Anonymous
Bush Needs a Good Butt Fucking - The fucking Bastard
Mon Jan 12 21:49:57 2004
67.1.140.24

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/whatdowedonow.html
Okay, so what happens now?

This last week has started to see the façade crumble away from the wars.
Gone is the comfortable fraud, leaving in its wake a very stark and
harsh reality.

The Carnegie Report affirmed that there had never been a military threat
from Iraq, no weapons of mass destruction were poised just 45 minutes
away to strike at hearth and home. The last-second discovery of a few
dozen rusted out warheads from 10 years ago only underscored that the
desperate attempt to find weapons of mass destruction to retroactively
justify the war in Iraq had failed, and failed miserably.

The Carnegie Report came hard on the heels of Paul Bremer's comments
that claims of underground WMDs labs having been found in Iraq were a
total fiction. Paul was apparently unaware that Prime Minister Tony
Blair was the author of the aforesaid claims.

This was followed by a startling admission by Colin Powell that there
was no evidence that linked Iraq or Saddam Hussein with Al Qaeda. This
admission was startling because it was Colin Powell himself who nearly a
year ago was assuring the world of the exact opposite, that Iraq was
supporting and arming Al Qaeda.

A last-ditch attempt to explain the absence of WMDs in Iraq by claiming
that Syria now had them was torpedoed by no less a personage than
National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice, who admitted for the record
that there was no evidence at all that Iraq had sent WMDs to Syria, a
reasonable conclusion now that it is apparent that Iraq did not have
WMDs at all.

Finally we have former Treasury Secretary John O'Neill, who has gone
public with the revelation that the Bush administration was planning war
on Iraq from the day they took office, long before the events of 9-11.

None of these revelations are shocking to those people who get their
news from the internet. What has changed is that the mainstream media,
possibly out of concern that the internet has succeeded in capturing the
lead in reporting stories of government wrongdoing (my own website now
has a readership larger than all but the largest city newspapers) , has
started to report these embarrassing admissions and exposures to the
general public.

The immediate result of these stories is that non-computer literate
Americans can no longer avoid what has been obvious to the internet
Americans for months. The US Government lied to start wars planned long
before the general public even knew they were coming.

No doubt there will be a great deal of denial on the part of those
flag-waving 'true believers' who eagerly shipped off other people's
children to be killed and crippled. Nobody likes to admit they were
wrong, or made a fool of, and we may see the flag-waving 'true believers
' eager to ship off more of their neighbors' kids to be killed before
they are ready to admit their own error at not being more skeptical of
the government's pre-war claims.

But there can no longer be any doubt. The US Government lied to start
the war in Iraq. The whole world knows that now. And more to the point,
the whole world knows that Americans know that the US Government lied to
start the war in Iraq. The world is now watching what the people of the
United States will do. We must do something. No longer able to pretend
we are innocent victims of government deception, the world will expect
the people of the United States to do something about this horrific
deception and the equally horrific war it created.

Americans have long held themselves up as the champions of justice and
freedom for the rest of the world. It is our image to the world. It is
our image to ourselves. It is how we define ourselves, it is our
identity, and it is who we are collectively as a nation. And, if we fail
to take action in the face of the lies used to start a war, we must in
the process sacrifice that image, not only to the world, but to
ourselves. Either one acts like a champion of truth and freedom, or one
admits one is just another sheep. There is no other choice left.

Most Americans don't want to face that choice. They want their cake and
eat it too. They want to believe that, being Americans, they are
honorable people willing to fight for principles, but being practical,
they also don't want to run the risks that taking a stand against
corrupt government entails. It is for that reason that so many people
will gratefully accept even the most obvious and shoddy propaganda lies,
in order to avoid that choice. They can go on believing they have the
courage to stand up for freedom and justice while pretending they do not
see any reason to do so at the present moment.

But the current, "Big deal, so we lied" attitude of the administration
has removed that comforting self-deception. Americans are facing that
unpleasant choice of deciding whether they really do have the courage to
stand up for truth, justice, and freedom, or if they are cowards who
wear their convictions only for show on the appropriate social
occasions.

