This week indictments are likely to be handed down against senior members of this administration. In preparation for this we have already seen the media maneuver to downplay it. Richard Cohen had the gall to suggest that the prosecutor should go home if he cannot prosecute the larger violations, as if perjury and conspiracy are just minor laws. Anyone who sat through the Clinton impeachment debacle knows how important the rule of law was supposed to be to the republicans. Chris Matthews said this week that the prosecutor should "shut the hell up" if he cannot bring specific charges, trying to make Patrick Fitzgerald out to be the bad guy if he has the nerve to name someone like Cheney an un-indicted co-conspirator. Meanwhile the truth is out there screaming in captivity; the true victim.
Yes, Valerie Plame is a victim as is her husband who has seen his reputation tarnished simply for doing his job honestly. Certainly the 2,000 dead soldiers are victims. They are victims of an ideology that believes in a Machiavellian style of justice. This ideology says who cares if you lie to start a war? It says that whatever their preset end is, it always justifies the means. The media in this country were supposed to protect us from such ideology. They were supposed to stand up to the lies and defend the truth. Instead they have become the salespersons for the ideology, the pimps for it and thus the true victim becomes the very truth we have lost. It is like a bad MasterCard commercial.
Iraq War - cost? $203,000,000,000 (and counting).
Iraq War - cost? The reputation of our country and our very soul as forfeit.
Manipulating the media to the point where even the New York Times sells your lies to go to war?
Priceless.
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