The Memory Hole Is Clogged

Well, well, well. Our Dear Leader is getting desperate, isn't he? President Bush -- the employer of more spin doctors than Fox, Microsoft, and Disney combined -- actually had the nerve to accuse his opponents of being "revisionist historians." Meanwhile, Generalissimo Rove has mobilized the spin doctors and the attack pundits to revise history as quickly and completely as possible.

Translation: The memory hole is clogged, and no amount of spin is clearing out the mess.

What we are witnessing is more than mere damage control. The people who hold Dubya's strings are watching Blair being slowly shredded to death by the staggering absence of evidence of the "coalition's" many claims, and see their puppet's own future in the slowly growing mutters of indignation here in America. Ironically, they are still insisting on Saint George's purity -- more on this tactic in a future entry. Nevertheless, the other half of the standard Neo-Republican defense -- change the subject -- isn't working.

Over the past year and a half, America's obsession with terrorism has allowed the Bush administration to get away with murder, from hogtying Lady Liberty to slashing taxes (which somehow makes us safer in spite of cutting vital services to the troops) to waving the military around like a drunken Contra with a Kalashnikov. Any time the opposition got too uppity, President Luthor (aka Karl Rove) would just instruct his hit-pundits to howl about "treason" and "patriotism" and the center (including most Democrats) would cave like Homer Simpson offered a donut. The subject would get dropped, except among outraged progressive bloggers who would chew over the latest indignity, and the NuCon steamroller would just keep rolling.

This time is different, however. The Evil Genius made one tremendous mistake: you can obfuscate actual evidence, but as Saddam himself learned, there's just no hiding a big fat absence. Right now, there's no bigger nothing than the total lack of (forgive the now-tired buzzword) weapons-of-mass-destruction. Every false alarm increases skepticism, none more so than the discovery that the two trailers that Bush declared "proof" of WMDs were hydrogen-producing facilities for balloons, sold to Iraq legitimately -- by Britain.

Meanwhile, the left has been gleefully revealing the obscene revisionist lies for what they are -- by dragging out the administration's own words on Iraq from before the war. There's just too much mass, and the memory hole isn't big enough for it all to fit. People are starting to ask questions, and the administration doesn't have any good answers.

Now, we have to resist that forgetfulness even more. The mainstream media is finally asking the questions that many of us were asking as far back as September of 2002. Asking these questions is no mere quest for retribution -- Americans and Iraqis alike are dying needlessly every day while our country's global reputation continues to plummet. The situation is only likely to get worse unless we do something about it.

(/) Roland
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