I was just reading the Boston Globe when I came across the headline, and was filled with a profound tiredness. You don't say? "Bush emphasizes diplomacy" Really. Eyes roll. Is there anyone who could read that headline and nod approvingly? Think, well, that's good news then.
Randi Rhodes interviewed Scott Ritter yesterday on AAR (audio here.) The interview was a sincere effort on her part to try to puzzle out the mystery of what reasoning lay behind Bush's nomination of John Bolton for the position of UN ambassador. At minimum, it's a move of staggering cynicism, a gigantic middle finger raised to the world.
But with the help of information from Ritter she concluded that it was more than that; that this nomination is one of a series of chess moves designed to culminate in an attack on Iran in June. Whether her conclusion is right or wrong is immaterial. While listening to her I thought, this is what we've come to. Four years of lies, propaganda and secrecy have reduced those who care about the truth to groping blindly for clues, reading tea leaves, trying to make sense out of the senseless.
I caught a bit of Jane Fonda's Q&A at the National Press Club on c-span tonight. Someone had asked about the similarities between Vietnam and Iraq, and she answered that they were very different wars. What ties them together is the lies that were told and the truths that were covered up in order to make both wars happen. I wonder who will release this generation's Pentagon Papers, and when? I'm waiting. The whole world is waiting.
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