Dissembling a Disgrace
It’s the sub-title I can’t get over.
Mike Allen’s Washington Post article is titled “Lawmaker Tours Become Part of Guantanamo Life,” but the sub-title is Pentagon Responds to Critics With a PR Push.
Absolutely everything critically spoken or written about the Bush administration is answered not by thoughtful response or intellectual debate or even by hard-nosed facts and figures. In the place of reality, we have and (worse) have accepted public relations blitzes.
We’re being fed a constant bowl of Wheaties.
This administration has been conspiratorial in its false-selling of the wrong war at the wrong time against the wrong enemy, compounding that criminal act by yet another; the hopelessly ill-conceived occupation and rebuilding of Iraq.
In the face of this, the world has been shown an aspect of our nation that no American would recognize; a military-prison system run amok. In the aftermath
President Bush has not so much as raised his voice in anger
Donald Rumsfeld hasn’t stood to take…