Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

Senator Christopher Bond of Missouri supplied a note of unintended humor in a strong dissent by complaining that the inquiry "has become too embroiled in politics and partisanship to produce an accurate and meaningful report."

Bond's lament is highly laughable.  He is one of the brigade of martinets marching to the tune of pied piper Bush, who has proclaimed that in the war on terror you are either "with or against me" and that one had better not be against him because, after all, Bush receives his advice from direct communication with God.

The Cheney-Bush neocon brigade is known for slavish repetition rather than originality, so it came as anything but a surprise that Bond called the study of prewar assessments "a bad idea" and called for the committee to stop rehashing the past controversies and to focus instead on "the myriad of threats we face today."

How we recall the same sentiment being expressed in almost those identical words by Dick Cheney when, in the wave of fourth of July speeches and sainthood declarations from the media for Rudolph Guiliani, that an independent investigation be conducted into the causes of the 9/11 tragedies.

Cheney promptly turned thumbs down on such an idea.  We should, after all, concern ourselves with preventing such attacks in the future instead of looking to the past.  

So a building is burnt to the ground and the insurance company holding the vital policy asks for an investigation to determine how it all happened.  The rejoinder is, "No fair!  That already happened!  We're interested in preventing future fires!"  

Yes, more bright logic from a group of stumbling neocons frightened that the public may ultimately learn the truth about them and demand immediate answers.  This is a consequence they morbidly fear as they dodge responsibility in their never-ending snake dance of deceit.  

Congratulations, Senator Bond.  Rudy Guiliani could not have said it better.  Keep sticking those fingers in the dike to prevent the whole town from being flooded.  In this case the floodtide would come in the form of truth, sanity and reason, alien concepts to this group.  

Investigation?  You know that familiar refrain, "You're giving aid and comfort to the enemy!"  There's also the familiar corollary:  "Remember, the root cause of all this lies with the terrorists!"

The second point is true enough in a certain context, but one that the neocons do not wish for us to explore.  Enough independent investigation might establish that there are different terrorists out there serving as provocateurs that the neocons do not wish for us to know about since the results hit too close to home.

It is therefore understandable why Senator Bond needs to keep playing the partisan card with such unflagging repetition.  He is terrified of us exploring further.  

"Senator Rockefeller and I have very different views," Bond said at the end of the New York Times article.  "But we're trying to get these battles behind us."

Please note the loaded propaganda message.  It makes one wonder if Bond worked on his comments in concert with resident neocon propagandist Karl Rove.  Bond and the neocons certainly are "trying to get these battles behind us."

This is the neocon ploy.  Paint any investigative effort to get at the truth behind the Iraq War and 9/11 as invidious propaganda designed to shift concentration away from the war on terror.  

If enough Americans can grasp the destructive charlatanism in play here then the truth can eventually be known and Cheney and Bush, along with their accomplices, will ultimately have to begin paying the ultimate price for destructive global and domestic policies grounded in deceit.