Say It Ain’t So Joe

By David Glenn Cox

Again and again and again, That we are under the thumb of a lawless band of criminals I can accept. What I can’t accept however, is that the one group in the world with the power to stop them save the Army, the one group that could rise to occasion at any time and put a stop this. A group that took the same oath as the President, drawing fat paychecks and fiddling while Rome burns has the credulity to again stand on the steps of the Capital and say, “I’m shocked by this behavior”

Come on, give it a rest huh? You’re not shocked or outraged; your complicity makes you an accomplice. Your failure to act makes you just as guilty of high crimes as the rest of them. Looking away and living in elitist fantasyland makes you just as guilty as the person who did the actual waterboarding. So just get off of it, I’m tired of the wishful wimpy washed out well-intentioned wind blown what we should a dones. It’s become and insult to the American public and a charicature of your own failures one and all.

While the world court draws up papers on Cheney and Rumsfeld let us leave space for the second tier rat pack. No different from their Nuremberg counterparts who were put to death proclaiming their innocence of “I didn’t know” or “I was just following orders.” Did anyone believe them? So why should we believe you? You voted to put these cabinet officers in power they pasted muster in your book.

(Democrats and Republicans have denounced the destruction of the tapes and the harsh techniques supposedly recorded on them. But according to the Washington Post, officials say senior legislators were told of the waterboarding interrogation in 2002 and did not object.)

They have denounced, so praise Jesus, job over and now it’s Miller time!

(But Joe Biden, a Democratic presidential candidate and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called for a special counsel to investigate the matter instead.)

Way to go Joe, a special counsel! After six and one half years and now you’re fighting mad … now, how about a strongly worded letter! Yeah, that will show em, you mean business. Joe let me tell you in one word where you’ve gone wrong, Duh.

(Speaking about Michael Mukasey, the attorney-general who heads the justice department, Biden said: "He’s the same guy who couldn’t decide whether or not waterboarding was torture and he’s going to be doing this investigation.” That’s right Joe, "He’s the same guy who couldn’t decide whether or not waterboarding was torture and he’s going to be doing this investigation.”) Duh, Joe? Who put him there? How is it that he sits in that job today?

(It appears as though there may be an obstruction of justice charge here, tampering with evidence, and destroying evidence,”) Biden said.

Oh my God! That statement alone makes you unworthy of office, just when did you figure that out Joe? The 9-11 hearings? Abu Garib? Secret wire taps? Fallujah? Gitmo? The list is like Pinocchio’s nose it just grows longer and longer, but super Joe’s just woke up and is on the job… now.

(I think this leads right into the White House.” There may be a legal and rational explanation, but I don’t see any on the face of it.)

You think Joe? Really? You think? God protect me that I should never own a dog so dumb or a goldfish so smart. Of all the Charlie Brown’s in the world you are the Charlie Browneist. To be that dumb or to think that we are that dumb any way you cipher the equation Joe, you come out looking like a jerk.

(I just think it’s clearer and crisper and everyone will know what the truth is ... if he appoints a special counsel, steps back from it.)

Joe, I don’t think you could be educated about the truth with a two by four. It not truth you seek but cover. Bunker Joe, I didn’t know Joe, say it ain’t so Joe. Shocked and appalled Joe, morally outraged Joe. How bought you give it a rest Joe?

(Chuck Hagel, a Republican senator, said the intelligence committees in the senate and the House of Representatives were investigating the destruction of the tapes to see if justice was obstructed and who in the White House might have known about the tapes’ destruction.)

Another sojourner for truth in the wilds of Washington, as you look for truth Chuck with dumb cluck Joe under your arm, guess who didn’t know?

(Dana Perino, the White House press secretary, said Bush "has no recollection" of hearing about either the tapes’ existence or their destruction before being briefed about it on Thursday morning.)

Oh I believe, I believe, I believe, sure, he has no recollection of it, his own policy the policy that he instigated himself but he has no knowledge of it.

(Michael Hayden, the CIA director who is to testify before congress on Tuesday, told staff last Thursday that the recordings were destroyed out of fear the tapes would leak and reveal the identities of interrogators.)

Right… and Tony Soprano is just an independent businessman employed in the waste removal industry. Hitler was just trying to unify all the Germans in Europe under one flag and Bush was trying to bring peace and democracy to the Iraqi people. Apparently the writers strike has reached Washington, as there is a serious degeneration in the ability of both parties to tell credible lies.

It would be comforting to pat ourselves on the back and say, “maybe we’ve wised up.” Nothing could be further from the truth; it’s not the public getting smarter but the fantasy evaporating right before our eyes. Like pretty snow cover melting away exposing the reality hidden by the pure white political covering. The pretend make believe world of scary terrorists, of flag waving and solider burying bullshit. Of half time fly overs honoring the troops, troops on third and fourth deployments protecting the new Taj Mahal embassy in Iraq while living in Katrina style mobile homes. Honoring the troops by making their children know of them only from photographs and phone calls.

Talk is cheap and we’ve grown weary of such cheap talk of all stripes and by all parties. The time for talk is over, as you are late in performing your duties now. You and the corporate funded cronies dither, wringing your hands saying, “What should we do?” But enough of this scandal laden iceberg lies exposed above the water line so that even a moron would know what to do, but while you simmer we burn.

The American public is rapidly reaching a travis, a nexus, a parting of the ways with the existing political establishment. They are becoming disaffected, disenfranchised and disjointed by your comic Buster Keaton stone-faced explanations. Only the dollar holds less value in international markets than your hollow talk. Hero’s do, politicians talk, either do something or shut the hell up. I’m sick of hearing about what you’re going to do. Do something then tell us about it or just shut the hell up and hang your head in shame. Quit trying to convince us that you are on our side because it’s obvious after six and one half years that you are only on your own side

I’m not waiting for Santa or the Easter bunny or some puffed up blow hard to do something that should have been done years ago. Remember Joe, that once you’ve lost them you can never get them back. If one million of my countrymen were to storm the Capital tonight with torches and hay rakes and I were on the jury? I’d call it justifiable homicide and I’d applaud their actions for just doing rather than just talking about doing.

Quotes from:
Furore grows over CIA tapes
Al Jazeera, Dec 9th