There They Go Again

So discussing funding for the war in Iraq doesn't support the troops. So says Vice President Dick Cheney. Richly ironic, coming from a man who avoided service in the military during wartime some forty years ago. And doubly ironic (and, indeed, "richly" fits here in more ways than one), since today Halliburton's CEO announced that he was moving his office to Dubai. To be closer to the oil.

And infuriating. The government in which Cheney is second-in-command (or heads, depending on who's talking) has created a war under false pretenses, failed to properly equip the soldiers it's sending into harm's way, refused to enter into any sort of negotiations that might help defuse the situation until today--almost 3 years and more than 3000 American lives later--, refuses basic legal rights to anyone it decides doesn't deserve them, and has essentially created a facist dictatorship in the United States.

So why are his statements today even being reported? There's no credibility left in the Bush administration, so this sort of spin should be named for what it is--another part of the neverending and continuous attempt to create a reality by repeating lies and false talking points, over and over again. It's clearly not working, given the polls. But still it goes on. And still these draft-dodging chicken hawks get respect from the press, despite the blood on their hands of thousands of Americans and countless thousands of Iraqis. And all for a series of lies--and to pay back Hussein. And to distract all of us from the administration's manifest failures across the boards.

And like sheeple, we're distracted. We have the government we deserve.