Talk-Radio and columnist warheads continue to direct misinformation machine.
”Possibly the biggest argument against
President Bush being unable to find the highly-claimed WMDs is that “if
the president wanted to find the weapons, he could simply have planted them.”
Right, you mean the same way a bad cop plants drugs on a Black suspect?”
This latest common conservative talk-radio sound-bite (feel free to pin quote
on any right-wing radio grunt of your choosing) , while at the same time wanting
to take W off the hook, essentially makes the commander-in-chief look like just
another stupid policeman.
The most telltale sign of Bush administration corruption is its high number
of departing officials, especially since the war. Major media is of course choosing
not to do any heavy coverage of the wave of departure, this in itself is a crime.
Because of this, the resignations of roughly a dozen high-ranking Bush appointees
from John Brady Kiesling to Christine Todd Whitman have avoided media scrutiny.
Most notable among them is the recent resignation of White House spokesman Ari
Fleisher due in July. Doubtless no man has been ordered to tell more lies in
a 3-year-period than the outgoing Press Secretary. Fleisher simply cites pressure
as his reason to bounce, even joking that he’ll take up something safe
like wrestling alligators as his next job. I suspect Ari had to fabricate more
stories than that NY Times brother Jayson Blair ever wished he could. But that’s
the state this administration has us in, much of White America waiting for weapons
of mass destruction like much of Black America waits for reparations. Somewhere
in there is a wonderful irony that’s being ignored.
Never mind my simple theory, that if Sadaam had any such animal they would have already been expended during the invasion of US troops, I don’t think a dictator hates being called a liar so much that he’ll withhold his greatest weapon during wartime after previously claiming he doesn’t have them. Close to 200 American troops have died during and since the war, whom is going to answer for those brave lives? It won’t be Sadaam, or even that other guy who was originally blamed for the 9/11 attacks, what’s his name…? bin Yaweh, bin Herr, bin Gay, Benson& Hedges?…oh nevermind. And what have we learned from all of this? That whenever your next-door-neighbor torches your car, go after the guy down the street.
In actuality what you won’t find out from any of the exit-door officials is the simple reason they haven’t caught Sadaam, is for the same reason they haven’t caught Osama bin Laden, they just aren’t trying to. He knows too much, they set him up in Cairo, supplied him with chemical agents against the Iranians and Kurds. It is no more in US interest to find Hussein than it is to find WMDs.
It is conservative media’s job to make us think it is however, and for the first time since the Rodney King video, they are more on the defensive than on the offensive. But don’t think they aren’t up to the task, according to Joshua Green of the Washington Monthly Online: “The Bush administration also enjoys broader leeway because it is free of the ‘vast right wing conspiracy’—the subsidized scandal mongering, talk radio, and attack journalism that has no equivalent on the left.’” The tireless right media veers on.