Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Credibility Canyon
Our military is already starting to give their version of what was initially called "firing on a wedding party". The story coming out is that it wasn't a wedding, it was a safehouse harboring foreign insurgents; a satellite phone and Syrian passports were found; blah blah blah.
The trouble is, the administration has lied to us, and so blatantly, and so very many times now, that it's impossible to believe anything that comes out of any branch of our government anymore. It's gotten to the point where it seems safer to assume that our government's "official" version is the bullshit.
It doesn't help that this so-called safe house rather conveniently harbored a bunch of Syrian passports. You know. Syria. Iraq's neighbor. The next oil-rich country that W and company want to get their cowboy hands on, even though their business is far from done in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
Finally, isn't it funny how this story, which normally would have been the lead on every network, sort of blipped up and vanished in the face of absolutely no proof? You'd think that if we had Nick Berg's killers in custody, we'd be parading them in shackles before the news cameras immediately. Note, though that, significantly an anonymous source claims to have the four people in custody. The response of Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, Iraq's deputy director of operations: "Um, no we don't."
And in every case noted above, it seems that, finally, the mass media are starting to pull their heads out of their collective asses and not buy the bullshit anymore.
I think the "W" in George W. Bush now stands for Waterloo.
The trouble is, the administration has lied to us, and so blatantly, and so very many times now, that it's impossible to believe anything that comes out of any branch of our government anymore. It's gotten to the point where it seems safer to assume that our government's "official" version is the bullshit.
It doesn't help that this so-called safe house rather conveniently harbored a bunch of Syrian passports. You know. Syria. Iraq's neighbor. The next oil-rich country that W and company want to get their cowboy hands on, even though their business is far from done in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
Finally, isn't it funny how this story, which normally would have been the lead on every network, sort of blipped up and vanished in the face of absolutely no proof? You'd think that if we had Nick Berg's killers in custody, we'd be parading them in shackles before the news cameras immediately. Note, though that, significantly an anonymous source claims to have the four people in custody. The response of Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, Iraq's deputy director of operations: "Um, no we don't."
And in every case noted above, it seems that, finally, the mass media are starting to pull their heads out of their collective asses and not buy the bullshit anymore.
I think the "W" in George W. Bush now stands for Waterloo.
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