Words

"Washington D.C. is so drowned in words and disconnected from reality that it resembles an open-air insane asylum." So wrote Charley Reese on Antiwar.com today.

How can one not agree with that assessment? What are we to think when we hear "our strategy is working," we are going to achieve "total victory," "we do not torture," "we are making progress," "we are fighting them there so as to not fight them here," "we know they have mobile biological labs," "they have reconstituted their nuclear program," "Sadam was having meetings with Osama bin Laden," and other such blatant and obvious lies. These are all just words with no meaning whatsoever, offered to make people think we are about to be imminently attacked, terrorists are here just waiting to strike, Sadam is about to attack us with aircraft, blah, blah, blah. Just words. Empty words.

I would like someone to tell me one true statement that either Bush or Cheney have ever stated. These people seem to think that talking need not have any connection whatsoever with reality. It's just words. Rumsfeld, of course, is the worst. Ask him a question, any question, and he just babbles on mindlessly, his words, if you try to take them seriously, are utterly meaningless. And it goes without saying that anything you hear out of the mouths of Bush/Cheney will merely be words. Words with no meaning attached to them just remain words, and meaning has long since been abandoned by the current administration.

We are never going to "cut and run," at the same time we are trying to develop a strategy to do just that. We will never settle for less than "complete victory," which we know full well is an absolute impossibility. "When the Iraqis stand up we will stand down," even though there is no plan to have anything but a permanent presence in the Middle East as well as permanent bases in Iraq. We are going to "spread democracy" throughout the Middle East. "They hate us because of our freedom." Words, words, words, words, and more words. Like Charley Reese, I no longer even listen to anything that verbally come out of Washington, D.C. Bush/Cheney and the rest of them might as well deliver their (totally lack of message) in pantomime. In fact, whenever Bush or Cheney appear on my television I immediately turn it off as I know it will be nothing more than hollow, meaningless, useless, words. Do not pay any attention to what they say, WATCH WHAT THEY DO. And if you concentrate on what they do you will be so horrified you will demand they be held accountable for their lies and war crimes.