Hug the truth for dear life

[babylonsister]

http://www.lastchancedemocracycafe.com/?p=1014

Hug the truth for dear life

Brace yourselves, my children, for we’re about to enter into the worst spin fest possible — one built on the bodies of our troops and innocent civilians in Iraq. All hail the mighty surge! There’s no longer any doubt what we’ll be hearing from Petraeus the Great: the surge, he’ll tell us, while only a modest and uneven success, has, nevertheless, been producing more than enough progress to warrant soldiering on.

Much of the media, in some cases on cue, will then swoon. Meanwhile, GOP politicians and pundits — feeling liberated after years of bad news out of Iraq — will go on a “we’re kicking ass” frenzy. And, yes, far too many Democrats will meekly look at General Petraeus’s medals and dissolve into a puddle of Velveeta.

It will all be a fucking lie, of course — one that’s been carefully choreographed through months of meticulously staged congressional junkets to the Green Zone and related media events. Sadly, in the real world, things will continue to degenerate. Eventually the blowback from our strategy of snuggling up to the same Sunni insurgents who’ve been killing our troops (the only thing that’s actually produced some results) will hit us with the force of a tornado. Bottom line: we’ve been trying to play both ends against the middle in a cultural swamp where we don’t know our ass from a hole in the ground. It will end badly.

But for now, with all eyes on Petraeus, it’s the time to hear the squawks of the hawks. And, frankly, it’s going to be a painful spectacle to watch.

So hug the truth for dear life. No matter what, don’t let go — because only an absolute and unflinching commitment to truth, as ugly as it may be, will ever offer us hope of ending this national nightmare.

[H2O Man]

1. Nominated.

We are entering a strange and dangerous phase right now.

[unhappycamper]

2. Rec #4. n/t

[samplegirl]

3. Excellent post

I can only imagine how loud, and long the right wing pundits will pound the airwaves. Nominated.

[0007]

4. This just keeps getting uglier and uglier and just goes to prove

our criminals leaders hold all the cards and have all the power.

We're so screwed!!

[riona]

5. This sums it up

Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[Senator]

6. K&R&I(Impeach Now)

[Major Hogwash]

7. Yeah, and his speech will resound as a hollow brass cymbal throughout the land.

Of those already killed in Iraq, of those about to be killed in Iraq, and of those they plan in the years to come to be killed in Iraq. Yeah, though the leaders of the people make bold sounds of mighty plans, their plans will come to naught before their very eyes and the truth will set upon them. As they lie in their chambers at night, they will be visited upon by the truth, disturbing their slumber and they will not be able to sleep. They will be restless and seek rest, but they shall not find rest. They will grow tired and seek comfort, but they shall not find comfort. They will be as those who came before them who had also committed many sins against the people before me. They fear me not and their mouths are filled with lies and their hearts with darkness. They shall be cut off and removed from the people for they are an abomination unto me.