It helps to know that others are just as depressed and disturbed and alarmed as you are. Joan Walsh, the editor of Salon, the wonderful ezine, writes here about ther aftermath of 9/11, five years later. Walsh's big point: Bush used 9/11 to change the subject to Saddam Hussein and Iraq, and now, five years later, he is standing that on its head; lets change the subject from Iraq back to Osama Ben Laden.
Sometimes I think I am in a Mel Brooks movie.
What is doubly obscene about this is that today we have tens of thousands of dead (almost 2700 American soldiers, 46,000 Iraqi civilians, the 2800 people who died at the Twin Towers, the dead in Afghanistan) and we still are being lied to, misled, bullied, and abused.
Like Walsh, I am hopeful that the Congressional elections will turn this around but I am not going to be shocked if the propaganda push works. Right now it looks like it will fail but this is a very scary group in power in Washington. And a very scary mainstream media with proclivities to knuckle under in the face of White House pressure.
William Powers of the National Journal, argues that if the Democrats gain the House this fall, this will change the media climate of timidity toward the war in Iraq, opening the way toward much more aggressive coverage of the war and toward taking the Bush Admininistration and its lies apart.
