Why didn’t the folks responsible for providing for the medical needs of our wounded servicemen and women tell the White House that things were not going well? Because Bush does not want bad news; he does not know how to get anything done and does not want anyone letting the public know there are problems. Everything is absolutely perfect on The Decider’s watch, and it is always some else’s fault anyway.
A whole bunch of people have learned the hard way that no news is good news. Those who have opened their mouths anyway have been trashed for their candor-Paul O’Neill, Richard Clark, General Anthony Zinni, Michael Brown, Hans Blix, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, Joseph Wilson, Colin Powell and French fries have been smeared to name but a few.
Like at Abu Ghraib, the usual suspects have been rounded up-anyone who disagrees with the White House-and offered as sacrificial lambs of blame for not telling Bush what he did not want to hear. After all, he’s The Decider and not The Listener.
Hey, we got trouble with a capital “B” and that rhymes with “P” and that stands for “propaganda.” So it’s business as usual: hear no evil, see no evil and do no good.
-Sam Osborne
West Branch, IA
