Flogging the dead horse

Surely, we didn't need even more proof that GW was up to no good in Iraq. But, a leaked memo dated July of 2002 from the head of British intelligence reveals that "the Bush administration--contrary to its explicit denials--had already made up its mind to attack Iraq (well before evidence gathering supposedly supported their case) and "fixed" those bogus allegations to support its decision," according to this Salon article. The leak of the memo has not been sufficiently covered by the American press (to no one's surprise), being downplayed recently by the Quran desecration scandal of '05.

What did White House speaker Scott McClellan have to say about the memo's content, which has been deemed accurate by former high-ranking U.S. government officials? "The suggestion is just flat-out wrong. Anyone who wants to know how the intelligence was used only has to go back and read everything that was said in public about the lead-up to the war."

Brilliant! If you want to know the truth, go back and re-read the lies we told you. This guy should win an award for spinning that yarn! Public deception--er, I mean relations--gets no better! And this administration continues to flaunt that it has mastered this fine art.

The Salon article concludes by saying that once Americans realize that the Iraq war has failed to make them safer from future attack (not to mention failed to set up a stable, pro-West government) that their wrath will focus on the president and the political party that led them down this bloody path. I'd like to believe that to be a given--but I don't. Call me a pessimist, but if we as a majority haven't realized to this point that we're no safer, and that all that we are doing is fanning the flames for future insecurity, then we're pretty fucking dumb.

N/P--The Pink Mountaintops, "I (Fuck) Mountains"