Lie, lie, lie

... this being, of course, the GOP strategy.

Yep. So I catch Rudy Giuliani on The Daily Show, whoring himself out to salvage the party chimp's pathetic flop of a debate performance, doing the same ole lie on a brand new day. Yeah Rudy, that's true, Saddam Hussein could, theoretically, since he was a kinda nasty guy with not insignificant quantities of money, have supported 'global terrorism' (and so, given those standards, could have Cheney, since he's pretty durn nasty too, at least from an aesthetic point of view, though I digress).

But he didn't.

No, Rudy, and you and the GOP can tell the lie until you're blue in the face, making your excuses for the quagmire that dare not speak its name until the cows come home, hell freezes over, and Dubya gets an advanced degree in 'nukyular' physics (all the better to grasp the finer points of yellow cake and aluminum tubes, one could hope), but Hussein's thuggery, as you would know, if you let reality into that weird doublespeak bubble of yours, was pretty focused on his domestic population--and, at worst, his immediate neighbours. And he got along with Al Qaeda about as well as I'd expect I'd get along with a miserable little lying worm like you.

Yeah, it's lovely they busted him, don't get me wrong. But it's the same dynamic as all of your infinitely malleable justifications for your favourite war: I'd be a lot happier about what you're doing and what you've done if I could rub two words of your explanations together without coming across yet another lie. And yes, our brave paladins, it's great you got the bad guy. But seeing as some of you and yours were his accessories not so long ago, I think this whole movie would make a lot more sense to the audience if those of you involved in helping him develop chemical weapons technology--and in passing his military the intelligence data that helped him target his shells--would check yourselves into the dock next to him, to answer for your part in the whole sordid, murderous business.

Seeing, as, apparently, your interest here is in justice.

Getting back to the 'Saddam in cahoots with the terrorists' BS -- what manner of satisfyingly blunt instrument, I find myself wondering rhetorically, is going to get it through these fucking twits' heads? Would it actually help any if someone were to pick them up and physically beat them with the intelligence dossiers? If an enraged mob of ex-analysts were to come to their homes, and forcibly rub their noses in the reports until they turned black from the toner, then would these bloody minded morons get it?

Or, as I suspect, is this lie/belief basically on the same plane as religion. Impervious to reason. It has to be so. Because we believe it.

And because so much is riding on our believing it. And because if we admit otherwise, people might catch on to how profligately and pointlessly we are spending human lives on this swamp of deceit and violence.

And that, one can only presume, would probably be bad news in the polls.

Grief and disgust go hand in hand, and wind their way like poisonous smoke around everything this administration touches.