For many Americans still believing the idea that the government is the
servant of the people and is looking out for the people's best
interests, the revelation of the deception that took this nation to war
in Iraq is a severe psychic shock, not unlike that felt by a child who
realizes that it is not the child but the abusive parent that is the
problem, or the discovery that one's spouse has been cheating all along.
Reactions to the shock will be varied, evolving through denial, anger,
and finally acceptance.

Ultimately, after the angst, the choice Americans do not want to face
will have to be made. First choice; stand up for freedom, truth, and
justice. In other words, be what an American is supposed to be before
the world and before oneself. Second choice, do nothing, and by that
nothing cease to be what an American is supposed to be.

From those that choose the second course, we can expect the usual
excuses, justifications, rationalizations, the pathetic "my country
right or wrong" voiced in a thousand variations by a million useful
idiots throughout history. Like the abused child making excuses for the
abusing parent, or the cuckold covering up for the wandering spouse,
these are pathetic people in deep denial, and can hardly be called
Americans any longer. Having had their money and children stolen through
lies and deceptions, they have now lost their very identify. In such
surrender, in ceasing to live what America is supposed to be, such
people have damaged the nation far more deeply than any real terror
attack could hope to do, and must rank in history with those Germans who
knew what Hitler was really doing, and stayed silent, or worse, were
driven to fanaticism by their own denial that they were doing wrong.

For the rest of us, the time has come to face the reality of a
government that rules us by lies and deceptions. Action is called for,
at all levels of society.

At the very least, men and women of good conscience, confronted with the
lies that led us to war in Iraq, must now abandon the assumption that
the government has ever told us the truth about anything. Lies got us
into war with Iraq. Did lies get us into war with Afghanistan? Was 9-11
a deception to further the war agenda?

The Warren Report claimed JFK was shot by a lone gunman, but the House
Select Committee on Assassinations concluded JFK was killed by multiple
gunmen. We are taught in school that Pearl Harbor was a surprise, but
documents declassified in 1994 proved that FDR not only knew the
Japanese were coming, but had goaded the Japanese into the attack, as a
means to get the US into the war against the Axis. There were no
torpedoes in the Gulf of Tonkin. USS Maine was not blown up by a Spanish
mine but by a fire in a coal bunker located imprudently next to a
magazine. The investigation into the attack by Israel on the USS Liberty
was ordered by President Johnson to conclude the attack was an accident
even though the evidence indicated otherwise. The Iraqis did not
actually steal incubators from Kuwaiti hospitals.

Time and time again the stories We The People are fed to justify wars
both current and past do not bear close scrutiny. Of the dozens of
military interventions carried out by the US in the years since the
Korean war under the claim of bringing democracy to the world, not one
has actually resulted in a functioning democracy. In Chile, the US
actually destroyed a democratic government to install the dictator
Pinochet.

For those Americans with the courage to stand for truth, justice, and
freedom, living under a government that lies is intolerable. And, given
that the Constitution of the United States does not explicitly grant the
government the right to lie to the people, it is illegal as well.

Let me reiterate. The Constitution of the United States does not
explicitly grant the government the right to lie to the people. And the
Tenth Amendment bars the government from simply assuming that right.

Therefore, under the rule of law, a government that lies acts both
unconstitutionally and illegally. At the point in time when the lie is
told, the government steps outside its lawful authority and ceases to be
the legal government of this land. And for those Americans who have the
courage to stand for truth, justice, and freedom, the time has come to
acknowledge that the current government is acting in an illegal manner.

Clearly a government that lies to the people to take from them money and
children for wars created out of personal desire and greed is not a
government of the people, by the people, or for the people, but usurpers
stealing gold and blood under false pretenses.

When Bush lied to start the war in Iraq, the entire government and
media, with only a few exceptions, stood up to be counted with the lie.
It therefore follows that the entire government has lost its legitimacy.
How can it be legitimate? How can a government that claims to rule with
the consent of the people claim to have that consent when the people
never consented to being lied to?

Some observers have stated that because of the current lie, the burden
of proof has shifted onto the government. In truth, it was always there.
The government is always obligated to be able to document the accuracy
and honesty of whatever it claims, whether it's the ratification of the
16th amendment, or Dick Cheney's Energy policy.

We live under a government that has lied to Americans to trick us into
wars waged for conquest and profit. We cannot allow this to stand and
remain Americans. Bush's lies about Iraq have forced an unpleasant
choice on you, and the time to choose what you will do about it is now.