catastrophile

It never ends.

In late January 2003, as Secretary of State Colin Powell prepared to argue the Bush administration's case against Iraq at the United Nations, veteran CIA officer Tyler Drumheller sat down with a classified draft of Powell's speech to look for errors. He found a whopper: a claim about mobile biological labs built by Iraq for germ warfare.

Drumheller instantly recognized the source, an Iraqi defector suspected of being mentally unstable and a liar. The CIA officer took his pen, he recounted in an interview, and crossed out the whole paragraph.

A few days later, the lines were back in the speech. Powell stood before the U.N. Security Council on Feb. 5 and said: "We have first-hand descriptions of biological weapons factories on wheels and on rails."
As much as I'd like to believe that something will come of all these after-the-fact revelations by people within the bureaucracy who watched the whole thing happen, I've come to the conclusion that something in the Bush-cult programming creates a mental block, a sort of automatic memory dump that blocks information like this from being absorbed at all, simultaneously triggering the vocalization center to randomly spout phrases such as "liberal media . . . 9/11 . . . freedom is on the march . . . you hate America" and the like.
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