The Fix is On
So has anyone read this new Downing Street Memo the U.S. media has just discovered? I'm starting to wonder if maybe the B*sh administration might have manipulated information in order to drum up support for its personal - and potentially lucrative - vendetta with Iraq. Can you believe such a thing? Me neither. It's shocking but it just may be worth consideration. I mean, the very idea that Our Leader would have sinister motives absolutely gives me the heebie-jeebies. It's unthinkable. I feel as if my whole world is crumbling. Next you'll be telling me that the moon is made of green cheese and that Michael Jackson isn't a child molester.
Apologies. Especially for the jacko humor.
See, this memo had been out there for a month and a half now, although you wouldn't know it to turn on a television or pick up a paper around here. Now that it's been dusted off (and perhaps broken down into smaller words?) for us in the U.S, the media keep quoting the line "intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy" and what we think they mean is "B*sh mostly just mentioned the facts that supported his argument," which isn't an entirely nice thing to say, but neither is it unreasonable. If you're going to make an argument, you're going to center on the facts that support it, of course. So what's the big deal? The big deal is that "fixed" does not mean "fixated." It doesn't mean "centered on," like we think. This is a British memo, people. "Fixed," for the non-anglophiles out there, means; rigged, cheated, illegally manipulated in such a way as to give unfair advantage. The memo says that he lied about Iraq's threat; the intelligence was fundamentally altered so that it supported his argument.
What's the matter, not surprised? Of course not, me neither. We knew he had been cooking this thing up for months, even years. But obviously damn-near half this country still thinks B*sh is in the right, and they need to remove the blinders from their eyes, the plugs from their ears, and their heads from out of their their asses and finally join the rest of us in reality, as scary and f*cked up as it may be.
Apologies. Especially for the jacko humor.
See, this memo had been out there for a month and a half now, although you wouldn't know it to turn on a television or pick up a paper around here. Now that it's been dusted off (and perhaps broken down into smaller words?) for us in the U.S, the media keep quoting the line "intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy" and what we think they mean is "B*sh mostly just mentioned the facts that supported his argument," which isn't an entirely nice thing to say, but neither is it unreasonable. If you're going to make an argument, you're going to center on the facts that support it, of course. So what's the big deal? The big deal is that "fixed" does not mean "fixated." It doesn't mean "centered on," like we think. This is a British memo, people. "Fixed," for the non-anglophiles out there, means; rigged, cheated, illegally manipulated in such a way as to give unfair advantage. The memo says that he lied about Iraq's threat; the intelligence was fundamentally altered so that it supported his argument.
What's the matter, not surprised? Of course not, me neither. We knew he had been cooking this thing up for months, even years. But obviously damn-near half this country still thinks B*sh is in the right, and they need to remove the blinders from their eyes, the plugs from their ears, and their heads from out of their their asses and finally join the rest of us in reality, as scary and f*cked up as it may be.
posted by ab at 6/16/2005
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