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There was an excellent appraisal of last week's Washington events in Candide's Notebooks by Pierre Tristan, “Surge” Shills - Dog and Petraeus Show.
But it was a posting in the comments section that also really struck home:
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"Excellent piece, Pierre. . . .
They're all on automatic pilot at least until the end of Bush's criminal usurpation terminates next January. Petreaus and Crocker and company aren't going to say a single word not scripted by the White House, or they risk their political necks just as did numerous others over the past 5 + years, e.g. Richard Clarke, Paul O'Neill, et al.
The most unspeakable component of this ongoing unwinnable disaster is that it was a criminal act to begin with and therefore nothing but unrelieved criminality could possible issue from it. That any public discussion of this fact remains in a state of suspended animation until some remote future date when the criminals in charge are long dead or holed up in bunkers in Crawford, Paraguay or Wyoming, is evidence enough that our political process is utterly bankrupt.
It's as bankrupt as our "bullying in the Middle East," as PT aptly says. We're politically, morally, and soon to be economically bankrupt because of this Grand Illusion set in motion by a spoiled dry drunk frat brat ex-cheerleader, and that's a legacy we will never get out from under. The rest of the world loathes us because we've allowed this to happen, and never did a goddamn thing effective to stop it, including never impeaching the sonsofbitches in Washington who set all the machinery in motion, machinery that now cannot be stopped because we're over-committed and Congress is as culpable for it as the WH. Hence, they never impeached, or brought criminal charges against the Bush adm. because they knew how fully complicit they'd been all along.
Obfuscation of what we're really doing there and why has been the only strategy since April, 2003. Petreaus' charge is to keep that smokescreen fully operational, never stop blowing smoke, keep Bush happy in his demented delusions, since any other course is an open admission that we've been dead-ass WRONG since Day One on this absolute and irreversible catastrophe. We will never recover any of our (largely mythic) respect as responsible "world leaders," but we will retain indefinitely our Bushite identity as belligerent hegemons eager to enforce our political and economic will on the entire world via military force, regardless of how ineffective it is or how much blowback results from it.
We can't learn anything over here--that too is an indelible trait of our identity. A stubborn refusal to understand the complexities and uniqueness of other cultures is as American as baseball, so when we launch our next attack on whatever country Bush or his successor decides is "evil", it'll be just like tuning in to Game One of the World Series. Who will benefit? The same Exxon, Shell, Blackwater, Halliburton gangsters now benefitting, and their shills in Washington and the Pentagon.
Petreaus' "testimony" is merely the most recent chapter in the horrific narrative of this country's determination to self-destruct, all because this semi-literate bullying little privileged prick, who can never admit he's ever even made a mistake in his entire life when his entire life is nothing but a string of disasters, threw a tantrum the day he illegally swaggered into the White House, demanding to be allowed to attack Iraq and finish the job his daddy didn't. And to pacify this spoiled piece of shit the whole world must suffer--until of course Jesus returns and bundles Georgie up in his arms like a puppy dog and lifts him up to heaven."
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Why is it that the mainstream media of the U.S. can never be as honest and insightful as the commenter above ???
