ThinkingBlue: THE BUSH MYTHS

I receive many emailed articles from my cyber friends, and some,
I elaborate on and deliver to this blog, in hopes that "we the people"
(democrats, republicans, independents or no political affiliations -
whatever rock they may be hiding under) will read and become informed
about what is going on behind the now "NOT SO CLOSED DOORS" of the Whitehouse.
It must really irk the neocons that they couldn't
achieve the fascist-like government they were aiming for. I wished I
was a fly on the wall when this bunch of SPOILED CHILDREN
get together and try to figure out WHAT WENT WRONG!
I wonder if they point fingers at each other yelling "YOUR FAULT NOT
MINE!" or "I TOLD YOU THAT WOULDN'T WORK!"
Then, after the name/blame game ends will they try to put their
now deflating BIG HEADS together and figure out a new strategy on how to
re-dupe the public into believing their lies again. I hope we won't
see a sequel to 9/11, that is those of us who might live through it.
Anyway, I am very thankful that the curtain of secrecy has been made a bit
transparent, to allow us to see the many fallacies, these so-called
upstanding American leaders have told.
Although, many of us saw through this veil of mendacity, at the beginning but were
told we were not seeing the truth only seeing through our hatred of Bush
and his minions. I, myself, wondered, at times if maybe there might be
some truth in what the Bush lovers were telling us... that is how the
neocons operated ... divide the populace, make them turn on each other and
conquer the whole lot. Let us hope and pray that this is all behind us now
but I being of a cynical nature, believe they have not emptied their
sleeves of trickeries and we have not seen the last of the con games, from
the neo-CONS, not by a long shot!
Below is a short article by the American Hero Paul Krugman. With words, he
tries to explain the what, why, where and how these con artists have tried
to manipulate the media, we the people and the world (with some success)
into believing their version of reality. A reality so frightening and
horrific, your worst nightmare couldn't compare to it. Thinking Blue

PS: Expressing many thanks to my cyber-friends for sending the many articles from
the Internet, that has helped me understand the true extent of deceit the
Bush Administration has enveloped us in.
Please click on pictures to go to articles reflecting the pics.
Ending the Fraudulence
By Paul Krugman
The New York Times Monday 31 October 2005

Let me be frank: it has been a long political nightmare.
For some of us, daily life has remained safe and comfortable, so
the nightmare has merely been intellectual:
we realized early on that this administration was cynical,
dishonest and incompetent, but spent a long time unable to get
others to see the obvious. For others - above all, of course, those Americans risking their lives in a war whose real rationale has never been explained - the nightmare
has been all too concrete.
READ"THE WAR BEHIND CLOSED DOORS"
So is the nightmare finally coming to an end? Yes, I think so.
I have no idea whether Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor, will
bring more indictments in the Plame affair. In any case, I don't
share fantasies that Dick Cheney will be forced to resign; even
Karl Rove may keep his post. One way or another, the Bush
administration will stagger on for three more years. But its
essential fraudulence stands exposed, and it's hard to see how
that exposure can be undone.

What do I mean by essential fraudulence? Basically,
I mean the way an administration with an almost unbroken record of policy failure has nonetheless achieved political dominance through a carefully cultivated set of myths.
The record of policy failure is truly remarkable. It
sometimes seems as if President Bush and Mr. Cheney are Midases in
reverse: everything they touch - from Iraq reconstruction to
hurricane relief, from prescription drug coverage to the pursuit
of Osama - turns to crud. Even the few apparent successes turn out
to contain failures at their core: for example, real G.D.P. may be
up, but real wages are down.
The point is that this administration's political triumphs have never been based on its real-world achievements, which are few and far between. The administration has, instead, built its power on myths: the myth of presidential leadership, the ugly myth that the administration is patriotic while its critics are not. Take away those myths, and the administration has nothing left.
Well, Katrina ended the leadership myth, which was already fading as the war dragged on.
There was a time when a photo of Mr. Bush looking out the window
of Air Force One on 9/11 became an iconic image of leadership.
Now, a similar image of Mr. Bush looking out at a flooded New
Orleans has become an iconic image of his lack of connection.
Pundits may try to resurrect Mr. Bush's reputation, but his cult of personality is dead - and the inscription on the tombstone reads, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."
Meanwhile, the Plame inquiry, however it winds up, has
ended the myth of the administration's monopoly on patriotism,
which was also fading in the face of the war.
Apologists can shout all they like that no laws were
broken, that hardball politics is nothing new, or whatever. The
fact remains that officials close to both Mr. Cheney and Mr. Bush
leaked the identity of an undercover operative for political
reasons. Whether or not that act was illegal, it was
clearly unpatriotic.
And the Plame affair has also solidified the public's growing doubts about the administration's morals. By a three-to-one margin, according to a Washington Post poll, the
public now believes that the level of ethics and honesty in the government has declined rather than risen under Mr. Bush.

So the Bush administration has lost the myths that sustained its mojo, and with them much of its power to do harm.
But the nightmare won't be fully over until two things happen.
First, politicians will have to admit that they were misled. Second, the news media will have to face up to their role in allowing incompetents to pose as leaders and political apparatchiks to pose as patriots.
It's a sad commentary on the timidity of most
Democrats that even now, with Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin
Powell's former chief of staff, telling us how policy was
"hijacked" by the Cheney-Rumsfeld "cabal," it's hard to
get leading figures to admit that they were misled into supporting
the Iraq war. Kudos to John Kerry for finally saying just that last week.
And as for the media: these days, there is much harsh,
justified criticism of the failure of major news organizations,
this one included, to exert due diligence on rationales for the
war. But the failures that made the long nightmare
possible began much earlier, during the weeks after 9/11,
when the media eagerly helped our political leaders build up a completely false picture of who they were.
So the long nightmare won't really be over until journalists ask themselves: what did we know, when did we know it, and why didn't we tell the public?

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