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Monday, January 28, 2008

The State of Delusion Address: Building a Liar's Lying Legacy

[via Washington Post]

Bush's State of the Union tonight promises to be an opening chapter in his effort to manufacture a legacy as anything but the worst President in the history of this nation that he so clearly has been to the near ruin of us all.
For years, President Bush and his advisers expressed frustration that the White House received little credit for the nation's strong economic performance because of public discontent about the Iraq war. Today, the president is getting little credit for improved security in Iraq, as the public increasingly focuses on a struggling U.S. economy.

Of course, the truth is that "the White House received little credit for the nation's strong economic performance" because that strong economic performance didn't benefit everybody. The rich few who did benefit did indeed shower Bush with support and praise.

Of course, "the president is getting little credit for improved security in Iraq" because we weren't lied into war in Iraq with the promise that marginally fewer Iraqi civilians and American soldiers would be slaughtered in January 2008 than were a few months before in an illegal immoral war that has killed and maimed and tortured numberless innocents, bankrupted the Treasury, decimated America's standing in the world, and exacerbated global instability beyond measure and for no reason at all. The Iraq war by every measure has made Americans and the world less safe and secure. The people who did benefit from the war and looting-spree, er, "occupation," the bomb-builders and mercenary contractors and war-profiteers and insect-eyed corporate-militarist think-tank statisticians did indeed shower Bush with support and praise (and given how many of these death merchants also own our mass media outlets that support and praise has megaphoned across the nation and the world in defiance of decency or sense for bloody year after bloody year).

The lying house of cards that has propped up the murderous war-machine, privatization-machine, torture-machine, spying-machine, partisan scheme-machine of the Bush Administration begins tonight to shift into the engineering of the house of cards of a Lying Legacy.

Bush made his bed, and now he wants to lie about it.

Don't let him.

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