What Price For Political Folly? (Or How To Lie Your Way To The Top And Down Again.)

Two items in the news (sort of), caught my eye this morning. One is a headline that reads, ‘Cheney Told Top Aide Of CIA Agent’ and the other wasn’t mentioned at all, and that is that the number of Killed In Action in Iraq is now 1,999 American Soldiers. These two items made me pause and ask myself several questions. First, shouldn’t most Americans have read enough about the Plame Gate case and all that led up to it to now know beyond any doubt that the Bush administration, with Dick Cheney at the helm of the ‘Oil for War’ program, had decided long before 9/11 to invade Iraq? And second, by now, shouldn’t most Americans have read enough about the reasons put forth by this administration for going to war, to realize that virtually all of the reasons consisted of twisted facts and simply fabricated information.

As I thought about these questions I also began to notice real similarities between the Oil for Food Program run by the United Nations and the Oil for War Program run by the Bush administration. For instance in neither case were there weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. In both cases innocent people have died and in the later case are still dying. In both cases there was and is corruption and cronyism within the operations. But then the similarities end. During the Oil for Food Program Iraq had nothing to do with al Qaeda but now in the Oil for War Program al Qaeda uses Iraq as a training ground for terrorist. During the Oil for Food Program American Soldiers weren’t dying daily in Iraq and now we are approaching 2,000 killed and 15,220 wounded and more are killed or wounded every day.

To me these facts and events point out one thing very clearly. This administration is not honest. It’s really as simple as that. The Bush administration entered the conflict in Iraq with the support of most of the American people (excluding me) after they presented blatantly false information to the American people and Congress. The Valerie Plame Wilson case clearly demonstrates that the administration planned and executed a propaganda campaign to convince Congress and the American people that Iraq first, had something to do with 9/11 and second that Iraq posed an imminent threat to the United States by virtue of possessing weapons of mass destruction. Both of these ‘lies’ have since been proven to be untrue and now the Plame Wilson case shows that the administration, with malice of for thought set out to assassinate the reputation of anyone who assisted in exposing them as the liars that they are or for that matter even disagreed with their policies or ‘intelligence information’. Now it’s coming unraveled. I believe that in the next days or weeks the truth will come out (if any more were needed) and the American people will see even more clearly the deceit employed by the Bush administration in manipulating the public and Congress.

Those are The Sergeant Majors thoughts on that.