Rule Of Death
By Jason Leopold
07 September, 2005
Countercurrents.org
Another
few thousand bit the dust.
Chalk another one
up for the Bush administration. Thatll be President Bushs
long lasting legacy when we look back on the first few years of the
21st Century. Thousands of people killed on U.S. soil because the president
failed to protect them.
There wont
be any admission of guilt, no one to take responsibility, no one fired
for screwing up, just lies and spin, and mudslinging.
You may be familiar
with some of that already.
I dont
think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees, President Bush
told Diane Sawyer in an interview last week.
Thats a page
right out of Condoleeza Rices playbook.
No one "could
have predicted that they [al-Qaeda] would try to use a
hijacked
airplane as a missile," Rice told the commission investigating
the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2003.
Wrong and wrong.
Or rather, liar, liar.
There were warnings,
memos, emails, phone calls, newspaper reports, meetings, threats, and
cries for help. They were just ignored by the presidet and his administration.
Still, there are
those who refuse to believe that President Bush and his closest advisers
have spent their entire term in office lying to the American public
about everything from the Iraq war to social security to the environment
to Medicaid and so on.
Its all documented;
the lies. In black and white, in intelligence memos, emails, news reports,
transcripts. Even with a mountain of evidence stacked against them,
the Bush administration behaves like sociopaths.
Perhaps the apocalyptic
images of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina will shake these
people into reality. The mainstream media has showed a little bit of
spine and has asked federal officials some tough questions about the
reasons they failed to do their jobs in the aftermath of the hurricane.
Prior to grilling
a former official of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA),
Anderson Cooper, a CNN talking head, cautioned viewers Sunday that the
cable network was going to show gruesome images of corpses scattered
amid the wreckage of New Orleans.
We dont
want to gloss this over, Cooper said as the reason CNN was being
brutally honest in its reporting.
It would have been
nice if those same reporters had a set of balls and asked the same tough
questions before the war started in Iraq and showed its viewers the
same carnage that littered the streets of Baghdad. Theres no doubt
its worse over there. But for now well take what we can get.
Jason Leopold is the author of the explosive memoir, News Junkie, to
be released in the spring of 2006 by Process/Feral House Books. Visit
Leopold's website at www.jasonleopold.com for updates.
© 2005 Jason
Leopold