"Waiting for the Truth on Iraq"

Watching and waiting with attempted detachment to the disgusting and bloody American political environment one wonders if one—just one—United States politician anywhere will ever just speak the plain truth about Iraq: we lied to ourselves and our people to wage a terrible war we now cannot fix. We’re getting the hell out of Iraq, all of us, and doing the best we can with what we’re left with. So far official Washington DC Establishment insists on lying to the people to an increasing tempo of baffling bullshit (we’re going, we’re staying, we’re losing, we’re winning, we’re surging, we’re bringing our boys home) until it finally just all becomes white media noise, until the truth is spoken, some glorious day, all the rationalization chatter becomes totally meaningless, just a long wait for liars to grow up.... Dick Cheney and George Bush, Democrats and Republicans in Congress, the Supreme Court, the Pentagon, the corporate Media, politicians running for President: the great America is lead by lying murderers. Jesus Christ, we and all the freaking planet know, okay? We know. You’re thieves who squandered and stole the greatest fortune of all time. We get it. There isn’t anything to report but losing and failure for the country’s strategic and moral interests. No shit, you chattering dunces! Yet all our blathering political and media class to this very day run around in circles of fantasy about Iraq, insisting on lying to themselves that they can yap their way out of this roaring maelstrom of failure, simply oblivious that everyone else knows the truth and has been wondering for a long, long time if American leadership can ever stop lying to itself, no matter how comical or utterly pathetic the delusion becomes. Until the lying stops Iraq will continue to sear the US into humiliating failure and defeat, for once nothing can cover for America this time. There is no way out if except openly accepting all the horrible truth about what we’ve done, and some days it seems as if our DC leadership never will pass beyond adolescence and admit the plain truth. We’re lying killers, we lost the war, we squandered a trillion dollars, there is no way to fix any of it. Until it’s plainly spoken for the love of baby Jesus have the sense to shut up, it’s embarrassing to hear all the lying year after year, finally wake up and realize no one’s listening until the truth is spoken. - Paradox