{"article":{"id":58021,"heading":"Ha, ha SUCKERS.","author":"C\/O Diogenes","created":"2003-05-19 01:32:32","modified":"2013-11-11 00:22:32","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:22:32","article":"

BushCo Reams Nation Good

No WMDs after all, no excuse for war, too late for anyone to care anymore. Ha-ha, suckers

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist

Wednesday, May 14, 2003

©2003 SF Gate

URL: http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/gate\/archive\/2003\/05\/14\/notes051403.DTL<\/a>



Ha-ha-ha oh man did we ever get smacked on that one. Conned big time. Punk'd like dogs. Just gotta shake your head, laugh it off. They reamed us but good, baby! Damn.

Turns out it really was all a big joke after all. The war, that is. All a big fat nasty murderous oil-licking lie, a sneaky little power-mad game with you as the sucker and the world as the pawn and BushCo as the slithery war thug, the dungeon master, the prison daddy. You really have to laugh. Because it's just so wonderfully ridiculous. In a rather disgusting, soul-draining sort of way.

See, there are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. No WMDs at all. Isn't that great? What's more: There never were. Ha-ha-ha. Gotcha!

No warehouses teeming with nuclear warheads, no underground bunkers packed with vats of boiling biotoxins, no drums of crazy-ass chemical agents that will melt your skin and turn us all into drooling flesh-eating zombies -- unless, of course, you count the sneering vat of conservative biotoxin that is, say, Fox News, in which case, hell yeah baby, we gotcher WMDs right here beeyatch.

Go figure. Those lowly U.N. inspectors were right after all. Who knew? It was all a ruse. We've been sucker-punched and ideologically molested and patriotically sodomized and hey, what the hell, who cares anyway, we \"liberated\" an oppressed people most Americans secretly loathe and fear and don't understand in the slightest, even though that was never the point, or the justification, or the goal. Go team.

But wait, is liberation of a brutalized and tormented people now the reason? The justification for our thuggery? That is so cool! So that means we're going to blow the living crap out of Sri Lanka and Sudan and Tibet and North Korea and about 47 others, right? Right? Maybe Saudi Arabia, too, second only to the Taliban itself in its abuse of women? Cool! As if.

Ah, but screw the liberal whiny peacenik U.N. inspectors, you know? Let's ask the U.S. search teams themselves, ShrubCo's own squadrons of biologists, chemists, arms-treaty enforcers, nuclear operators, computer and document experts and Special Forces troops who've been in Iraq for weeks now, searching frantically.

Surely they've found something, right? Surely we can now prove that Saddam was fully intending to fillet our babies and annihilate Florida and poke the eyes out of really cute kittens on national TV for sadistic pleasure, right? Gimme a hell yeah!

Whoops. Bad news. As The Washington Post reports, the 75th Exploitation Task Force, the very serious-minded group heading up all U.S. inspections in Iraq, the group absolutely certain it would immediately find steaming neon-lit stockpiles of WMDs piled right next to Saddam's personal stash of gay porn and Britney Spears posters and opium pipes, is coming home with its tail between its legs. Found nothing. Nada.

Psychopatriots are a little nonplussed. Bush is merely \"embarrassed.\" Peace advocates are sighing and drinking heavily. We have done this ghastly horrible inane hate-filled entirely unprovoked thing in the name of power and petroleum and military contracts and strategic empire building, our nation is numb and more bitterly divisive than ever and our leaders are not the slightest bit ashamed.

But of course you're not the slightest bit shocked. You knew it all along. The WMD line was just a ploy that, tragically, much of the nation bought into like a sucker pyramid scheme after being pounded into submission with hammers of fear and Ashcroftian threats and bogus Orange Alerts and having their tweezers confiscated at the airport.

And of course the capacity to be outraged and appalled has been entirely drained out of you, out of this nation, replaced by raging ennui and sad resentment and the new fall season on NBC. This is what they're counting on. Your short attention span. WMDs? That's so, like, last February. Hey look, the swimsuit model won \"Survivor\"!

