"The goal in Iraq is victory," he tells us. Well now, that's edifying. Victory over what? Over whom? Why? This is what he has to convince us that his disaster in the middle east is a great and noble war, and that we should all come back to the fold?
I was listening to NPR yesterday morning. All they did was play back clips of the administration's justifications for the war in Iraq, marking the three-year anniversary of its beginning. (You can listen to the story here: Discredited Rationale) The lies, the straight-faced, earnest-toned lies. It's almost too much to believe that someone could be so mendacious, but here we are. And I'm left with ranting in the blogosphere. At least I won't be indicted by my silence.
It's not entirely germane, but I'm reminded of this:
When they came for the communists, I was silent, because I was not a communist;
When they came for the socialists, I was silent, because I was not a socialist;
When they came for the trade unionists, I did not protest, because I was not a trade unionist;
When they came for the Jews, I did not protest, because I was not a Jew;
When they came for me, there was no one left to protest on my behalf."
Martin Niemoeller (1892-1984)
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