CALL ME SNAKE

W took the occasion of Veteran’s Day to serve up the usual pack of lies in the guise of honoring American troops stuck fighting his war. W attacked his critics for having the temerity to suggest that he and his cohorts manipulated “intelligence” to justify the war in Iraq. These naysayers, W claims, are trying to “rewrite the history of how that war began.”

My first reaction is, HOW DOES HE COME UP WITH THIS STUFF? What planet does he live on? But then again, when everything’s going against you, it may be a natural reaction–especially for weak, cowardly types–to lash out at the people delivering the bad news, even when it happens to be the truth. The fact of the matter is, Bush doesn’t have a lot to go on these days, and this appears to be the last refuge of the desperate. A few people, I suppose, may be fooled by this smokescreen of doubletalk, but by now almost everyone knows that just about every major argument used to justify this war has proved to be baseless, if not an outright lie. If anyone is trying to rewrite history, it’s him.

Does W think the only way to honor the nation’s veterans (who certainly deserve to be honored) is to persist in these ridiculous lies? I, for one, don’t think so. Because Bush’s war effort, based as it is on a scaffolding of deceit, will inevitably increase the number of U.S. casualties. So that in the end, there will be fewer veterans to honor and more dead to mourn.