Unqualified Offerings Is Shrill

We welcome Jim Henley, Grand Heresiarch and High Tentacled One of the Ancient, Occult, and Hermetic Order of the Shrill:

Ia Henley!! Ia Fhtagn!!: Outraged Moderate got hold of Steven Cambone’s handwritten notes of his meeting with Donald Rumsfeld from the afternoon of September 11, 2001. The notes confirm CBS News’ report of September 4, 2002 that, at that meeting, Rumsfeld was already thinking of using the atrocities as an excuse to go to war with Iraq. It’s important to stress: Rumsfeld is not wondering if Iraq did it; he’s wondering if it can look enough like Iraq did it to pin the blame there.

It can’t be stressed enough: the Pentagon was aflame; there was smoke pouring from a hole in the Pennsylvania fields and the World Trade Center complex was belching its ghastly cloud, and already our rulers were thinking not, who is to blame? but what can we get away with? What will the still-bubbling fat of the murdered serve to cook?

Impeach George W. Bush. Impeach Richard Cheney. Impeach Donald Rumsfeld. Do it now.

Comments

[Tad Brennan]

I don't much like that line about the fat of the murdered, but, yeah, otherwise that's about the size of it. They had a personal score to settle, just a Bush family thing against Saddam, and they knew that the country would never allow them to spill our blood and treasure to satisfy their personal grudges.

So when a real tragedy struck the country, they immediately saw in it a way to advance their personal agenda. By lying about the connection between 9/11 and Iraq. They knew it wasn't related, but they knew that with enough lying they could scare the country into thinking it was. "Related and NOT," as Cambone's notes say, all-caps in the original.

Yeah, it's hard to over-emphasize how utterly immoral, criminal, and despicable they were and are. (But I'd rather do it without invoking images that might offend the relatives of 9/11 victims).

[Frank D Shannon]

I thought it a clever vivid and appropriate turn of phrase. Oh well no accounting for taste.