06/22/05

The neocons who sold us this bill of goods don't care about reality: they don't even recognize the validity of the concept. Remember that White House aide who derided critics of the Bushian foreign policy as 'members of the reality-based community?' 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.' In the past, such people have been locked up for their own good -- and ours. Today, they are in the White House and the office of the vice president, where they are busy 'creating new realities.' The families of the 1,700 killed and tens of thousands horribly wounded have certainly had a whole new reality created for them -- and they don't like it...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=6392

from AntiWar.Com, by Justin Raimondo


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp