Press Secretary Dana Perino: Spinning Lies for the Butcher of Baghdad

Posted 4 December 2007
Every American of conscience should read Michael Massing's latest article in the New York Review of Books. It's titled, "Iraq: The Hidden Human Costs." As Mr. Massing makes clear, the human costs of Bush's butchery in Iraq have remained hidden largely because there are "limitations imposed by the political climate in which the [mainstream] press works."
Massing attributes the reluctance of editors and producers to print and broadcast news about Bush's butchery in Iraq to the fact that "most Americans simply do not want to know too much about the acts being carried out in their name." Or, as Scott Ritter has put it, "very few Americans function as citizens anymore."
But, quoting from Generation Kill, by Evan Wright, Massing describes the initial American onslaught on Nasiryah: "During our thirty-six hours outside Nasiryah they [Marines] have already lobbed an estimated 2,000 [artillery] rounds into the city."

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Similar atrocities in Iraq prompted Jeffery Carazales, a lance corporal from Texas, to rage: "I think it's bullshit how these fucking civilians are dying!" "They are worse off than the guys that are shooting at us. They don't even have a chance. Do you think the people at home are going to see this - all these women and children we're killing? Fuck no. Back home they're glorifying this motherfucker. I guarantee you. Saying our president is a fucking hero for getting us into this bitch. He ain't even a real Texan." [Massing]
Not even a "real" Texan? Hell, we first must question whether either Bush or Cheney are even "real" -- by which I mean "decent"-- human beings. After all, do you personally know anyone who could lie about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and ties to al Qaeda in order to remove Saddam Hussein from power for the sake of oil and Israel -- especially if he knew that his invasion would inevitably blow off the limbs of hundreds, if not thousands, of three-year-old girls and split open the skulls of hundreds, if not thousands more?
No, of course not. Unless, of course, you happen to know personally one of America's despicable neoconservatives, one of America' crackpot Christian Zionists or Bush's latest press secretary, Dana Perino. It was Ms. Perino, who, on November 30th, placed her own humanity in a lock box when she offered journalist Helen Thomas the following lie: "To suggest that we, the United States, are killing innocent people is just absurd and very offensive."
Although such lies might still work with many loyal saps in the Republican Party and the many Americans who have jettisoned citizenship for shopping and television addictions, the rest of the world knows the truth. And it is not amused! Unfortunately, all Americans, not just the stupid and immoral ones, will have to pay for the world's condemnation.

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