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Patrice Greanville
Note: This piece ran originally on December 19, 2011. With the war drums beating ever louder now to push the US and the world into a far larger war than even Iraq and Afghanistan put together, the m.o. of these criminals—from the creatures in the White House to the repellent pundits sprinkled throughout the scoundrel media—deserves to be commemorated. Basically they’re using the same cynical playbook. How many Nuremberg-class crimes must happen for the people of the United States to say “Enough!”?
Bush 2: This war criminal never left. He’s still in the White House. His policies and spirit just found a much better salesman.
The power of the corporate media to deceive the people is simply astonishing, but, mind you, it depends on an already distracted, ignorant, semi-passive multitude whose marching values have been carefully cultivated.
In 2003 we went into Iraq under scandalously false pretexts, guns blazing—bragging about our ability to deliver “shock and awe” with impunity (the mark of the bully) and with one goal in mind: to rob and rape that country blind of its riches. The official excuse was that Iraq and Saddam were mortal threats that had to be neutralized.
Within a matter of weeks if not days, the official line—adopted without missing a beat by almost the entire punditocracy—was that we had gone in “to save Iraq”, “make it a democracy,” and all the rest of the self-serving claptrap we use over and over again to justify our uber-criminal behavior. With a straight face the official voices declared that those who had the audacity to resist our criminal violence were ingrates. Don’t believe it? You may be forgiven: it is rather unbelievable.
Not too long after that, another somersault in logic and truth took place. This time the contortion was of Olympian quality, as we saw the same filthy pundits—a great many of them liberals—talking with a straight face (as did the man in the White House and other administration flacks) that if the Iraqis continued to “misbehave”, continued attacking our troops, imagine that, “we’d leave”—yeah, that’s right, their punishment would be that we, the self-annointed saviors, would leave! Buwahahahahahahah….! Isn’t that a threat to shit in your pants? They didn’t receive us as liberators!
Silly question
What would you do if you were the victim of a brutal home invasion; if they raped your wife and daughter, killed your animals, beat the shit out of you, and robbed you blind, to boot—oh, and reduced your house to rubble—and then they declared with a straight face that if you were not grateful for all that, if you didn’t beg them to stay…they’d leave? How’s that for the mother of all Orwellian nonsense?
Only with a totally confused public can the revolting media creatures who pass for journalists and commentators in this country foist such a huge con on the public mind…with nary an audible protest.
Yeah, it’s pathetic alright. And if we don’t watch it, if we don’t draw a line in the sand, it will happen again.
Patrice Greanville founded The Greanville Post, where he now serves as editor in chief.
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