Because now it's all done. Like a bad trip to the dentist where your routine cleaning turned out to be a bloody excruciating root canal and 50 hours of high-pitched drilling and $100 billion in god-awful cosmetic surgery, now the bandages come off. Smile, sucker. We're at peace once again. Sort of. But not really. Don't you feel better now? No? Too bad. No one cares what you think.

It's all over but the shouting. And the screaming. And the endless years of U.S. occupation in the Middle East, the quiet building of U.S. military bases in Iraq so we can keep those uppity bitches Syria and Egypt and Lebanon in line, forge ahead with the long-standing plan to strong-arm those damn Islamic nuts into brutal compliance with Bushco's bleak blueprint for World Inc. What, too bitter? Hardly.

Should we care that Osama, the actual perp of 9\/11, is still running around free? That terrorism hasn't been quelled in the slightest? That the Mideast is more of a U.S.-hating powder keg than ever, thanks to BushCo? That the economy is in the worst shape it's been in decades?

Should we care that we just massacred tens of thousands of Iraqi (and Afghan) civilians and soldiers and suffered a little more than 100 U.S. casualties and have absolutely nothing to show for it except bogus force-fed pride and this weird, sickening sense that we just executed something irreparable and ungodly and karmically poisonous?

Nah. Just laugh it off. Have a glass of wine, make love, go play Frisbee with the dog. Breathe deep and focus on what's truly important and try to assimilate this latest atrocity into your backstabbed worldview, add it to the list of this lifetime's spiritual humiliations, as you wait for the next barrage, the imminent announcement that we're about to do it all again.

Steel yourself. Protect your soul. Because man, they reamed us good. Slammed this nation like a bad joke. Gotcha! Ha-ha-ha.

