Dear Gov. Dean -- “Making it up” … Must Be Stopped

[understandinglife]

13 December 2005 (# 8)

Today, Mr. Bush spoke about his war on Iraq. When questioned about the number of dead Iraqi citizens since he began his war, he stated “30, 000, more or less.”

And, then he joked. The juxtaposition of that joke with the topic of dead Iraqi citizens has been noted by others, subsequently, for its callousness.

That’s not the point of this letter, however.

The point of the letter is the ironically truthful content of “the joke.” To wit:

Q Mr. President, thank you –

THE PRESIDENT: I'll repeat the question. If I don't like it, I'll make it up. (Laughter and applause.)

Thank you, Mr. Bush, because that may be the one truthful thing you’ve said about Iraq since 1999.

Indeed, we know all about Bush’s facility of making up stuff.

Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. The NSC had no patience with the UN route, and no enthusiasm for publishing material on the Iraqi regime's record. There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action. – July 23, 2002, The Secret Downing Street Minutes

Link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1593607_1,00.html

Making stuff up is truly the core of Bush’s legacy.

Oh, and then, of course, there’ll be the chapters about killing lots of innocent people, destroying their homes, and their societal infrastructure.

But, through all those chapters, the common thread will be, Bush was a liar and he assembled the most massive government and media propaganda system, in American history, to use against the citizens of America (as well as, elsewhere).

In fact, Bush is so accomplished at making stuff up that we have no more reason to believe “30, 000, more or less,” as he stated today than we have believing anything that comes out of his mouth.

Gov. Dean, America cannot tolerate even another day of Bush (and Cheney’s) deception. We certainly are not going to make it to January, 2009, with these two criminals and their neoconster cohorts in charge.

Gov. Dean, in August of 1974 an honorable Republican, Senator Barry Goldwater, led some of his colleagues to the White House to tell another criminal it was time for him to exit.

I don’t know if a single Republican member of the Senate has the ethics or courage to do what should be done to Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, if for no other reason than to attempt to salvage the Republican Party.

However, Gov. Dean, I do know that we have many ethical, courageous, articulate, and exceptionally knowledgeable Democratic Members of Congress. It is time Gov. Dean, for you and the DNC to adopt what I call the Murtha, Conyers pathway to restoring the Republic.

It is essential that those two gentlemen be, in every conceivable way, enabled to bring their messages (about Iraq, “Downing Street,” “Plame & Niger forgeries,” and election fraud) to every American citizen, daily.

They don’t make stuff up.

They know precisely the lies and the mechanisms being used – from Rendon engineered propaganda; to Diebold (and others) engineered election theft; to Halliburton, Bechtel, BlackwaterUSA (and others) engineered ravaging of Iraqi natural resources.

Gov. Dean, “America, Or Not?”

If your choice is “America,” then call a major media conference, during prime time, and bring Congressman Murtha and Congressman Conyers before their fellow citizens and provide them all the time they need to ensure that their messages are heard, repeatedly.

Many of our fellow citizens already ‘get it’; we need to bring as many more to the truth as quickly as possible in order to create the national ferment of major legal action against Bush and Cheney and major overhaul of the Congress and the media.

Thank you for your continued leadership,


p.s. The folk at The World Affairs Council of Philadelphia responsible for the "Laughter and applause" should be ashamed.