Seeking Honesty in U.S. Policy by Joseph Wilson.

[rodeodance]

older article but seems to be right on the button for this day of decision.

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0915-12.htm



> Published on Sunday, September 14, 2003 by the San Jose Mercury News
> Seeking Honesty in U.S. Policy
> by Joseph Wilson
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> During the gulf war in 1991, when I was in charge of the American Embassy in Baghdad, I placed a copy of Lewis Carroll's ``Alice in Wonderland'' on my office coffee table. I thought it conveyed far better than words ever could the weird world that was Iraq at that time, a world in which nothing was what it seemed: The several hundred Western hostages Saddam Hussein took during Desert Shield were not really hostages but ``guests.'' Kuwait was not invaded, but ``liberated.''
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> It is clearly time to dust the book off and again display it prominently, only this time because our own government has dragged the country down a rabbit hole, all the while trying to convince the American people that life in newly liberated Iraq is not as distorted as it seems.
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> President Bush's speech last Sunday was just the latest example of the administration's concerted efforts to misrepresent reality -- and rewrite history -- to mask its mistakes. The president said Iraq is now the center of our battle against terrorism. But we did not go to Iraq to fight Al-Qaida, which remains perhaps our deadliest foe, and we will not defeat it there.


......But before we can hope to win back international trust or start down a truly new path in Iraq, the administration has to start playing it straight, with the American people and with the world. Recent administration statements, including the president's speech, suggest that it still prefers to live in a fantasy world.

[FloridaPat]

1. Forget the admin playing it straight. Just send them all to jail for

treason and get some ehtical, moral, truthful people in their place. That will be difficult with professional politicians. Especially find some that are more concerned with the Constitution and all the American public instead of just the corporate folks.