1 Boring Old Man

I didn’t say everything I was thinking in sailing over a cardboard sea…. I guess I was still a bit stunned with the magnitude of our foreign debt. But it adds to something I’ve long thought about the Bush Administration and DECEIT. There’s so much to say, but I’ll only hit the high points.

They lied to get us into the War with Iraq: Cheney’s Energy Conference, the Niger Forgeries, the Aluminum Tubes, the "sixteen words," the OSP reports of Iraq/al Qaeda ties. But there were other things. They wanted to invade Iraq with 50,000 troops when the Army estimated 400,000. Why? They knew we couldn’t afford the War. The result was an inadequate assault that bred the "insurgency." They outed Valerie Plame to discredit her husband exposing their duplicity. They pretended to go to the U.N. when they knew we were invading no matter what. They used the National Guard rather than raise an Army with the draft. They kept the war costs out of the Budget. They borrowed money from foreign governments instead of taxing us to pay for the war. They kept everything secret – domestic surveillance, Torture. They didn’t allow photographs of the returning caskets. They didn’t want us to feel their war. We might object [if we felt the cost or saw our middle class children drafted and killed]. It was conscious DECEIT from beginning to end. Conscious DECEIT.