The northlondonhippy

No, I’m not going to tell you 935 lies. That would be silly and quite frankly, I don’t have the time.

I could, if I so chose, cre­ate pre­cisely 935 care­fully crafted and exceed­ingly believ­able bold­faced lies, but I have no rea­son to do that. I never have rea­son to lie to you at all, ever.

I don’t lie.

And I espe­cially don’t lie when I log in and blog onto my own god­damn website.

Peo­ple who lie, do it for a reason.

Whether it is to obscure the truth to cover some mis­deed or inten­tion or accom­plish some secret goal or fur­ther a pri­vate agenda, lies are moti­vated by something.

Some­times, even gov­ern­ments lie.

OK, gov­ern­ments lie a lot, but it’s not every­day they get caught.

And it’s not every­day they get caught in 935 of them.

There’s that num­ber again: 935.

I didn’t just pull 935 out of my ass, that would be stu­pid and poten­tially painful.

Per­son­ally, I’d be wor­ried by any­one who pulls any­thing out of their ass, but that’s just me. On some sub­jects I am sur­pris­ingly conservative.

But on the sub­ject of inten­tional fab­ri­ca­tion by gov­ern­ments to achieve a heinous and immoral goal, I am one pissed-off, bad-assed moth­er­fucka with an atti­tude and an Uzi.

OK, I don’t have an Uzi. I’d like an Uzi, but my local Uzi shop closed down ages ago and I missed their going out of busi­ness sale.

You’d want an Uzi too if you lived in my north Lon­don ghetto hell. There’s a shoot­ing or a knif­ing around here often enough that I’ve lost track of the num­ber of yel­low police signs solic­it­ing wit­nesses to the lat­est teenaged atrocity.

Yes, I know these teenagers mainly shoot each other, but there’s been a wor­ry­ing trend in middled-aged white guys get­ting kicked to death and I don’t want to be one of them.

Hey, I know the secu­rity ser­vices keep an eye on blogs. Hi guys! I’m on your side and if you’d sup­ply with me a small armoury of weapons, I’d be your bitch. Oh and the promise of a spot in the wit­ness pro­tec­tion pro­gramme after I take out some crack house or Al Qaeda cell sin­gle handledly!

It could happen!

But seri­ously, you guys could recruit me. I’d be a great agent and I’d set­tle for cash. I was only jok­ing about the guns. Well, maybe just a Glock for my trou­ble, please?

Ah-hem.

935 fuck­ing lies! Get to the point.

Here’s the top of the AP report I’ve been refer­ring to since I started:

“A study by two non-profit jour­nal­ism organ­i­sa­tions found that Pres­i­dent Bush and top admin­is­tra­tion offi­cials issued hun­dreds of false state­ments about the national secu­rity threat from Iraq in the two years fol­low­ing the 2001 ter­ror­ist attacks.

The study con­cluded that the state­ments “were part of an orches­trated cam­paign that effec­tively gal­vanised pub­lic opin­ion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decid­edly false pretences.”

The study was posted Tues­day on the Web site of the Cen­ter for Pub­lic Integrity, which worked with the Fund for Inde­pen­dence in Journalism.

The study counted 935 false state­ments in the two-year period.”

Click right here for the source arti­cle in full, please.

As some­one who never believed a word of what they tried to sell us over Iraq, I don’t find this sur­pris­ing. What grabbed me is they were able to doc­u­ment it with this degree of accuracy.

Let’s face it, 935 indi­vid­ual instances of 100% lies being ped­dled as fact to jus­tify a war that was com­pletely unnec­es­sary is aston­ish­ing! It should make our col­lec­tive jaws hit the col­lec­tive floor.

It should be front page news. It should have led news bul­letins around the world.

But did it?

This story hit the wires nearly a week ago. Sorry, my bad for not get­ting around to do some­thing with it until now, but at least I’ve marked it. I’ve brought it to your attention.

Did any­one else? I know a few news­pa­pers men­tioned it, because I read the sto­ries, but I don’t think I saw it on TV.

This is impor­tant shit!

George W (for “won’t you be glad when he’s gone gone GONE!”) Bush and cronies all lied. The Bush regime lies. They are doc­u­mented, unde­ni­able pur­vey­ors of utter false­hoods and fic­tion. They conned us and conned us but good!

I bet Hal­libur­ton and Black­wa­ter and the other war prof­i­teers are gig­gling like school­girls all the way to the prover­bial bank.

And how much has this abor­tion of a war cost us decent, tax-paying mem­bers of mod­ern society?

And how many hun­dreds of thou­sand Iraqi lives were lost? And how many Iraqis dis­placed and maimed?

And how many sol­diers from the coali­tion of the will­ing lost their lives or lost their limbs or lost just a tiny, lit­tle piece of their souls fight­ing for liars and cheats and well, just plain moth­er­fuck­ing cunts?

I’m enraged, I’m incensed. And you should be too! This war was fought in our name, to make us safe.

Do you feel safer know­ing that an entire gen­er­a­tion of peo­ple in the Mid­dle East hate you? Not for your free­dom (because you hardly have any, any­way!), but because of what your lead­ers do to them, in your name.

If you were Iraqi and your entire life was fucked hard, fast and with­out so much as drink bought for you, how would you feel about the peo­ple who fucked you? Would you hate them? Would you want to kill them? Would you be will­ing to give your life to do it?

You’ve lost your job, your home, your sav­ings, your pos­ses­sions and sev­eral close mem­bers of your fam­ily, like your spouse, or par­ents, or chil­dren. Or maybe all of them. You’re liv­ing in some shitty refugee camp in Jor­dan or Syria, where you’re not wanted by your hosts. You’re life is shit and if some­one offered you the option of going to the West and killing the infi­del, you very well might think that was the prefer­able option.

I’m cer­tainly not advo­cat­ing a career as a sui­cide bomber, no sen­si­ble per­son would, but I’m empa­thetic enough to see and feel how some­one in that posi­tion could reach that rather unhappy conclusion.

Geoge Bush Junior did that. He handed the world enough ammo to hate the West for at least a cou­ple more gen­er­a­tions. Thanks, George. Well done! Bet the pri­vate sec­tor can’t wait to get their hands on you!

Less than a year! Yippppeee to that, because anybody’s got to be bet­ter than Bush the lesser.

And who­ever is next to inhabit that big ol’ white house is going to have their work cut out for them, as the bar has been set really high. They’re going to really have to push it if they want to top 935 lies. Let’s just hope their lies are all about the econ­omy or the envi­ron­ment this time, because I am fuck­ing sick of point­less wars that accom­plished absolutely nothing!

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