Any questions?

We are now completely through the looking glass. Up is down. Wrong is right. And only the chosen few have the answers. The rest of must be silent.

Wednesday, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld accused his critics of “moral and intellectual confusion,” a shameless assault on countless elected officials from both major parties and a vast majority of Americans. Those who doubt him are assisting the rise of a new brand of fascism, he explained.

President Bush followed on Thursday by telling us all that we did not start or choose this war. We are defending ourselves against the ruthless forces that attacked and killed 3,000 of our citizens. We must defeat totalitarianism, the President warned.

To review:

The people who planned a war by ignoring and overruling the advice of military leaders and advisors are brilliant. Those who question them are intellectually confused.

The deaths of at least 45,613 civilians in a country which had no involvement in the 2001 terrorist attacks represent payback for the 3,000 killed in the attacks. The folks responsible for the attacks are still at large, and that is okay. Those who question this are morally confused.

We attacked the aforementioned country, a secular regime which had not attacked or planned to attack us, after falsely alleging they had stockpiles of forbidden weapons and connections to fundamentalist terrorist networks. But we didn’t choose to.

A corrupt nationalist administration, which first achieved power through a fraudulent election, regularly suppresses human rights and the freedom of speech, controls large portions of the media, aligns itself firmly with corporate power, uses opponents as scapegoats, and is rampant with cronyism is busy fighting against fascism. Their critics are the fascists.

The President who repeatedly asserts that he has no obligation to follow laws he dislikes and that he may imprison anyone at anytime for any reason tells us we must conquer totalitarianism.

Any questions? Feel free to keep them to yourself.



For more, check out the incomparable Keith Olbermann at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12131617/#060830a