The lies keep comin'!!

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

I was flabbergasted to discover that revisionism now takes place instantaneously!! I am certainly no Hezbollah supporter...altho...I think I do understand some of the issues that keeps them alive and well as an active player in the region. Nor do I condone much of the IDF reaction to Hezbollah's actions altho I do understand, I believe, the Israeli mindset with regard to their existential discomfort vis a vis Hezbollah.

But...to read the bombastic and fallacious headline that Israel won and that Hezbollah lost...this coming from President George Bush's own lips...absolutely floored me!!Are we to accept this kind of preposterous rhetoric as anything but pure misinformation...not even able to cut him some slack and call it disinformation.

I, for one, would be appalled if anyone accepted this as fact. There were clearly no winners in this conflict..only losers...mostly the Lebanese who lost citizens and neighborhoods, businesses and livelihoods.

And how did the U.S. comport itself?? We sent the Israelis weapons and arms and we sent the Lebanese relief aid. We discouraged an end to hostilities while we let the IDF run wild. We, according to Sy Hersh, as much as encouraged Israel to take out Hezbollah as a prelude for our designs upon Iran, the next domino in the George Bush/neocon "democratization" of the region. This so called democratization is just a fancy word for U.S. hegemony in the Middle East and U.S. control of oil.

There is no way we can trust a government that habitually lies about, misrepresents and obfuscates these vital issues. We can not let the Bush administration continue to play the fear card, to have carte blanch with this so called "War on Terrorism" or to regularly and consistently deceive the American public. And...it is evident that we are not letting GWB play us like an old fiddle when he and Karl Rove and Dick Cheney resort to these same worn out and overused ploys.

Please continue to speak out against these policies...write your elected officials, refuse to be a automoton, get involved...

The future of the world may lie in our hands!!!

trickster108