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<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":""It's all over but the shouting. And the screaming. And the endless years of U.S. occupation in the Middle East, the quiet building of U.S. military bases in Iraq so we can keep those uppity bitches Syria and Egypt and Lebanon in line, forge ahead with the long-standing plan to strong-arm those damn Islamic nuts into brutal compliance with Bushco's bleak blueprint for World Inc. What, too bitter? Hardly. "","numcomment":19,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/05\/58021.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":58022,"heading":"Just try to keep...","article":"...the dead and mangled bodies out of your mind. Turn on the TV. Have some more anesthetic. Tell yourself over and over "it's not about the Oil".","author":"Diogenes","parent_id":58021,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-19 01:34:46","modified":"2003-05-19 01:34:46","fileurl":""},{"id":58026,"heading":"no no...","article":"-Should we care that Osama, the actual perp of 9\/11, is still running around free?-\r\ndo we EVEN have this above conjecture to feel confident\r\nabout 'knowing'?\r\nBS\r\nProve it.","author":"Sheepdog","parent_id":58021,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-19 01:53:57","modified":"2003-05-19 01:53:57","fileurl":""},{"id":58049,"heading":"?","article":">See, there are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. No WMDs at all. Isn't that great? What's more: There never were. Ha-ha-ha. Gotcha! \r\n\r\nThis makes no sense. If there were no WMD's, why didn't Saddam come clean about there not being any? The UN required that he show evidence that all WMD's were destroyed and the sanctions would be lifted. Why wouldn't he do that seeing that he had no WMD's? Why frustrate the UN inspectors for 12 years to where they eventually left if he had the evidence that they were all destroyed?\r\n\r\nFor someone who had no WMD's, he sure went to a lot of trouble to make people believe that he did.","author":"?","parent_id":58021,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-19 09:47:27","modified":"2003-05-19 09:47:27","fileurl":""},{"id":58051,"heading":"Sheepdog","article":""...Osama, the actual perp of 9\/11..."\r\n\r\nHaven't you been paying attention? It was the Global Right Wing\/Zionazi Conspiracy (tm) that did it!\r\n\r\nYou gotta read the script, dude. Now we have to shoot this scene all over.","author":"daveman","parent_id":58021,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-19 09:59:39","modified":"2003-05-19 09:59:39","fileurl":""},{"id":58053,"heading":"Again","article":"your empty words show the poverty of your side.\r\n-Should we care that Osama, the actual perp of 9\/11, is still running around free?- \r\n do we EVEN have this above conjecture to feel confident \r\n about 'knowing'? \r\n BS \r\n Prove it.","author":"Sheepdog","parent_id":58021,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-19 11:34:55","modified":"2003-05-19 11:34:55","fileurl":""},{"id":58054,"heading":"well actually","article":"Hi sheepdog.\r\n\r\nTurns out we do KNOW for sure as his numerous videotaped confessions and boastings back up all the evidence tha points to him.\r\n\r\nThink about it.\r\n\r\nI'm off to play baseball.","author":"fresca","parent_id":58021,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-19 11:37:37","modified":"2003-05-19 11:37:37","fileurl":""},{"id":58057,"heading":"funny and sad","article":"none of those pieces of dog shit proves anything but the fact that we have a well trained, self muzzled media.","author":"Sheepdog","parent_id":58021,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-19 11:44:55","modified":"2003-05-19 11:44:55","fileurl":""},{"id":58077,"heading":"And that falls into the...","article":"...conspiracy theory.\r\n\r\n"There's no proof, because they're that good!"\r\n\r\nIf they were that good, there would be no dissent or "unofficial" opinions allowed.\r\n\r\nBut looky here! What is it? It's IndyMedia, full of dissent and "unofficial" opinions!\r\n\r\nHow about that...guess there's no conspiracy, after all.","author":"daveman","parent_id":58021,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-19 18:20:15","modified":"2003-05-19 18:20:15","fileurl":""},{"id":58081,"heading":"gee daveman","article":"because YOU say so I guess there couldn't be any\r\nthing but a wide variety of opinions and investigations.\r\nnope, couldn't be a poodle press.","author":"Sheepdog","parent_id":58021,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-19 18:37:29","modified":"2003-05-19 18:37:29","fileurl":""},{"id":58095,"heading":"Think about it, Sheepdog.","article":"The Global Right-Wing\/Zionazi Conspiracy (GRWZC) is so powerful it's tearing down the Constitution and terraforming the Middle East.\r\n\r\nSo it ain't gonna put up with no uppity IndyMedia. So they shut it down.\r\n\r\nOh, wait...IndyMedia's still here. So there can't be a GRWZC then, can there?\r\n\r\nUnless, as Dio rationalizes, Indy's too piddly to take notice of. \r\n\r\nBut, you guys keep claiming you're the last bastion of freedom on the planet!\r\n\r\nTo simplify: \r\nBig conspiracy = no IndyMedia.\r\nOR \r\nIndyMedia = no big conspiracy.\r\n\r\nMake up your mind. You can't have it both ways.","author":"daveman","parent_id":58021,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-19 22:12:18","modified":"2003-05-19 22:12:18","fileurl":""},{"id":58136,"heading":"Creating an illusion...","article":"... is central to manipulating them. Goebbels and Hitler (and American Edward Bernays) were expert at convincing people of the truth of lies.