WTF Is It Now?!?

Desertie McAwol's big adventure
"Look, unca Karl! I'm flying! Wheeeeeee!"

'The military personnel on their way back to the US were used as a prop for a publicly financed political photo-op - Bush landing on the carrier deck in a fighter plane dressed as a pilot. Of course Bush's real military record was nothing short of disgraceful. He used his father's influence to avoid Vietnam and obtain a spot in the Texas Air National Guard, from which he went AWOL for over a year.

'Bush later delivered a speech on the deck in front of a huge banner reading "Mission Accomplished.". The speech, of course, was as fraudulent as his pilot costume. The absurd linking of Iraq with 9/11 and Al Qaeda - evidence of which the administration has never been able to supply - was repeated. The oft-mentioned weapons of mass destruction that were used to justify an attack on a virtually defenseless country have never been found, but were shamelessly dragged out again. "The regime" can't give anybody the missing WMDs anymore because it no longer exists. Repeat lies often enough and they become truth.

'The press, having abdicated its responsibility to scrutinize anything that even remotely involves flag-waving went along for the ride.' - from Mike McArdle's column 'Commander-in-Costume', at DemoUnderground.