it doesn't make it better

Telling yourself you are being lied to and believing you are being lied to is one thing. Actually being lied to is quite another. Sitting around saying "Those lying bastards!" because it seemed so obvious and so out there. It couldn't be true. I got all upset I went to protest marches I carried signs. I was right! And the people on the Internet were right and Al Franken was right! And Michael Moore (* when not in screed mode) was right! We were all so right

I wanted to be wrong. I was hoping that somewhere there was a Very Good Reason for all of this, that we had all hyped ourselves up into a lather of indignation because we needed the exercise. The Pundits gleefully, yet solemnly told us the worst case scenario's of a Bush Presidency and what kind of evil the GOP is and what it was capable of and what it was going to do to our country, but since the only place to hear this was on Weekend Update and The Daily Show, we chuckled and asked about the cost of living in Canada.

And those damn pundits were right.

Then we watched the conservatives and their neocon brownshirts rise to power and watched them cloak themselves in our flag and dishonor it.

While they were Dressed in Our Flag they tried to do their best to destroy anyone who disagreed with their version of the American Way by trampling them under the wheels of the Support our Troops! We Must Support The Troops and If You Don't Support The War you Are Not Supporting the Troops! Power of Pride Y'all!!!" bandwagon. And what they were really doing was rolling that bandwagon right over our flag.

And we were still right, 'cause they were wrong! wrong! wrong!

While the bandwagon was going past we stopped hearing The Dixie Chicks on the radio and started to hear Toby Keith because Clear Channel wanted to grease the wheels with the FCC and the best grease was rhetoric and propaganda and encouragement of the war! And the wheels kept turning...

And we were still right and they were still wrong. And then, and then and then .

Those people lied to us! They lied and lied and lied about everything. They lied to us. We elected them, they represent us they are supposed to protect us and they lied to us. They lied to us. It's not a figment of some left wing ideologues fevered anti-Bush agenda. Millions of People believed The Administration because they wanted to believed that our leadership wouldn't take us to war for no reason, that they wouldn't put our soldiers in the line of fire for no reason. No one would do that. They wouldn't do that. They are supposed to protect us. And they certainly wouldn't lie to us about it. Why would they? How Could They!


We got lucky, we were only lied to in order to suit and agenda. These people were killed.