\r\n\r\nWith a Government that seems to feel free to violate the Constitution that provides it's mandate the question is how really free are we?\r\n\r\nPatriot Act: Violates the 1st, 4th, 6th, and 8th Amendments to the Constitution (part of the "BILL OF RIGHTS" last I checked.\r\n\r\nHomeland Sekurity Act: Violates the 1st, 2nd, guts the 4th almost completely, 5th and 10th Amendments.\r\n\r\nBecause the hand of the ubergovernment has not shut down outlets such as Indymedia simply could indicate they no longer fear the few remaining voices in opposition to the Rape of the Republic. Certainly you see no widespread reporting on the very real abuses of power going on. What little debate is allowed is confined to the Internet which has a multitude of paid spinmeisters to keep people confused. That, and that most people, falsely, believe that we are still as free as we were at the founding of this nation.\r\n\r\nThe Average German at the Height of the Third Reich's Power thought they were free and probably would have been insulted to hear anyone assert otherwise. That does not mean they were free just that they had fooled themselves into thinking they were free.","author":"Diogenes","parent_id":58021,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-20 00:20:58","modified":"2003-05-20 00:20:58","fileurl":""},{"id":58139,"heading":"The germans who did well","article":"rather liked the way their country and government\r\nwas operating...untill the bombs started to fall\r\nand the graves began to fill as services were cut.","author":"Sheepdog","parent_id":58021,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-20 00:26:05","modified":"2003-05-20 00:26:05","fileurl":""},{"id":58141,"heading":"Sadly true.","article":"Those who profitted from the Third Reich, like say umm - the Bush Family, liked what they were doing. And Mussolini got the Trains running on time.\r\n\r\nA point I meant to make and left out of my last post was that creating the illusion of freedom is central to controlling the society and getting maximum labor out of the slaves. If the pawns running the Government come down too hard you destroy the illusion and the Sheeple who are now comfortably coasting along semi-free would realize they have been had. Then things become ugly - and likely ungovernable except by extreme force and draconian measures. As it is we are moving perilously close to that now.\r\n\r\nAnyone who is silly enough to think the un-Patriot Act and der Vaterland Sekurity Act are about catching terrists' are among the deluded. They are aimed at us - the people who are still struggling to remain free.\r\n\r\nNotice new Gun Control measures cropping up - that is not aimed at terrists' but at the armed citizenry. The powers that be do not like Peasant's with Pitchforks. Makes em' nervous - kind of like a too tight "necktie".","author":"Diogenes","parent_id":58021,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-20 00:37:08","modified":"2003-05-20 00:37:08","fileurl":""},{"id":58143,"heading":"speaking of...","article":"...iron, what did you get? Do you like it?","author":"Sheepdog","parent_id":58021,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-20 00:49:31","modified":"2003-05-20 00:49:31","fileurl":""},{"id":58144,"heading":"Haven't got it yet...","article":"...but I think I will take your advice and go with the '06. I had to table it temporarily as I had to buy a few other things. However, I may have an opportunity to pick up a few extra bucks which I can put in the old tin can that I use for such long term necessities.\r\nThanks for asking.","author":"Diogenes","parent_id":58021,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-20 01:22:36","modified":"2003-05-20 01:22:36","fileurl":""},{"id":58147,"heading":"Maybe,","article":"I thought the ban on assult rifles was closing.\r\nEver try an SKS? They're nice.","author":"Sheepdog","parent_id":58021,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-20 01:31:04","modified":"2003-05-20 01:31:04","fileurl":""},{"id":58148,"heading":"I rather lean toward the Mini -14...","article":"...because it's a dual use Weapon. It would make a good Elk Gun. My Great Aunt, May she Rest In Peace, got me hooked on Elk Sausage and Eggs for Breakfast and I haven't had any in ages. From the looks of it the only way I'm going to get is if I fend for myself. Damn that Woman could Cook!\r\n\r\nDarn! Now you got my tastebuds all a' flutter.","author":"Diogenes","parent_id":58021,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-20 01:40:02","modified":"2003-05-20 01:40:02","fileurl":""},{"id":58248,"heading":"Sheepdog & Diogenes","article":"I just love you two gun nuts!","author":"Charlton Heston","parent_id":58021,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-20 14:26:13","modified":"2003-05-20 14:26:13","fileurl":""},{"id":58252,"heading":"An interesting number.","article":"Switzerland REQUIRES all Men between 18 and 42 to have a MILITARY Rifle in their home.\r\n\r\nSwitzeland has one of the lowest crime rates of all nations.\r\n\r\nInteresting eh?\r\n\r\nThe right to keep and bear arms is a threat to tyrants only.","author":"Diogenes","parent_id":58021,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-20 14:30:21","modified":"2003-05-20 14:30:21","fileurl":""}]}