And What Is Truth?

Skybalon's Mom- Did you go to school today?
Skybalon- shocked to be asked- Yeah.
(I did in fact go to school- I just seldom stayed)
Skybalon's Mom- Why did I get a call from school asking where you were?
Skybalon- shrugging -Uhuhuh... There's another Robert Gonzalez there, they sometimes confuse us- maybe they meant the other one. I was at school today. (Really- I had no way of knowing why the school would call and ask where I was- I could speculate but that's not what I was asked to do. And there really was another student there with my name. That was true, and frequently very convenient.)

Ahh what passes for truth to the morally undeveloped... or spiritually dead.

Did you know that the Republican led Senate Select Intelligence Committee- the one group of Senators who had the intelligence clearance to see the actual, "uninterpreted," National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq voted against the authorization for the use of force against Iraq? That's right. Their Republican president wanted to invade Iraq and based on what they saw, they said, "no."

Hippies.

After that, others got the "sanitized" intelligence summary crafted by CIA director George Tenet. This version excluded information that discredited the intelligence and statements used as a justification for war.

"Members of the Congress of both political parties, and members of the United Nations Security Council, agree that Saddam Hussein is a threat to peace and must disarm. We agree that the Iraqi dictator must not be permitted to threaten America and the world with horrible poisons and diseases and gases and atomic weapons. Since we all agree on this goal, the issues is : how can we best achieve it?"
(Sure according to intelligence the threat is being successfully addressed with enormous no fly zones, international sanctions, weapons inspectors, and his own enemies surrounding him but I wants me a war.)

"We know that the regime has produced thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas. Saddam Hussein also has experience in using chemical weapons. He has ordered chemical attacks on Iran, and on more than forty villages in his own country. These actions killed or injured at least 20,000 people, more than six times the number of people who died in the attacks of September the 11th."
(They did produce it- I'm totally telling the truth- they don't have it now- but whatever.)

"We've learned that Iraq has trained al Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and gases."
(Hah we did 'learn' that. But we also know that the CIA finds the source not very credible- stupids)

If you go to this link see if anything in the graphic strikes you as ironic or... say subliminably confessional.

The Adventure and The Resolution- Frank Black
Let Down- Radiohead
New York- Sex Pistols
Army of Me- Bjork