To Show Loyalty, Rice Lies for Bush --- by Joe Conason

[Khephra]

According to contemporary political lore, the Bush clan exalts loyalty above every other virtue. Other politicians envy that inviolable code, whose power is reflected in the absence of leaks from the White House, in the lockstep obedience of politicians in Congress and around the country, and in the enormous cash donations from hundreds of wealthy "friends." This is how dynasties are built to endure.

But at the highest level, in the inner councils, such feudal allegiances often require awful sacrifice and compromise. For those who now work for George W. Bush, loyalty means surrendering professional integrity and accepting public humiliation. Loyalty means uttering words and phrases that nobody can believe. Loyalty means misleading the people and the press about the gravest matters of state.

Loyalty means lying.

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http://www.nyobserver.com/pages/story.asp?ID=7632

[Cha]

1. Living means lying to that gang of murdering thugs.

And now they have to lie 1000 times as fast to Survive.

[Dhalgren]

2. And Condie, and rumsfeld

and the whole bunch are going to be in the same boat as Kissinger; they won't be able to travel out of the country because they will be under international indictment and will be arrested (ala Pinochet) anywhere in the world where law and order prevail.

Oh, she'll be rich and even honored in certain low-rent, mafioso-style, plaid and sausages crowds, but good people will shun her and her ilk like the plague carriers they are. Condie is Afreican- American? Yeah, so's Clarence Thomas. Ha!