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Further Notes on the Atrocities

Sometimes I do odd things, and having a blog increases the frequency. Last night, after a restful four-day weekend, I booted up the computer to find out what happened on the Sunday news shows. When I stumbled across that footage of Chris Wallace stumping for the President, it tickled a deep fury, which resulted in two hours of digging on the White House site, and a subsequent 2,000 word post. All to refute a point no one believes now, anyway.

It's reactive. Since the invasion, Bush and Co. have consistently denied they tried to link al Qaida to Saddam. Until about four months ago, despite the very accessible proof to the contrary, the denials would have been 1) given more credence in the press, and 2) ignored by a vast swath of America who somehow imagine Bush keeps us safer. And I would have gone on a rant, or probably not, knowing the futility of it all.

America knows now what a small minority have been saying for years: the White House is being led by zealots and liars, and some very large percentage of domestic and foreign policy has risen on the foundation of lies. It isn't much of a secret: Kerry called them the "most crooked, lying group of people." When historians write the record of this time, they'll wonder what the hell happened to Americans and the press that we could allow ourselves to be bullied into ignoring the corruption of our leaders.

Sometimes that recognition takes hold of you. I've seen it happen to most every friend I have at one time or another (or many times), as a piece of news throws them into a 15-minute ranting lunatic. I guess the specter of a national journalist trying to bully a sitting Senator with lies was one of those times for me. We live in a bizarre country run by bad people. Sometimes it gets the best of us all.