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Lies: Pillars of the State
Sun Oct 5 11:16:00 2003
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http://www.babelmagazine.com/issue116/lies.html
Lies: Pillars of the State
by Lisa Guliani

10-5-03

"Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is
attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing
falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any
refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that
the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after
this process of grotesque self-deception."

-- Mark Twain, "Chronicle of Young Satan"

On Monday, September 8th, President George W. Bush informed the nation
and the lame-duck U.S. Congress that he now needs a whopping $87 Billion
to maintain U.S. military objectives in Iraq and Afghanistan. This
eye-popping amount of "money" is to be used to maintain the ongoing
death, doom, destruction and decimation known as "defeating the enemies
of freedom" (also called "securing the interests of the cabal and making
Poppa Bush gleefully wet his trousers.")

On Wednesday September 17th, 2003, George W. Bush calmly announced to
reporters that there was no evidence linking Saddam Hussein with the
events of September 11, 2001. Just like that, our man George reversed
himself. You see, George has changed his mind. Forget about what he said
BEFORE, ok? Never mind that no "weapons of mass destruction" have
materialized thus far. Never mind that. That was yesterday. This is
today - and today, George W. has his hand out once again, expecting more
of our fake money and more multinational troops "over there" to assist
in the slaying of more phantom dragons. George wants to replenish the
war chest, you see. Oh yeah, and he wants LESS focus on the
inconsistencies and outright lies of the last couple of years, so if you
don't mind, just forget all that business, will ya? George wants bygones
to be bygones. Oh, and his administration would like us all to know that
they never SAID Saddam had anything to do with 9/11. So please get that
one straight. We must have IMAGINED they said it. In reality, on some
distant planet in a far-off galaxy, they only IMPLIED it. They ALLUDED
to it - as Vernon Jordan would say, "ova and ova and ova". So what. We
don't need your stinkin' WMD's, says Dubbya. We get our war without
them. Our arsenal is complete with twisted truths, outright lies, and
smokescreens. Throw in a little backpedaling and we're good to go.
Forget too, about the deadly drumbeat of yesterday, George's formal
pretext for this "war" - faked documents which the White House knew all
about, yet used anyway. George wants and needs your blind allegiance -
even if he lied - which he did, which he continues to do. We're supposed
to support him and his "war" anyway. After all, he's our man.

We are to forget the outrageous loss of human life which continues even
now - today - on ALL fronts. We are at war, my friends, and such are the
prices to be paid in wars, and apparently in peace time. George is a
"nation-builder". Mind you, he has no interest in "reconstructing" a
crumbling America. No, our fake money is slotted for foreign aid and
assistance. We Americans are on our own as far as that's concerned. We
need to help George and his buddies clean up the terrific mess they've
made of the Middle East. George can't clean up his messes by himself. He
can't clean up his lies either, for that matter.

Bush has spoken of "a collection of killers . desperately trying to
undermine Iraq's progress and throw the country into chaos". Yes, we are
certainly witnessing the shenanigans of a "collection of killers," I'll
agree with that. Witness too, how the war hawks are still dividing,
distracting, and diverting our attention from the lies. They need to
maintain the mental conditioning process and the status quo and the
flat-line American mentality. We are presumed to be so stupid as to
believe that this war is "necessary" - that it is "morally imperative"
to waste innocent people, steal their resources and obliterate entire
countries. We're dealing with a "new morality" here. This steroidal
flexing of U.S. military muscle has failed to impress the rest of the
world, but it damn sure impresses George and his buddies. The
"silver-spoon" gang has spoken, and so go their armies - the armies of
the bankers - also known as OUR troops. Blow a kiss to your sons and
daughters because they are in this fight for the long haul. George doesn
't give a rat's ass if they ever come home. George has other plans to
implement. The "war" is not about weapons of mass destruction. The war
is about oil and control and bumper crops of poppy seeds and enrichment
of a few maniacal criminals with champagne tastes who walk in the
shadows. Dead American soldiers aren't all that important in their
world - or George's, for that matter. Dead Iraqis don't count either. .
But let's not focus on THAT unpleasantness. We have nukes to drop and
many itchy fingers waiting in the wings.

William Kristol, war-hawk cheerleader extraordinaire, doesn't think we
should worry about "individual line items" in Bush's appropriation
request. Kristol is the "man" with the mouth and if HE says the
additional funds are an "$87 Billion Well Spent" (The Weekly Standard -
10/6/2003 - http://www.weeklystandard.com), then we better keep our
mouths shut and wave our pom-poms. It would seem that the Bush
administration is quickly falling out of favor, out of "usefulness" with
the cabal. The "machine" has developed a few squeaks and the Bush crew
is becoming defensive under increasing scrutiny and objection to his
phony "war on terror". Kristol is also unhappy with Congress,
characterizing their complaints about Bush's "$87 billion request" as
"unjustified and unenlightened". There's that word again. Oh, to be as
"enlightened" as the privileged few.

Moreover, it is recommended that the American people, as well as the
lame-duck Congress, should trust the executive branch to get things
right in the Middle East. Who's he kidding? Kristol goes on to tell us
that this funding request, "is an absolutely necessary initiative in
America's campaign against global terrorism." Remember, you're supposed
to "buy into" the above statement just like you're supposed to believe
all the other lies.

Are you getting the picture? Everybody keeps lying to us, and they know
we know they lied. Many people have been killed because of the lies
being told. Yet, they're saying, "so what?" Let's make war anyway. We're
expected to bend over (again) and FORK over what's left of our paychecks
in blind allegiance and full support of the U.S. government's
disgusting, despicable murder and destruction policies. We are to be
"enlightened" citizens and continue to finance these crimes against
humanity.

"We, the People" are a captive and presumably stupid audience. Kristol's
attempt to conjure up some splinter of genuine credibility within the
Bush administration would be laughable if it wasn't so despicable and
transparent. We are to support liars and murderers and thieves and revel
in their maniacal monologues. We are expected to "get with the
program" - with the "new morality" or lack thereof, and show
President-Implementer-Select-Bush he's our man. We're supposed to cough
up some more money so the world can transform into one enormous killing
field soaked in blood. Is it our DUTY to aid and abet these criminals
and traitors and in the process, become criminals ourselves? What about
honesty? What price must we pay for truth to appear? However great, I
say we pay it. Lies have become pillars of the State.

"Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as
rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But
such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it
wants, is the liberty of appearing."

~ Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791 ~



--
"When governments fear the people there
is liberty. When the people fear the government
there is tyranny." Thomas Jefferson

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