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Bright Shining Lies, Blistering Truth
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Lies, misperceptions and fabrications make great history, great plays and great country songs. Both the Bible and Shakespeare feature the ramifications of this type of evil. And who can't sing along with Reba McEntire every word of Bobby Russell's "The Night the Lights Went out in Georgia?"
Retired USAF Colonel and former National War College Professor Sam Gardiner has analyzed this phenomenon of con as it relates to Bush's current adventures in democracy through occupation. Beyond the obvious fabrications that you and I might have seized upon, Colonel Gardiner painstakingly identifies 50 discrete and mostly successful efforts of this administration to mislead the American people, the Congress, and the world. Fourteen administration lies are listed below. They represent less than a third of the well-circulated and promoted storylines "manufactured or at least engineered that distorted the picture of Gulf II for the American and British people," such as:
You can read Part I of Gardiner's study here, as well as Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, and Part VI. Other coverage of this research can found here, here, and here. The Bushist Regime in Washington fascinates with glittery whirling costumes and fantastic masks of government and foreign policy. It is a veritable Mardi Gras of politics and intrigue, except the cheering throngs are big political donors and world government types, and the trinkets thrown are trillions of dollars worth of access, promises of favors and sole-source contracts. A preoccupation with the lies, however, can blind us to the truths of this administration. The truths are these.
It's not pretty. The night the lights went out in Georgia, the innocent died, the guilty lived, and most importantly, the State ate well. Reba sang it with pathos. The Bush administration sings it with triumphalism and ever increasing hostility. We won't see real political improvement in Iraq until we bring every soldier home - all of them, now. And we won't have improvement or honor in America until we send Bush, Cheney, their loyalists and their co-dependent congressmen back from whence they came, with due haste and without ceremony. [Note to Karl Rove, Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld: From what I am hearing, this last is looking increasingly inevitable. Make sure "update résumé" is on your "To Do" list.]
Karen Kwiatkowski [send her mail] is a recently retired USAF lieutenant colonel, who spent her final four and a half years in uniform working at the Pentagon. She now lives with her freedom-loving family in the Shenandoah Valley. Copyright © 2003 LewRockwell.com (used by permission)
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From
the first whispers of the Serpent in the Garden to our belligerent
born-again President proclaiming glory behind a cheap banner on an
expensive ship, we have been transfixed by evil and misrepresentation.
While all government practices to deceive, the Bush administration's use
of falsehood and faulty perception has been particularly masterful. Bush
and his team have a grifter's confidence. This grift is a confidence game,
a swindle on the American people, unctuously seduced to fund a Rousseau-esque
fantasy that we can force men to be free. In fact, we are funding the
destruction of real national possibilities for Iraq, the future disruption
of much of the rest of the Middle East, and a new era of global conflict
and competition that will be played out with tactical nuclear weapons and
the accompanying financial and moral deficits, the effects of which we
cannot begin to imagine. "Neo-conmen" is what one reader calls them. It
fits. 
November
12, 2003
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