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As the campaign against the people of Iraq languishes in its imperial occupation phase, many of the administration’s vermin are jumping ship and blaming someone else for the catastrophe.
In a Washington Post article of May 13 L. Paul Bremer, former U.S. proconsul of occupied Iraq, is the latest to declare himself blameless and that he handled his part of Bush’s Iraqi oil exploitation policy properly.
I’m reminded of an accident I once had on a snowy winter morning on an icy road in Utah. I was part of a string of cars driving at about 30 mph when my car fishtailed, went into a spin and ended up on its side in a ditch on the other side of the highway. I climbed from my car and after a few minutes a sherif’s deputy arrived and I explained to him what had happened. He listened to my story with interest and presented me with a citation for "driving too fast for conditions." Since I had been moving with a string of cars considerably below the posted speed limit I felt that the citation was unfair. I explained this to the deputy; once again he listened respectfully and when I had finished he quietly pointed out to me, "Sir, your car is in the ditch!"
As I reflected on the incontrovertible evidence of my car overturned in a ditch I had to accept the fact that indeed I hadn't been sufficiently mindful of conditions and that the citation was deserved.
Mr. Bremer and the rest of the administration’s fleeing vermin should accept responsibility for their complicity in the obscene policy that put America in the ditch in Iraq.
