I saw the trailer for a film coming out on the Pentagon Papers. What were the Pentagon papers? They were "a top-secret United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political-military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967." And what happened when they were released? "The most damaging revelation in the papers was that the U.S. had deliberately expanded its war with carpet bombing of Cambodia and Laos, coastal raids on North Vietnam, and Marine Corps attacks, none of which had been reported by media in the US.[5] The revelations widened the credibility gap between the US government and the people, hurting President Richard Nixon's war effort."
Imagine that. The truth actually hurting a war effort! Sure is twisted all around nowadays, ain't it? I wondered what would happen if a modern version of the Pentagon Papers came out today. What if they detailed a lying President hellbent on war to unleash death and destruction, putting hardships on millions? What if they told of an administration licking its chops on putting corporate profits above all else - most of all the American people whom they intended to plunder? What if they revealed a coordinated effort to lie and knowingly swindle a population by those sworn to serve it?
So, as the White House janitor, I did some digging into the bowels of the presidencies and found this scribble book left by the previous administration. Although written initially in crayon (Burnt Sienna if you're curious) I was able to transcribe it. The date was illegible but it's obviously composed sometime between 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.
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dear dairy,
it's me agin, gw! still president! uncle dick sez no way thay can take it away not never cuz those supreems wuz bot and paid fer. thats good cuz i always like diana ross. i just stil keep wurrying thay gonna kikk me out but then me had that same wurry all thru harverd and the toled me i maid it thru that ok!!! [His former Harvard Business School professor recalls George W. Bush not just as a terrible student but as spoiled, loutish and a pathological liar.]
now u knows dairy how we got super secrets that NOBODYS can ever knows. ["From the very first instance, it was about Iraq. It was about what we can do to change this regime," says Suskind. "Day one, these things were laid and sealed."] i like that wot cuz it makes me feel important when i do good lyin cuz lyin is what me do bestest!! thay sez i's dum but me gonna make dum kewl! won daze all ameruca will hates on them smart ppl we hate. so cant wate for that!!! [Bush is a classic insecure authoritarian who imposes humiliating tests of obedience on others in order to prove his superiority and their inferiority.]
wen we let them terror ppl attak us wuz gratest day of hole life! [Cheney’s admission that 9/11 caused him to reassess the threats to the nation only underscores how, for months, top officials had ignored warnings from the CIA and the NSC staff that urgent action was needed to preempt a major al-Qaeda attack] i toled my bestest lize ever and thay all luve me for it. member riting how me aproval rating was like one of bestest ever?? that meenz thay luv me lyin so now i can do what me alwayz wanted to do mostest, take all that oil from iraq!!! [He obtained one Pentagon document, dated March 5, 2001, and entitled "Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield contracts," which includes a map of potential areas for exploration]
i wants to bee scarredface and make the world mind! i realy, realy, realy, realy, realy wanna war iraq so i can be bad ass, get realy rich and be heroe to me frendz. [Time magazine reported that in March 2002 – a full year before the invasion – Bush outlined his real thinking to three U.S. senators, "Fuck Saddam," Bush said. "We're taking him out."] now dreemz cum truley! i hates ameruca and i hates all ppl that never voated fer me and theirs more of them than not so me gonna get them bak and kill kill kill them and act like axident afterwords [Bush said to Blair that he "thought it unlikely that there would be internecine warfare between the different religious and ethnic groups" in Iraq after the war. ] and give outs tons of money to frendz to help them get rich and me will got sum later two! ["Iraq for Sale" uncovers the connections between private corporations making a killing in Iraq (Blackwater, Halliburton/KBR, CACI and Titan) and the decision makers who allow them to do so.]
"I can outrun his loser ass!"
i member them army ppl hatin on me, tellin everywon that i wuz drunked coward only cuz i wuz and now me in charj and can blows them up all i wants!!!!! ["Those of us who were in the military wonder how it is that someone who is supposedly serving on active duty, having taken that oath, can miss a whole year of service without even explaining where it went,"] i's will blow offen thems arms and legs and make them cum bak and thanks me and seez if they keep up wen i goes joggin!!!! will be funnest war EVER!! ["Running with these two men is incredibly inspirational for me. And it should be inspirational to anybody who has been dealt a tough hand. Sometimes in life you get dealt a hand that you didn't expect to play, and they got dealt a tough hand, and they're playing it with all their soul."]
rite now i stil 'deciden' wot if i wants war or not. uuuuh, yah!!!!!!!!!!!! but we lyin good to stupid amerucan biches, pretendin like is so hard makin up me mind! [The Bush-Blair 2003 Iraq memo was a secret memo of a meeting between American President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair that took place on January 31, 2003 in the White House. It purportedly showed that the Bush administration had already decided on the US invasion of Iraq at that point.] uncle dick sez all we gotta do is say i got bad lice from ppl around me (or sumthin like that) [Woodward describes Cheney as a "powerful, steamrolling force obsessed with Saddam and taking him out."] and ppl will luvs me no matter wot if i jess pretends i jess hates goin ta war! [The president had hoped Saddam could be removed in some way short of war. But early in 2002, Woodward reports, the CIA concluded they could not overthrow Saddam..."What was your reaction that the CIA couldn't overthrow Saddam? And the president said one word. 'Darn.'"]
uncle dick sez he never laff so hard wen goin round tellin ppl them guyz on 7/11 was like working for saddam and shit [WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Vice President Dick Cheney said Thursday the evidence is "overwhelming" that al Qaeda had a relationship with Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq, and he said media reports suggesting that the 9/11 commission has reached a contradictory conclusion were "irresponsible." ] and we made that darkie general say how saddam gonna blow hole world up and we wuz all sittin round tv laffin so hard even leeza rice and she dummass darkie to!!!! i hates on ameruca more then anything i can thinks of and me gonna fukk it up good fore i go! [He also says that President Bush was disengaged, at least on domestic issues, and that disturbed him. And he says that wasn't his experience when he worked as a top official under Presidents Nixon and Ford] by my fruity thay shall knows me! i will be revenjer for them not luvin me!!
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Keep the good lies coming!
America has revealed herself as a nation without integrity. She knows that's a futureless path but her public face is one of relentless optimism. Yes, the 2010 Pentagon papers have been released all along, hiding in plain sight. Nobody cared. After all, who can complain about leaders lying to them when you want to be lied to in the first place?
The girls don't seem to care tonight
As long as the mood is right
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