The lies of war
By Libby
I was cruising through my archives of unposted links and found these old ones I never deleted. Last year on this day we found out that the Bush administration didn't just lie to get us into this war, they lied to us about the war. At House hearings a soldier testified that he was ordered to lie about Pat Tillman's death and Jessica Lynch testified that the Pentagon lied about her capture and rescue.
In response to this and the Democrats publicly stating the Iraq occupation was a disaster, Tom DeLay, himself newly indicted for money laundering, the White House and the Very Serious Villagers who support them like "man of the people" David Broder accused anti-occupation Americans of treason.
Steve Benen, never at a loss for words, dug up the ultimate DeLay quote in response to that, an eloquent dissent on the war -- in Kosovo. It remains the perfect argument for leaving Iraq.
Who would have thought I would be looking back on these days with fondness now? Leftopia was such a nicer place when we were all working together to fight the machine instead of bickering over who gets to run it this time. I was thinking today that it's not so much that I hate this primary going on for so long, it's that I hate what it's doing to Leftopia. It's taking all the fun out of it.
Meanwhile, the war drums for Iran keep getting louder. While nearly everyone is poring over polls and running modeling to predict who is going to win six months from now, the White House is steadily building yet another deceitful narrative about imminent danger and quietly putting the players in place that could, and would, act on their lies. I wonder how much all those predictions will matter if the October surprise is a little air strike.
I was cruising through my archives of unposted links and found these old ones I never deleted. Last year on this day we found out that the Bush administration didn't just lie to get us into this war, they lied to us about the war. At House hearings a soldier testified that he was ordered to lie about Pat Tillman's death and Jessica Lynch testified that the Pentagon lied about her capture and rescue.
In response to this and the Democrats publicly stating the Iraq occupation was a disaster, Tom DeLay, himself newly indicted for money laundering, the White House and the Very Serious Villagers who support them like "man of the people" David Broder accused anti-occupation Americans of treason.
Steve Benen, never at a loss for words, dug up the ultimate DeLay quote in response to that, an eloquent dissent on the war -- in Kosovo. It remains the perfect argument for leaving Iraq.
Who would have thought I would be looking back on these days with fondness now? Leftopia was such a nicer place when we were all working together to fight the machine instead of bickering over who gets to run it this time. I was thinking today that it's not so much that I hate this primary going on for so long, it's that I hate what it's doing to Leftopia. It's taking all the fun out of it.
Meanwhile, the war drums for Iran keep getting louder. While nearly everyone is poring over polls and running modeling to predict who is going to win six months from now, the White House is steadily building yet another deceitful narrative about imminent danger and quietly putting the players in place that could, and would, act on their lies. I wonder how much all those predictions will matter if the October surprise is a little air strike.
Labels: Bush Administration, Iran, Iraq
posted by Libby Spencer at 12:05 AM
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