From outside the box

Scott McLellan is pure scum. This guy helped to sell the very spin, lies, and cover ups he is now exposing in his book. This mea culpa/profit venture may cleanse his conscious as well as fill his coffers, but it will not change the fact that Scott was as much a part of the most costly American hoax to ever be perpetrated on it's citizens as was Colin Powell and every other insider who took part in this mass deception.

Remember Robert Kardashian, the lawyer who helped to get OJ Simpson acquitted of murder? After all was said and done, Mr. Kardashian said in a 1996 ABC interview that he now questioned Mr. Simpson's innocence: ''I have doubts. The blood evidence is the biggest thorn in my side; that causes me the greatest problems. So I struggle with the blood evidence.'' Scott's doing the same thing, killing two birds with one book....cleanse the consciousness and make a few million.

Isn't it a funny thing that many liberals knew at the time what Scott is now saying about the lies behind the selling of the war as well as the outing of Valerie Plame? Now mind you, the liberals I speak of are not Washington insiders, we are not politicians, mind readers, conspiracy theorist's, or computer hackers....some of us are simple working folks from a little town in Northern California. And yet everything we said (along with millions of other democrats) about how this administration handled the invasion of Iraq, how they were lying and manipulating the facts, is slowly coming to light. I've got old copies of letters to the editor to prove it.

There will be more Scott McLellans and George Tenent's stepping forward in the years to come. The whole truth will come out. And the funny thing is, when it does, and when there is not a shadow of doubt as to what really happened, those patriotic intellectuals who are still engaged in defending Bush's policies and lies will attempt to change their own personal history. They will say that they knew about the cover ups and lies and that they never really condoned the war, they were only supporting the war on principle because it was the best way at the time to deal with terrorism. And they will convince themselves to believe that. They will have to, how else will they live with themselves if they believe that they are the ones who helped to keep the war going. How could they sleep when the dots are finally connected and the truth is known that trillions of dollars have been wasted, thousands of lives destroyed, limbs lost, suicides, insanity, all the evils and horrors of war, was all for NOTHING? I'll tell you how....you change your history. Or you do like Scott McLellan and say that you were a victim, the people you trusted betrayed you. And when you do, I will be there to remind you that many of us were not fooled, that we saw thru this hoax from the very beginning. And we spoke out as you called us unpatriotic and accused us of siding with the terrorist's.

Right now, many of you are desperately clinging to the hopes of some semblance of a victory in Iraq, although you cannot clearly define what victory is or even who we are fighting. I'd bet that many of you are beginning to come to terms with the ugly truth and are secretly hoping a democrat wins the presidency, gets us out of Iraq, and then, whatever happens over there (as a result of us going in, not leaving), you will be able to blame that president and say that if we had just given it more time or had McCain been elected, we could have finished this thing, we could have had victory! In fact, if your smart, you'll all vote democrat, otherwise you just may have to deal with the uglier reality of trying to win an unwinnable fiasco of a war as well as all of the side effects....escalating debt, recession, more American death's, and the fact that no matter what we accomplish military wise in Iraq, they will always be a fundamentalist nation and they will in time reject any kind of governemnt that resembles democracy or attempts to give freedom to all of it's citizens.

As a liberal I am more than willing to be the fall guy, to be part of the change that gets us out of Iraq, regardless of the consequences that follow, and allow you right wingers to wave your fingers in disgust for the rest of time, and talk about how close we were to winning the war had Barak and his merry band of unpatriot's not intervened and caused our defeat. We are willing to give that to you. Somebodies got to save you from yourselves.