mind that Clinton launched some 60 or more missiles at Osama only narrowly missing him because of a last minute change in his itinerary, never mind that the Republicans did everything they could to cripple that effort, cripple the presidency and deny that there was in fact a threat from Islamic terrorists because it doesn’t matter. We are trained to dismiss the most credible testimony when the magic word “Liberal” is spoken and we are trained to think “Strong protector” whenever the President ignores a warning and goes on vacation.

So yes, Ollie North really did warn us against Osama even though he didn’t, Al Gore tried to stop him even though he didn’t, Clinton didn’t go after Osama even though he did and Bush didn’t ignore all warnings, discard information and stop further planning even though he did.

I hope that Bush is right, that this whole thing will be seen as a comma in history, because a comma means that the sentence continues. I’m not so sure that the USA will continue. I’m not so sure we aren’t already in free fall and I’m not at all sure that there will be a United States with the will or ability to put George W. Bush and his forty thieves behind bars where thieves and murderers belong.

Follow up

Not that it matters - not that the truth will ever matter again in the "post 9/11" world, but today's Raw Story lists the proof of Condoleezza's perfidy. In the first week after being sworn in, Bush received a document from Clinton advisers "Strategy for Eliminating the Threat from the Jihadist Networks of al-Qida: Status and Prospects." which outlines the strategy for pressuring Pakistan into cooperatiing in the Clinton plan to go after Osama in Afghanistan. The details have of course been classified to protect the guilty, but there it is in all its damning black and white. She lied, she smiled at us and lied. She know it was a lie and whe knew that anyone with an intact memory and half a brain knew she lied. Others told the truth and were shouted down, smeared, slandered and silenced.

Not that it matters. Bush's parrot could say anything and the flock will agree, sneering and snickering while our nation and our birthright swirl down the toilet.