It has been more than five years since LondonYank last posted a diary on DailyKos. I thought I would write one now as a retrospective on why I used to blog almost daily here. I believed then that it might matter. It didn't.
In 2004 I blogged almost daily about the fraudulent attempts of the Bush administration to fabricate justifications for the Iraq War. It was transparent to me then that Judith Miller of the New York Times was a shill, hanging with the Bushistas at the Aspen Institute, holidaying at Cheney's ranch, and writing to order about anthrax and chemical weapons. It was transparent to me that Ahmad Chalabi of the Iraqi National Congress was a CIA tool, convicted embezzler, fraudster and counterfeiter who had produced documents and witnesses to Saddam's tyranny for his paymasters in the Bush administration. It was transparent to me that the Niger uranium forgeries came from the same SISMI-Michael Ledeen intelligence channel that had been used to fabricate terrorism to order in Europe and the Middle East for more than three decades.
In the "you're either with us or with the terrorists" days following 9/11 it didn't matter that I was right. I was a conspiracy theorist. Our government wouldn't lie to us about something as important as war. DailyKos gave me a place to write the truth, where people who read it could consider it, and we could discuss it together. That was terribly important to me then, and I am grateful.
But almost exactly the same patterns of faked evidence and fraudulent blame are obvious over the past five Obama years in US war-mongering for Lebanon, Libya, Syria and Iran. And I shrug. I don't bother writing. I don't bother documenting the frauds. It won't matter any more now than it did under Bush.
When American presidents want a war, they get a war. The American people define themselves by having enemies. They need them. They will always create them to order as needed.
